We had a wonderful Christingle service at school. In the morning we worked together to create our own Christingles. Danes class supported their buddies in Shackadell and the rest of […] […]
We had a wonderful time sharing our Nativity service with so many parents and carers in our school community. ‘The Raggedy King’ was performed by our Reception and year 6 […] […]
We love learning about numbers and patterns. We have lots of maths opportunities in our classroom environment at all times. We are really good at subitising, counting, sorting, weighing, measuring […] […]
We were excited to welcome a special visit from some feathered friends this week! We really enjoyed learning all about the birds and were even brave enough to handle them. […] […]
Today we went to the church together to have a remembrance service. We were able to spend time reflecting on the sacrifices of the service men of our country and […] […]
We had an amazing time going out on our first school trip! It was really exciting to go in a minibus to St Christophers School and meet all of their […] […]
We have been enjoying lots of Julia Donladson’s books and have had a fantastic time learning about the Gruffalo. We can join in with the familiar refrains and have used […] […]
We have been enjoying exploring Autumn. We have been collecting objects which show that the season has moved into Autumn now. We have been using these items in our child-initiated […] […]
How wonderful it was to be able to come together in church this morning to celebrate our Harvest Festival. For our youngest children, this was their very first visit to […] […]
We have had a brilliant time exploring colour mixing. We really enjoyed the book ‘Mixed’ by Arree Chung. It is a story all about how colour became unhappy living with […] […]
We have really loved having the opportunity to learn outdoors. It is so good for us to practise our gross motor skills. We are able to explore the sand, water, […] […]
As we start the new year we have been thinking about our feelings and emotions. We really enjoyed ‘The colour monster’ by Anna Llenas. We collected lots of colours around […] […]
The children have enjoyed exploring the indoor and outdoor classrooms. They have been getting to know each other, the rules and routines of the classrooms and how to look after […] […]
Every year children from Shackadell and Danes are paired up as buddies. We have had such a wonderful year together, playing, enjoying our lunches together and having weekly buddy reading […] […]
As part of our curriculum ambitions in the EYFS, Shackadell class had to plan a fundraising event. The children really wanted to raise funds to help look after some of […] […]
Platinum Jubilee celebrations were in full here at Aston. What a delight it was to see all the children having a wonderful time celebrating this historic event! I am sure […] […]
We had a wonderful morning sharing in our Easter breakfast together. We talked about the Easter story and why it is such an important date in the Christian calendar. We […] […]
Today we were happy to invite our Mum’s, Grandma’s and all of the special women in our lives to a special service. We sang songs to our families and had […] […]
Today we had a special collective worship where we dressed our Christmas tree. Mrs Holmes told us a story while year 6 dressed the tree. This is always a special […] […]
On Tuesday 16th November Bishop Michael Beasley, the Bishop of Hertford came to visit our school. We had asked Bishop Michael if he would like to come and bless our […] […]