Shackadell

We had the best time visiting Hertfordshire Zoo. First we enjoyed the dinosaur trail. It was really exciting seeing all of the life-sized dinosaurs – even though some of them […] […]

Shackadell class loved celebrating World Book Day. The whole school theme was “Around the world”. The children were each given a passport and visited different countries in different classrooms throughout […] […]

We have been thinking about real life superheroes and people who help us. We have been focussing on police officers, firefighters and medics. We had to solve a crime in our classroom. […] […]

We are going to be doing the Big School Birdwatch soon so we have been learning to identify different types of birds. We have been using some of our bird […] […]

We have been enjoying our superhero topic over the last few weeks. We have had a great time creating our own superhero characters, even designing our masks and choosing the colours for our capes. […] […]

Shackadell class have loved maths week! We started the week in our whole school assembly thinking about all of the different ways that we use maths every day. We started […] […]

This week we have really enjoyed reading ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’ by Jill Tomlinson. The story was a great follow on from learning about celebrations that […] […]

We have been exploring lots of different books in our class already. We love drawing club and have been going on our own story adventures. We enjoy reading books during […] […]

We have been reading one of our favourite books ‘The Gruffalo’ by Julia Donaldson. We have created a 3D story maps to help us to retell the story. We also […] […]

We use a wide variety of construction materials both inside and outside. When we are constructing with different materials, we are practising lots of different skills. We are planning, designing, […] […]

We absolutely love learning in our outdoor spaces. We have been enjoying our Forest School sessions already and have been very busy exploring our school grounds. We love to learn […] […]

We have already been very busy painting, drawing and writing for many different purposes. Some of us are mark making in our role play, such as when we are pretending […] […]

We have loved welcoming our new children to Shackadell class! It has been lovely to see so many smiling faces and the children have settled well into school life at […] […]

We love our daily maths lessons in Shackadell class. This year we have really been mastering our numbers and having a deep understanding of each of them. We use lots […] […]

We have been thinking a lot about our local area and the environment we live in. We have been talking about the kinds of plants and animals that live in […] […]

Recently we have loved the freezing cold weather and we have been enjoying looking at the ice in our outdoor classroom so we decided to make our very own ice decorations. […] […]

Today in ‘Drawing Club’ we drew some dragons after reading ‘Room on the broom’ by Julia Donaldson. After lunch, a very special visitor arrived in our classroom…Daisy the dragon!! We […] […]