Week beginning 7th April
England have had an amazing final week to our half term full of learning and celebrations! In Science, the class planted seeds which we are excited to watch grow when we return from the holidays. The children also really enjoyed taking part in our annual Easter Egg decorating competition, as well as watching a film together in their PJs to celebrate working as a class to fill our marble jar.
Have a lovely Easter!
Week beginning 31st March
Year 1 have really enjoyed their STEM themed Enrichment Week activities! On Monday, England class had a fantastic Forest School session with Mr Elliott exploring structure in nature. On Tuesday, we learned about the solar system and the life of astronauts, completing an astronaut agility course and creating astronaut badges. On Wednesday, the class had an amazing time working with visitors from Kielder Observatory to experience a Planetarium! On Thursday, we recreated constellations using marshmallows and spaghetti.
Great work England Class!
Week beginning 17th March 2025
This week England class have been consolidating their learning in Maths through a range of board games. The children have enjoyed played snakes and ladders, noughts and crosses and 'bus races' practicing a range of mathematical skills including counting, doubling, adding and subtracting. The class have showed great team spirit and have supported one another to be successful in each game. Well done England!
Week beginning 10th March 2025
England Class were scientists this week exploring the question 'How do I make an object move further away?'. They used their knowledge of the forces 'push' and 'pull' to explore how to make a tennis ball move further and further away from them, and used a cone to measure the distance.
Week beginning 3rd March 2025
Our school celebrated World Book Day on Thursday! England enjoyed a wide range of activities including sharing a story with children from South America (Year 6) and making story sticks about an adventure a stick could go on! The children also really enjoyed sharing their homework challenges of recreating their favourite book covers.
It was so lovely to see the children's creativity and love for reading shine throughout the day.
Week beginning 17th February
England have had a great week! Highlights have included learning to perform a poem called 'Salad Days' for our annual school oracy competition where the children were very supportive to each other as they performed. We have also learned about Martin Luther King in History, and conducted a science experiment to explore waterproof materials.
Well done England!
Week beginning 10th February
This week England class were lucky to receive a visit from author Adam Bushnell. The class really enjoyed the range of creative activities they completed in the session including creating puzzle poetry based on Antarctic animals and designing their own ice queen. The session was very inspiring and the class are excited to use this creative inspiration to write their own stories based on their ice queens next week.
An added bonus to this exciting afternoon was a chance to say hello to Adam's pet tortoise Jet who had come along for the day!
Week beginning 3rd February
England Class have been exploring the question 'Was it always easy for Jesus to show friendship'? this week in RE. As part of our learning, the class thought about characteristics of a good friend: What do they do and what do they not do?
The class shared their ideas using post it notes to create a 'model' class friend that they can aspire to be.
Week beginning 20th January
We have had a fantastic week in England class learning about a wide range of topics as always. In English, we wrote our imaginative innovations based on George and the Dragon including amazing adjectives in our work such as 'ferocious' and 'fierce'. In French, we enjoyed learning another French nursery rhyme and in Art the class embraced the opportunity to make some 3D drawings by folding and curling paper in imaginative ways.
Well done England!
Week Beginning 13th January
We have had a lovely week in England learning about a wide range of topics. In Art we completed an artist study about Christopher Wren, exploring the buildings he designed and sharing opinions about each example. In English, we continued our writing about George and the Dragon, starting to change the characters to make the story our own. We have especially enjoyed developing our targeted throwing skills as part of our 'Ball Skills' unit.
On Friday, the class celebrated filling their 'marble jar' with movie afternoon wearing pyjamas!
Have a lovely weekend!
Week beginning 6th January
Welcome back! We have a lovely week settling back into class and sharing what we have been up to over Christmas.
In a very exciting turn of events on Monday morning, we discovered some dragon footprints and eggs in our sandpit! The children have since created the best descriptive word bank for dragons I have ever seen! I hope they share some of their ideas with you!
We also had a visit from one of our parents who shared their experience of working as a paramedic. The children were able to look inside and ambulance and find out what was there. They looked great in the paramedic hard hats and got to find out how people could be moved in and out of the ambulance.
Happy Weekend!