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On Thursday the children made bouquets of flowers for their mum using a selection of dried foliage and flowers. They then carefully sketched their beautiful creations. We hope that all of the mums enjoyed receiving them.

In RE our topic is Desert to Garden and we have been talking about spring time and how things begin to grow around us. We went on a walk around school looking for signs of spring and saw lots of beautiful flowers, plants and trees. We remembered how Lent is a time when we grow more like Jesus and…

This week we used our fine motor skills for crushing and chopping.  We prepared vegetable sticks and combined ingredients for homemade houmous.  In the afternoon the children ventured to the big school field for a picnic of veg sticks and houmous dip!  So many children did well for trying foods…

What a wonderful science week have had!  The children have looked a the differences between different animals linking with our Hattie Peck. - The Journey Home text. We have been busy planting and vegetable seeds. We also took advantage of a very windy day by making our own kites and investigating…

As part of British Science Week, we explored how to ‘unboil’ and egg led by Dr Heike Arnold from the University of Liverpool.

We looked at the structure of an egg and how it reacts when different substances are added to it.

Dr Arnold then demonstrated how to dissolve an egg using drain…

Children from Year 3 came to this afternoon’s curriculum governors meeting to talk about their learning in Religious Education.  Mrs McIntyre and Mrs Sothern conducted a pupil book study and the children shared their knowledge and understanding.  Governors commented that they had learned new…

This week is British Science Week and we are noticing how science is all around us. We have been looking at animals and discussing how they have similarities and differences. The children have enjoyed playing a matching game - finding the halves of the animal faces and identifying each animal. We…

Yesterday we were scientists.  We explored what happened to raisins when they are submerged in fizzy water.  We watched them dance and it was fascinating! The we predicted how many cotton wool balls we could fit into a shot glass filled to the top with water and we were amazed to discover that we…

Continuing on from last week we developed our ball skills by bouncing and catching the ball before travelling whilst bouncing and controlling the ball.  

In History, we looked at where Baghdad was built and why this location was chosen.

Using historical accounts, we designed our own version of what Baghdad may have looked like.

Fruit kebabs were on the food technology menu this week.  The children chopped a variety of fruit and then carefully created their own fruit kebabs.  

The children in nursery enjoyed playing parachute games and relaxing in the hammock under the sunshine this week. They also searched for minibeasts and played imaginatively with one another.