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The children created a story map about what was encountered by Arthur following his journey from his town to the home of Thor.

The cubes have created lots of excitement in class and today the children were trying to build a tower that was taller than the teacher! Lots of great mathematical language was used and the children had lots of fun. 

Super creative work going on today in Reception.  Nala has built a replica of London. 

Year 1-Science- Which materials are waterproof and which are not?

We have been looking at different materials this afternoon to see which ones are waterproof and not. “It’s making a hole” “the water is coming through the paper.” We looked at the following materials to carry out our experiment-…

Year 1-Computing

This week the children will be using the chromebooks in class. They will learn how to develop their mouse skills. The children will use the sketchpad app to design their own picture using click and drag skills. 

Today in the outdoor resource are the children are investigating classroom objects to see if they float or sink in a bowl of water.  They were very excited to see if their predictions were correct or not! 

This week we have been looking for patterns around us including patterns in stories and songs. The children used chalks to create different patterns including spots, swirls, lines and zigzags. We then created patterns using peg boards and numicon. Together we also used lummi sticks to repeat…

We started our new DT unit by making catapults. It was a very tricky task and we worked so hard to make brilliant working models.

Today in our Nutrition unit, the children made pitta crisps. They used the bridge technique to cut their pitta bread into triangular shaped pieces and then mixed them in olive oil and mixed herbs before they were baked in the oven. Prior to the practical part of the lesson we discussed how crisps…

Today we have consolidated our understanding of mixed numbers and improper fractions.

The children worked in pairs to match the correct representations together.

Following on from our work on the Naughty Bus, today the children worked independently to build their own road and then placed passengers at the bus stop waiting for the bus. A lovely example of children developing their skills through child initiated play, highlighting the importance of allowing…

Today we visited English Martyrs’s church to see the crib with the three Kings now in attendance.