Blog by Penny Kemp

We have been doing some great Easter fun activities in class and at the fantastic Bunny Drive organised by or Friends of Inskip group. Thank you so much to friends who work hard raising money for our school and giving our children lots of fun experiences.

This week we read a great story told through letters as a teacher asks her class to write to her and convince her that they are the best person to take the class’s pet rabbit home for the holidays. 
 

Our Reception children drew pictures of rabbits and explained how they would care for a…

This week Leah and Ellie were are our certificate winners for super learning, well done girls. 

We have been doing lots of maths whilst decorating for Easter this week. The children have sorted eggs into different groups by colour, size, speckles, not speckles and other ways! They have improved their fine motor skills by picking up and placing the buttons on the pathways from the eggs making…

Our Reception children have made some beautiful Easter cards. After learning about why we celebrate Easter they made a scene celebrating new life. 
 

Here are a few photos of the children starting the finger painting …

Well done to our certificate winners this week!

Year 2 are learning about multiplication and division in maths at the moment. This week they were exploring arrays. 
 

Our Reception children have been very busy learning this week. They have been doing all sorts of different activities here is a photo of them after they had created a whole world which they used to tell some fantastic stories.

Well done Reception superstars!

After learning about the tradition of Mothering Sunday we talked about how and why we celebrate our Mums now. The children made their Mums a special card with some lovely messages in them ready to give them on Sunday.

Happy Mother’s Day to all the wonderful mums out there. 
 

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We had so much fun this year, we enjoy reading so much that it was a treat to devote a whole day to the joy of books!

We began our day by sharing our favourite books that we had brought from home with the whole class. After we’d shared them the children chose to either draw the front cover of…

Inspired by the book ‘Billy and the Beast’ that we are reading the children have written their own recipes similar to the one we think the Beast was following to make his Terrible Soup. The children have been learning how to spell regular and irregular plurals and were asked to include great…

We love learning new sounds in Lower School, we have phonics sessions every morning and then practice our new phonics learning all through the day.