Groups of tens and ones
Our Year 1 and 2 children are busy developing their understanding of place value at the moment. They have been learning how to groups tens and ones to help themselves solve problems with number.
Today they played a game when one child created a representation of a number less than 50 using base…
Art and Design - Map it out
Our art and design project linked very well to our Geography based topic called ‘Our Local Area’ as we investigated maps as a stimulus for drawing.
The children began by looking at a series of images of maps and sorted them into groups. They sorted them into: old and new, real and imaginary,…
Counting and recognising numbers
Our Reception children do lots of counting and recognising numbers activities indoors and outdoors as they learn to develop their knowledge. Here are a few photos of a few activities they’ve done recently…
Doubles and Near Doubles Fun
We love maths! Our Year 1 and 2 children have been learning doubles and near doubles and then applying their knowledge to help them solve addition and subtraction problems.
In these photos (taken over a few days) you can see the children playing different games. The first two games asked them…
Repeating Patterns
Our Reception children have been improving their fine motor skills and developing their understanding of patterns. They have been talking about shapes and colours and created their own repeating patterns.
Diwali 2025
We learnt all about the Hindu festival of lights called Diwali. We read a beautiful book called One Diwali Day by Dev Kothari and illustrated by Aditi Anand which created lots of questions and discussion. Our year 1 and 2 children then wrote facts and created fact files whilst our Reception…
Maths - Nets of 3D Shapes
Upper School have been learning about 3D shapes in our Maths lessons and today we explored how to make a 3D shape using a net. The children enjoyed cutting out, scoring and folding to create a range of shapes including octahedrons and tetrahedrons which were very tricky to put together!
Science-Electrical Circuits and Diagrams
Today Upper School explored and recapped their learning from Middle School about how to make a simple circuit. They chose equipment by themselves and investigated how to make a bulb and a motor work. There was lots of discussion and diagnostics when some of the circuits didn’t appear to work. Some…
English-Street Child Story Predictions
This week, the children have been reading the last few chapters of Street Child by Bertie Doherty. We have particularly explored comprehension of the vocabulary and inference of a character’s behaviour. We have also worked on how to make realistic predictions about what might happen next in the…
Our Local Area 2025
In our geography lessons we have been learning about our local area. After lots of different learning finding out where in the world we live, looking at aerial photos and doing activities the children have drawn a map of our local area.
PE- Hockey Autumn 2025
The class have been learning the skills of hockey for the last 5 weeks. They have made huge progress and have begun to play small hockey games now where they have shown their skills of dribbling, tackling and shooting the ball into the goal. Well done Year 5/6!
English-Street Child Descriptive Writing
Over the past couple of English sessions, the Upper School children have been preparing a descriptive narrative through reading, role play and exploring vocabulary.
We read a chapter of Street Child and chose scenes to turn into freeze frames (see the gallery). When the freeze frames were…