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Maths Fun!
In Upper School each child regularly uses MyMaths and Mathletics. These are online learning tools to support mathematics learnt in lessons and provide a different format for learning which some children prefer or find challenging, as it provides a different format to our usual textbooks. All the…
Our Church is a Special Place
As part of our RE unit this half term, 'Why is the church a special place for Christians?' Revd Paul invited us to visit him at St. Peter's Church. It was a lovely sunny day and our walk down through the village was enlivened by a cat who walked in front of us all the way down from our school…
Superheroes!
As you know, Lower School and Middle School are having a classroom swap over and while that all happens I have been teaching the children in the hall. The theme of our two days together is Superheroes and we began the day by exploring what a superhero is or can be. We read the wonderful story of…
Superheroes!
As you know, Lower School and Middle School are having a classroom swap over and while that all happens I have been teaching the children in the hall. The theme of our two days together is Superheroes and we began the day by exploring what a superhero is or can be. We read the wonderful story of…
Ducklings!
We were so fortunate to have a visit from Leo's lovely Indian-Runner duck ducklings!
These cute little ducks definitely lived up to their name... they really could run - and fast!
Children loved giving these ducks a stroke and asking questions about them to Leo and Mrs Wright. Some children…
Save our Planet
On Tuesday, children had a themed day where we learned all about how we can help the planet.
We began by learning about fractions, decimals and percentages used in lots of different facts about the planet. Children went on a treasure hunt to find each percentage, fraction or decimal on a pebble…
Investigating Electricity
The children have begun looking at electricity in their Science lessons.
On Monday we investigated different electrical items and asked lots of quesitons about them:
How does it work?
How does the electric get into the screen?
Why does it need a battery if it gets plugged in?
We tried to…
Maths Challenge
This morning the Year 5s were set a challenge to work out what each letter stood for in the list of number sentences given to them on the whiteboard.
through the use of their knowledge of the times tables and logical thinking, they worked brilliantly to work it out. Can you work them out?
Mrs…
Capital and lower case letters ...
Our Reception and Year 1 children have been looking closely at capital and lower case letters using geoboards.
Afternoon tea ...
What better way to practise our adding more and taking away skills than doing it with delicious looking pretend cakes?
The children in Lower School have been using the cakes this week to practise number skills, sorting skills and using money.
The Trojan Wars
In Upper School we have been learning about the war between the Greeks and the Trojans. This was a bitter war lasting more than ten years started when Helen (married to Menelaus, a Greek King) fled to Troy with Paris (a Trojan Prince). The battle that followed is said to have involved a thousand…
National Parks
Continuing from our work on the Lake District National Park, we researched some other national parks in the UK to compare them.
We split into groups of 3 and researched a different National Park each:
- The Peak District
- The Yorkshire Dales
- The Cairngorms
- Snowdonia
- The Norfolk…
