What great fun the children had on their first trip to the Denes!  The children explored the local environment looking for signs of autumn. Jacob – “The leaves have fallen on the floor.” Rebecca – “They changed colour to red and brown and yellow!” Alana – “We might find some conkers!” Orla- “Trees are… Read more »

In Year 6, we have produced some incredible Poppy artwork to reflect the importance of Remembrance, which we are very proud of. We also create poppy pebbles which we have put in the KS2 garden to mark Remembrance.

This morning, Year 6 have been studying the Holocaust. We began with a social experiment. The children with blue eyes were separated from those that are non-blue eyed. The children with blue eyes remained in the classroom (and watched a cartoon). The children with non-blue eyes were given a blue spot with a cross on… Read more »

As part of a whole school Geography Mapping curriculum day, Year 1 spent the day learning all about where in the world we live. First, we looked at the countries and flags of the United Kingdom and had fun playing ‘Pin the place on the map’ – seeing who could get the closest to pinning… Read more »

As a school, we embed The Global Goals for Sustainable Development within our curriculum. These are goals agreed by leaders from 193 countries all over the world. The aim is for everyone to work together to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They address global challenges we face such as: poverty, inequality,… Read more »

We had an amazing morning building our own map of the UK. First a group of us marked out the outline in chalk. Then we added the countries in white. Next the regions in red. The counties were yellow, cities in green (with London as the capital in gold), landmarks in pink, rivers and seas… Read more »

The children thought carefully about how to prepare; first they washed their hands thoroughly and then put on aprons to protect their uniform. They used their senses to explore all of the vegetables and the stock cubes – words including: “Cold, hard, juicy, shiny, yummy, wet, seedy and heavy,” were used. The children carefully used… Read more »

Today, the children received a letter from the Class Teddy. He told them he kept getting lost in the classroom and asked what the children could do to help. The children decided he needed a map so we explored different types, for example: Google Maps, Ordinance Survey Maps and Treasure Maps. We worked as a… Read more »

What a brilliant end to our Maths morning with the focus on division! We accepted a division challenge from Mrs Perry. Using our understanding to solve calculations, we searched the classroom looking for the correct codes. Then using QR codes, turned the answers into letters to work out a riddle. The answer was Division is… Read more »

On Friday 16th October we watched a short animated version of the story ‘The Promise’ by Nicola Davies (see link below) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0xPoOI4uUrN8FQYrrCs1gQ We used the video to prompt lots of discussion and art work around the idea of ‘green spaces’ and the many benefits they have. We have learnt how spending time in green spaces… Read more »