Water play is a great way for children to experience a huge range of learning. In this photo you can see: children learning about a submarine with the help of an adult, children exploring capacity by collaborating together, children exploring the flow of water using pipes and gutters and children exposed to the language of capacity on the vocabulary stones! 

This young lady has created her own fruits and vegetables (based on The Enormous Turnip) to play a ten frame game with her friends! We have been learning about addition and subtraction over the last few weeks and the children interpret and apply their learning in such creative ways.

A huge part of our pedagogy in the EYFS is to develop and foster a love of story, reading and language. This photo shows just one way we engage our children on their journey. The boys are retelling the story of The Enormous Turnip using the story map. 

Have a listen to Dogger written by Shirley Hughes on our story at bedtime or anytime section of the video resource centre :) 

Year 6 have been mastering the art, this week, of precise length and angle measurement to construct triangles and quadrilaterals. A big well done on their fantastic engagement and collaboration. 

Another huge congratulations to the...

Year 4 Centaurs!

Well done and great Doodling. Is this the start of a strong winning streak..? We shall see! 

This week the children compared the past and present playing with some very old toys. They compared present toy cars with past toy cars and explored the different types of toys children played with in the past. 

The children also continued to enjoy our focus on traditional tales and during our adult input built the 3 little pigs strong houses made from duplo bricks. There was no chance of the big bad wolf being able to blow those houses down! 

Woohoo!

What a celebration today! Three young people have worked so hard this week and proved how much of a superstar they are! We’ve seen better focus, improved presentation and better learning attitudes too. We can’t forget the young lady who also displayed some fabulous learning behaviours linked to our growth guide by making links in her learning.

The thing that made me the happiest however was seeing so many people reach the finish line for reading at least 5 times at home this week. Can we have everyone making it there next week!

 Remember, reading is the most important skill to have as it opens up the world to you so let’s get reading and all make it to the finish line!

This afternoon, Year 3 used the chromebooks to create their very own presentation about Ancient Greece.  The explored google slides and learnt how to make new slides, change the colour background, add text and change its colour font and size, insert pictures from the internet as well as use the explore feature to find information related to what they were doing. 

They quickly learnt different keyboard commands include ctrl c to copy and ctrl v to paste.

There best friend however was....... Ctrl Z = UNDO!!  This became a lifesaver or work saver!

Have a look at us in action! 

In science this week we have been investigating what materials float and which ones sink. Ask us what happened! We also worked as a team to make some boats made out of recyclable materials! It was fun but hard work!