On Wednesday, class one took part into an activity in which the children, using maps, coloured in and glued on some of the crops from Mrs Handford’s farm. We really enjoyed doing thousand being creative with the strange materials.

As many of you may know, class one have had some guests in class over the past couple of months: tadpoles. However all of our tadpoles are beginning to turn into froglets and many of them are fully formed frogs. We are very happy to witness the great transformation of the frog.

Today all of the children discovered and investigated lots of different types and versions of corn. We really enjoyed getting up close with the corn and describing what they were all like. Mrs Handford was really helpful in teaching us all about the different types of Corn.

While year 2 were gardening with Mrs Richards, year 3 took some time to meditate. In class we have been looking at Buddhism and had watched some people meditating in a video. This afternoon we looked (and smelled) incense and thought about why candles feature in Buddhist meditation. Finally we meditated ourselves, focusing on being… Read more »

Today in class 1, we having been learning about shadows in relevance to our featured artist: Gordon Bruce. First we identified what shadows actually are and the basic physics of shadows.

Today class 1 took part in the thrilling activity which was maypole dancing! The children really enjoyed taking part in this and listening to the amazing folk music.​ ​​ ​​ ​​ ​

Next week we are going to be looking at measurements again. The first thing we will be covering is time, so I have set some time homework on MyMaths. Keep practising telling the time, both with hands and digital, it is such an important life skill. I know some of you are already good time… Read more »

This week in french we learnt how to describe our family. We drew our family tree in french and told each other true or false sentences for a partner to guess. For example: Dans ma famille il y a deux soeurs – In my family there are two sisters Do you think this is vrai… Read more »

Having spoken to a few people who have had trouble logging in to MyMaths I have made a video below which shows how it can be accessed on apple devices. The main issues seem to be the ‘Flash Player’ not working – something that Apple don’t and won’t support. MyMaths are currently in the process… Read more »

Yesterday Mrs Handford brought in a very special and exciting guest…….. A 10 day old lamb called Fred. The children were thrilled to meet Fred and Fred loved meeting them. The children were really enthusiastic and were asking Mrs Handford lots of questions about Fred whilst Fred was kind enough to let the children (and… Read more »