Adventure time
In Acorns this week we have had a busy week, having lots of adventures playing and learning.
In Acorns this week we have had a busy week, having lots of adventures playing and learning.
With our grownups we have been discussing our topic question where will our adventure take us. Over the next two weeks we are reading the story Whatever Next by Jill […]
The children have had fun exploring Easter themed activities.
Today we invited our wonderful parents and carers to come support the year 3 and 4 children in their DT learning, making a Sri Lankan Curry! Thank you so much […]
We have been learning about “shun” endings, focusing on -tion and -ssion this week. Today we practised the rules we have learnt to organise words into their correct columns.
What an absolutely fantastic afternoon in Year 5 preparing and hosting a Tudor banquet! First the children prepared and cooked Pottage and Yeoman’s Pudding and then everyone was treated to […]
Following on from our artist study on Owen Mann in Y5 the children have been making clay Tudor roses. The children looked carefully at a Tudor rose and used their […]
In Acorns we been learning about height, length and mass, we have compared farm animals and talked about which is taller, longer or shorter. We have also began exploring the […]
The children in year 3 have been looking at measuring mass of objects. We had to find objects around the classroom and estimate their mass. The children then used weights […]
In year 3, we have been following on from our explanation text about the water cycle and conducted our own scientific experiment! We have used food bags and drawn on […]
On World Book Day the children used a ‘Little People, Big Dreams’ book as the basis of their work. Can you guess which inspirational person we used to support our […]
This afternoon the children in Year 5 began an artist study on Owen Mann. The children will learn all about him before using some of his techniques to create a […]
The children in year 3 have enjoyed experiencing an hour of being in the footsteps of a farm vet. The children enjoyed watching a live lesson which included a check […]
In year 3, we spent a week looking at the story and the morals behind “There is a rang-tan in my bedroom!” We created our own storyboards and then used […]
The children are excited about how tall the sunflowers have grown already. They are looking forward to taking them home and looking after them. Some of the comments from the […]
Children in Y4 started creating their own dance masks based on traditional Sri Lankan masks. We got extra messy with Mod Roc but really enjoyed creating interesting shapes and ridges […]
The children in year 3 are extremely proud of themselves for learning the first few steps of a Kandyan dance! They used their resilience skills to keep going, even if […]
In year 3, we have been painting our masks in the style of our artist. We have been using the skills we have learnt to recreate our masks ready for […]
The children in Year 3 haven begun a science experiment which will focus on a length of time but also links to our current topic of the water cycle. We […]
In Acorns this week we were inspired by the famous artist Vincent Van Gogh. With our grownups we looked at the painting ‘Sunflowers’ that the famous artist painted. We then […]
Our latest family engagement session was a huge success with 12 families creating story sacks to take home. Families chose a book and then created resources to help them retell […]
Along with England football we encouraged our girls to participate in football activities today. It was fantastic to see so much participation and the girls having fun
Today Y5 shared their learning in whole school assembly before we gave out our weekly awards.
In Y3, we have all discussed our own inspirations and we are inspired by these job roles or people. We then began looking at Hans Christian Anderson and used his […]
Yesterday in maths Year 5 combined their maths learning on decimals with some OAA activities. The children were given decimals in the wrong order and had to work as a […]
In year 3, the children have been using mod roc to create their own masks in the style of Sara silzerberg! They have begun by using newspaper to create features […]
In year 3, we completed a range of activities linked to times tables all day! We completed rangoli patterns and emoji patterns using answers from our times tables and then […]
This morning we held a whole school TT Rockstars morning. Thank you to the parents and carers who joined us this morning to take part in times table activities with […]
Today children in Y5 look at what goods are imported and exported into or from the country and why. The children used this information and data provided to draw graphs […]
Teamwork, resilience and high expectations- look what they can achieve! Amazing outcomes Year 5 ❤️
Today Y4 finished off their storyboards and started filming their stop motion animation based on the story of ‘There’s a Rangang in my Bedroom.” Children have used their persuasive language, […]
Today Acorns and Chestnuts enjoyed stroking and feeding the chickens.
In year 4 we have been learning about fractions, and have been focussing on subtracting fractions for the past few days. Today we played a 4-in-a-row game against a partner […]
This week in Acorns we have been reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. We have also been singing a rhyme which has helped us learn the sequence of […]
Even though it’s cold outside we wanted ice cream! We have been practicing our writing and spelling words with our new graphemes. We have also enjoyed matching the letters to […]
On Friday we had a wonderful Multiply session in Y5/6 where we looked at written calculations. The grown ups became the experts then taught their children what they had learnt. […]
This week in Acorns we have been doing lots of learning through the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Wow! Another busy week and lots of learning […]
Wow! Look at these amazing masks and food chains the Yeah 4 Children have been making at home. It has been a real pleasure to see these being brought into […]
This week our Y6 Children showed excellent teamwork skills to work collaboratively during their basketball lesson. How can you protect the ball when dribbling under pressure? Can you create a […]
Congratulations to all this weeks wonderful winners.
Today in Y5 we have been learning the definitions of technical vocabulary from the Spanish Armada explanation text. We matched the words to their definitions and then used our magpie […]
In Maths today Y5 have been learning the equivalence between fractions and decimals. To help us practise these skills we played a racing game in the school hall and we […]
We have been continuing with our fractions learning, and today looked at adding two or more fractions with the same denominator. We completed a dominoes-style group task, and then discussed […]
What a fantastic night we had at Young Voices! Despite the snow threatening out fun, we arrived safely and had a wonderful evening singing songs from Matilda, Moana and Phineas […]
Chestnuts have started exploring the concept of length. They were fascinated by the idea of shorter and longer lengths, so they grabbed pencils and started drawing lines of varying sizes […]
We had a special visit from ‘With Me in Mind’ They came to talk to us about our feelings and what to do if we feel worried. They gave us […]
In Chestnuts we have looked at the artist Vincent van Gough. We used chalk pastels to create our own sunflower pictures. We used our soft fingers to blend the different […]
Today in Lego Club we looked at building a castle. We worked in teams to try and come up with the best castle. Some decided to add a moat, some […]
We have been practising using short division in year 4. We have worked collaboratively and supported each other, dividing 3-digits numbers with a 1-digit number (sometimes with remainders). We have […]
We have been looking at what astronauts eat in Space. We discovered they can’t have bread because of the crumbs!!! We decided to have our own astronaut Space picnic. 5,4,3,2,1 […]
Over the next two weeks we are looking at Space. We are very excited and have loved learning facts about our Universe. We made a Space station. They work and […]
Yesterday, our Y3 girls had the fantastic opportunity to join hundreds of other girls in Rotherham, participating in a Let Them Play football event. The girls were able to sample […]