Category: All School

On Thursday 4th of April, every child in our school took part in Rewards afternoon.  A range of activities were on offer for each child to choose.

This week in Miss Sowden’s class, we have been making salt dough so that we could make a Viking rune stone.  We designed our stone before we added our patterns to the dough. We took photos of us making it, so that we could sequence the steps and next week we will be writing a…

On Thursday 28th March, year 6 visited Torre Abbey. While we were there, we learnt about the origins of the abbey and dressed up in the outfits the monks that originally lived there would have worn. We visited the Spanish Barn and learnt about how it housed nearly 400 prisoners captured by Sir Francis Drake,…

Children in year 5 got the amazing opportunity to go attend a maths challenge at Exeter Road. The children worked as a team to complete a series of maths based activities. They competed against three other schools in our area and they all did fantastic. A big well done to all the children involved!

This term we have been looking at a story called ‘Sigurd and the Dragon’.  It links to our Viking topic and we are currently writing our own versions of this story.  When we haven’t been writing we have made character puppets or masks and built settings from Lego to help our understanding of the characters.

Here are some images from World Maths Day that took place on Thursday 14th of March 2019:   EYFS on World Maths Day: World Maths Day – we sang the days of the week song and listened to the story about a daily delivery of penguins. The children counted out 7 penguins and 7 days…

Here are some images from Science/STEM week:

As part of our new topic the children have been bringing in photographs of their family pets. The children have been writing their pet’s name for our display. It is important to encourage early mark-making by giving it a meaningful purpose.

Recently in Reception, the children have been setting up their role play area as a shop and learning to count, match and compare items. They have been talking and writing about what they would like to be when they grow up. The children have also found out about technology used in the school buildings.