Climate Change Ambassadors met with our Green Team. They discussed and shared ideas to develop our school grounds to help inform our climate action plan.
The Green Team created drawings with their ideas. They included suggestions our grounds to be used for growing vegetables, plants, trees, wildflowers, micro habitats and water buts and much more. We look forward to meeting with Climate Ambassadors next term.
Class 6 have been enjoying the sunshine whilst practising their shooting skills in basketball, and celebrating Iranian New Year by making these lovely flowers with Class 4
Children in Year 3 and 4 used an OS map to explore their local area. They identified physical features like rivers, trees and hills and human features such as roads, buildings, and landmarks. They noted down these features, enhancing their understanding of geography and map reading skills.
Spring has sprung in Reception. We enjoyed doing some observational drawings of daffodils. We looked carefully at the flower and the stem.
Huge thanks to our wonderful catering team for helping us celebrate St Patrick’s Day in style! The traditional Irish menu was delicious!
Our Year 5 and 6 Scientists, have been learning about photosynthesis. Marvelling at how plants take CO2 and water and turn them into glucose and oxygen using sunlight. They conducted a fascinating experiment with discs of spinach, syringes and a solution of baking soda.
So many amazing activities at Forest School this afternoon! We’ve been whittling wood, using the saw to cut pieces of wood, using the tool station and looking at cloud formations as well as our favourite activities such as the mud kitchen and tightrope.
Children worked with our horticulturalist to design and create a sensory path. This path will support biodiversity and enable pupils to explore and nature.
Our Green Team and Wellbeing Ambassadors joined forces this week for Eat Them to Defeat Them campaign.
They launched the week with an assembly sharing the importance of healthy eating for their wellbeing and physical health. Each day, children were encouraged to defeat the vegetable of the day! We had a special visitor for the local authority, who encouraged children to take part in the salsa dip taster activity.
Our catering team were amazing with engaging displays, provided lots of interesting facts. What a successful week this has been!
As part of ‘British Science Week,’ Classes 3 and 4 joined an online event, ‘Amazing Adaptations.’ We learnt about how animals have adapted to their environments such as the Belted Galloways. We talked about what makes them so suitable to living in Britain. Dr Harriett told us all about the importance of sustainability in farming, such as using animal poo as a fertiliser to grow better crops. She also told us how farmers have to adapt their practise due to climate change and how we can do our bit by,’ Loving our leftovers’ and stop throwing food away.
Today Year 6 have had an excellent time at Capital One. The visit included a tour of the bank before focussing on careers. This focussed on hard & soft skills where a combination makes you highly employable. Children had to evaluate themselves with a range of skills. After this, groups had to create a skill robot from recycled waste. Well done to the winning group, who all received an Amazon voucher from Capital One.
Our pupils in Reception and Year 1, thoroughly enjoyed their workshops delivered by Judith and her team. They taught Reception and Year 1 children a lot of new skills as they travelled through Gambia.
Children made a colourful African mask, learnt traditional songs and dances, the drums and the bongo! The classes came together to put on a very energetic, entertaining and inclusive performance.
Thank you Judith and your team for coming in and working with us. We have learnt so much about Gambia, through the arts.
Another wonderful afternoon in Forest School. First, we learnt how to make a timber hitch knot. We used clay to make animal footprints as well as setting a safe trap (with peanut butter!). Hopefully, we will see some little animal footprints when we open the traps on Monday. We also used cold charcoal from last week’s fire to make pencils and made potions in the mud kitchen. To finish off, we toasted apples over the campfire.
To celebrate World Book Day, our Reading Rangers launched a week encouraging children to think about their future careers. Each class enjoyed reading a career related book: All Through the Night, Whose Hands are These and Unusual Jobs That You’ve Probably Never Heard. Classes created artwork to celebrate the many essential jobs and jobs they may never have heard about.
Throughout the week, we had special visits from a Paediatric Consultant, Police Officers and a Horticulturalist. We celebrated the end of our week with a parent/carer stay and read, children dressing as their future careers and a wonderful end-of-day assembly celebrating all the hard work the children have put into their career themed artwork.
A big thank you to everyone who made this week such a memorable and inspiring experience for all!
Reception loved making pancakes! They mixed eggs, flour and milk to get the batter. They then fried them. We had a choice of toppings and they tasted yummy.
What a fabulous afternoon we’ve had at Forest School! We started with a treasure hunt followed by balancing on the slack line, climbing trees, building dens, trying out the new hammock and bug hunting. And it wouldn’t be Forest School without hot chocolate and toasted marshmallows on the campfire. 🔥
This week, Year 6 have been busy learning basketball skills in the sun and decorating jars with the popular Victorian arts and craft technique, ‘decoupage’. A fantastic week of learning; what a great start to the half term!
Class 2 had an amazing time with Class 1 at the Newark Air Museum, exploring the different types of flying machines over the years from helicopters, aeroplanes, jets, and a replica of the original aircraft built and flown by the Wright brothers for 12 seconds.
Year 1 went to Newark Air Museum and we learnt all about how humans took flight. We looked at how planes developed over time and really enjoyed ourselves!
What a brilliant trip to the National Justice Museum. Throughout the busy day, children learnt about Georgian & Victorian prison life including for female inmates before completing a crime scene investigation but using Victorian methods. The afternoon saw the class complete a cave tour before learning how to be archaeologist.
Early Years Foundation Stage had a visit from the Teddy Bears Hospital. They brought their teddies into school ready to visit the hospital. We had different stations to visit. We had handwashing, brushing our teeth, visiting the hospital and seeing the doctor. It was great fun to try the different activities.
Class 6 have done some fantastic baking today including a visit to the kitchen and a talk with the school cook. We made Victorian inspired cakes by adapting a basic Victoria sponge recipe: they planned their sponge flavour, filling and decorations. We hope you enjoy tasting them at home!
For NSPCC maths day Early Years enjoyed a parent’s maths session. There were lots of opportunities to learn all about number and pattern. We used five frames, patterning elephants, number formation sheets, puzzles and books.
Today in Class 3, we used stop-frame animation on Purple Mash to create our own short Stone Age animations. We created a series of frames, set the background, digitally drew each frame and made small changes using onion skinning to make sure there was a smooth transition between frames. They were fabulous! 🌟😃💻🌟
As part of National Storytelling Week we made our own puppets to use for storytelling. We have made a puppet theatre and are going to use our imaginations to make up stories.
As part of National Storytelling Week, Year 5 and Year 6 participated in an online workshop with award-winning author Tọlá Okogwu. The theme of the week is ‘Reimagine Your World’ and children worked with Tola to create their own superhero story. Tola discussed her writing process and how she formulates her own ideas into a story. It was amazing to see so many excellent ideas from the children.
In Year 1, the children have been taking part in a forest school experience. They learnt lots of skills and had a Gruffalo hunt!
Today Year 5 and 6 have been immersed in their new English unit by becoming crime scene investigators! They had to look for clues, take notes and come up with a possible hypothesis using the evidence, before finding out what it represented by reading the poem ‘The Highwayman’ by Alfred Noyes. We will be continuing to look at this from a different aspect next week and are impressed with the children’s enthusiasm so far.
Our last Forest School of the year. We cooked on the fire and made lots of interesting things. Well done Class 1!