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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!

Class 3 have had a wonderful day today cooking in Design & Technology. We learnt all about food hygiene and safety in the kitchen. We weighed, prepared and measured all of the ingredients that we had chosen. We tried our best using today’s methods and techniques to improve a Stone Age diet 🍪😃♥️🥣🧁👍

In our history learning this afternoon, Year 6 have been developing their understanding of the journey of how women were finally allowed to vote. Children learnt how women started to spoil the census, among other activities as a method of protest. Finally, children constructed a timeline of the significant events.

Early Years Foundation Stage learnt about Chinese New Year. They listened to the story of how the Emperor chose the animals for the zodiac calendar, they used charcoal to draw Chinese numerals, practised their fine motor skills and even had it in the home corner and play dough.

Thank you to our amazing catering team for providing a fantastic Chinese New Year meal for us to try. We feasted on Chinese lemon chicken, rice, stir fry noodles and mango muffins. Delicious!

Years 1 and 2 had so much fun celebrating Chinese New Year. Many thanks to our parent governor for celebrating with us!

Reception loved their Beat Feet session. We had fun colouring masks and singing songs about Africa. We also did some dancing using lasers.

In today’s Beatfeet session, Year 1 were continuing our learning about The Gambia. We listened to traditional music and we used torches to create an ocean effect on the ceiling.

Reception enjoyed learning about number recognition and 1-1 number correspondence by playing a game on the interactive whiteboard.

In Forest School, Year 1 learnt how to use a bow saw to create discs to draw on. We then had some delicious hot chocolate!

Early Years Foundation Stage enjoyed their second parents reading session. Such valuable time sharing books and promoting the love of reading. See you again next week!

This afternoon Year 6 continued their science learning about light. Children created viewfinders to test which materials reflect light the best. Throughout the session, children investigated a range of materials while also recording their observations accurately.

In Year 1 we had a fantastic Design and Technology day. We tasted fruit and bread and decided which one we wanted to add to our own bread. We then learnt how to use a knife safely, using the bridge and claw techniques. We then tasted our bread, it was yummy!

In Computing, we have been practising ways of making short animations- by taking still photographs, changing one part at a time and by digitally drawing frames. We also learnt to use ‘onion skinning’ to help us to see the previous frame when drawing a new one to make movement smoother. We the ran the animations to see how well they worked. They were impressive!

Year 3 and 4 have enjoyed an afternoon of discovery in history. We learnt about the Amesbury man who was discovered in 2002. In groups we did 3 activities.

• Conscience Alley where we decided if archaeologists should or should not excavate the grave of the Amesbury man.
• We sketched Stone Age artefacts.
• We excavated the grave of the Amesbury man and thought about what the artefacts tell us about his life.

Class 3 have rounded off their rocks and soils topic by making mould fossils. A mould fossil is created in sedimentary rock when an organism rots away and leaves an imprint of its original shape.

In History Year 1 have been learning about how humans took flight. Today we created freeze frames from when the Wright Brothers first took flight all those years ago.

Year 1 had a fantastic session with Beatfeet. They made African masks and learnt a song from The Gambia.

In Forest School, Year 1 were carrying on learning lots of new skills, including how to whittle a carrot and walking on a slack line.

Early Years Foundation Stage enjoyed their first parent’s reading session. A great chance to share stories with children and adults. Remember this will happen every Friday 9 – 9.30!

In English, class 3 used drama to role play how it might have felt to hunt in Stone Age times.

We were hunting a woolly mammoth!

In our Design and Technology lesson, Class 3 worked in groups to decide how we could improve the taste, nutrition and appearance of Stone Age recipes. Last week we tasted potage which the Stone Age people would have eaten. It wasn’t very tasty!

In Design  and Technology, Year one were looking at healthy eating plates. They enjoyed learning about what foods are healthy to eat.

Early Years are learning about explorers. They had an explorer day. We started by doing our own exploring to see what we could find. We saw it was very frozen and investigated how it felt. We saw lots of things including aeroplanes, birds, trees and Stick Man. We had an explorer snack then did lots of activities including making earth and making telescopes.

Class 1 are looking at ‘Man on the Moon’ by Simon Bartram in English and early flight in Humanities. To kick this term off we made our own class rocket, to accompany this we also made our own planets. Our book was found outside, wrapped in golden paper. It surely came down from space?