This week, we learnt to read simple coordinates as part of our Land Ahoy topic. We gave a pesky pirate some instructions to find his way around a treasure island. On Thursday we placed our ‘x’ on a map to bury our treasure and played a ‘Battleships’ style game.
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We had lots of fun on Potions Day making slime, decorating gingerbread biscuits, making bubble mixture, making our own potions and investigating cornflour and water.
A HUGE thank you to all the parents for the effort you put into sorting costumes for Potions Day. The children looked amazing!!
The children had a wonderful time exploring the signs of Autumn around our school grounds. We looked at the different kinds of trees such as Sycamore, Silver Birch and Pine. The leaves were changing into beautiful autumn colours of red, yellow, orange and brown. We also talked about some plants and trees being evergreen. We found helicopter seeds and threw
As part of our celebrations for Harvest Festival the Reception children learned about different kinds of bread. They had the opportunity to try pumpernickel, brioche, baguette and wholemeal bread. Some of the breads got the thumbs up and some didn’t! The children used lots of interesting words to describe the breads, such as yummy, fluffy, squishy and tasty!
On Thursday 10th October Year 3 visited Cadbury World in Birmingham as part of our topic this half term Scrumdiddlyumptious. We had a great time learning all about the process of how chocolate is made and the origin and history of chocolate. We enjoyed making and tasting a variety of chocolate treats. Can you tell by the look on our
Nursery enjoyed joining the rest of Early Years in a special assembly celebrating Harvest. The Reverend Julie Watkins-Wollner came from St Catherine’s Church to take our Harvest Festival. She also brought her friend ‘squirrel’ with her too! Thank you to all the children and parents who donated food! .
Year 2 have been learning about famous pirates. This week we learnt all about Anne Bonny, by asking her parrot some questions. 2S enjoyed writing questions on the table in the Learning Hub and deciding which would provide us with the best information. They then asked ‘Pancake’ the parrot them and were amazed by his replies.
Year 5 completed a workshop with the NSPCC charity. Children in Year 5 and 6 have completed workshops, conducted by visitors from the NSPCC. Our pupils were told about how to stay healthy and safe, how to let a trusted adult know if they have concerns and how they could use the services of Childline. They have also followed up