A favourite event in the school calendar for Key Stage 1 to take part in is Gymnastics. We were invited to take part at The Tribe Centre, a fantastic venue for the children to compete at. All the children worked really hard in their PE lessons and in the gymnastics club to be selected to represent Ernesford in the Level
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The children worked brilliantly in teams to create a box frame out of balsa wood and card corners. They measured and cut the wood to the correct length and then used wood glue to attach it together.
This week the focus in Phonics was words with two or more digraphs, revisiting phase 3 sounds and tricky words; no, of, to, into, she, he and we. In Maths we thought about composition and sorting objects into groups according to their criteria (size, shape or colour). We read The Smartest Giant in Town and The Ginger Bread Man. The
At EGPS, we have always celebrated girls playing football and have been lucky enough to have some very talented, skilled young ladies play for our school team. We are very proud of our past and current players. Today we celebrated the National Day of girls playing football and we were thrilled to have over 80 girls enjoying the game on
This week in Nursery the children have continued to explore dinosaurs with a focus on fact finding. Did you know that a T. Rex’s tooth was the size of a ruler and that the brachiosaurus stride was 3 metres long? Not all dinosaurs were big and that the Compsognathus was only the size of a chicken! Some dinosaurs even had
This week in Nursery the children have continued to explore dinosaurs with a focus on fact finding. Did you know that a T. Rex’s tooth was the size of a ruler and that the brachiosaurus stride was 3 metres long? Not all dinosaurs were big and that the Compsognathus was only the size of a chicken! Some dinosaurs even had
We had a fabulous day celebrating World Book Day! Our love for reading was shared throughout the school and we took part in a variety of activities in year 3 and 4. The children and staff embraced the day as you can see…
We had so much fun dressing up for World Book Day. We started the day with a special assembly and then went back to our class to listen to the story, ‘The friendship bench’. We then designed our very own friendship benches. Some of us also made story characters using potatoes! In the afternoon we made a class scrapbook writing
The theme of World Book Day 2024 is reading for pleasure, and the children finding books that they would like to read. The children had the opportunity to take part in many activities including writing their own graphic novel, speed reviewing their favourite book and guessing the masked teacher reader! Thank you to all the children for producing some wonderful