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Chinese New Year in Nursery

This week we have been learning about the Chinese New Year, we have looked at where China is on the world map and thought about how their celebrations are similar to ours in the UK. We have been making Chinese lanterns, practising to paint Chinese numbers and joining in with a Chinese dragon dance!

Mathematicians in Reception

Reception have been working very hard this week to discover how many different ways that they could make 5. We used the song ‘Five Little Speckled Frogs’ as a starting point and manged to find lots of different ways. To challenge ourselves, we hid some of the frogs in the deep pond to see if […]

Year One’s Materials

We have continued investigating materials as part of our science learning, categorising and sorting items based on what they were made from (not what they look like or what they do) 🧦🏺🍴The children could name plastic, glass, wood, brick, fabric and metal amongst others! We went for a hunt around school and talked about why […]

Nursery’s Doctors Surgery

This week we have been learning about Doctors. We read the story ‘Going to the Doctor’ and talked about when we have been to the doctors. We thought about when we have been poorly and what the doctor did to make us better. We have had lots of patients visiting our surgery this week and […]

Year Four Rock Stars

Year Four have worked their socks off this week during their involvement in a city wide TTRS competition. They have shown determination and commitment to answer as many questions as possible to gain places on the leader boards for our school, our class and as individuals and their hard work has definitely paid off! As […]

Concretely subtracting from a mixed number in Year Five

This week, we have been continuing to work hard in our fractions unit in maths. The children used counters to concretely subtract from a mixed number whilst crossing a whole. It was fantastic to see them representing mixed numbers with such confidence and then transitioning onto pictorial and abstract methods.  

Money in Year Two

Year Two have been learning about money recently. In this lesson, they worked with concrete resources to understand the concept of giving change. They drew pictures, set a price and sold them to their friends, ensuring they were giving accurate change.

Long Lost Families – A Year Six census investigation

Year Six we’re presented with a mystery photograph of a family from the Victorian era. They were presented with an old, handwritten Victorian census taken 4 years after the photograph and a signature at the bottom of the picture. With this, children were tasked with identifying the name, age (when the photograph was taken, not […]

Year One’s Dentistry! 

In PHSE we have continued our learning about caring for our teeth. We have made our own toothbrush showing four ways to care for our teeth. We used circular actions to colour a set of teeth to remind us how to brush and sorted different foods to show if they were good or bad for […]