Year: 2020

12 November 2020

In Year 1 the children have been learning about Guy Fawkes and The Gunpowder Plot. Bonfire night may have been a little bit different this year, but it did not stop the Pearls from getting excited about fireworks! 1CB created these colourful fireworks pictures using pastels and glitter.

12 November 2020

This is the month for making the garden a paradise for our feathered friends. We have been discussing how we can help the birds during winter and the children have set up a bird feeding station for a variety of foods, as well as a bird table, ably helped by Mr Southworth. They have been…

5 November 2020

The Year 6 tech whizzes had brilliant fun creating their own interactive adventure stories, complete with links following different story paths. This took a lot of logic and de-bugging, but the results were fantastic. Year 6 really enjoyed going on each other’s adventures!

5 November 2020

To finish our Science topic with a bang, and put into practice all that we had learnt about the structure of volcanoes, we built our own volcanoes out of clay before making them erupt using bicarbonate of soda, food colouring and vinegar. It was brilliant fun to be able to see our learning come to…

5 November 2020

Year 2 Sapphires have begun to learn about monarchs in History. In the first lesson we considered what the role of a monarch has been over different periods of time and what it is today. We also thought about some rules we might come up with if we were the Queen or King today. There…

5 November 2020

We held our annual Reception Ball Dance on the last day of the first half of the Autumn term. Everyone dressed up to the nines and had rehearsed their dance until it was just right. The hall was decorated with bunting, some staff had been invited and the ball began with many a curtsey and…

15 October 2020

This week in Reception Diamonds we have been eagerly awaiting the Cinderella Ball Dance to round off our Familiar Stories topic. We have discussed the key events in the story, described the main characters, made bunting and written invitations. Here are some signs to tell guests how to get to the ball. The rehearsals have…

1 October 2020

The Year 5’s had a wonderful National Poetry Day.

1 October 2020

During our Relationship Time lessons, the Year 3 Rubies have been inspired to take a closer look at nature, delighting in the extraordinary creativity we can see around us. We decided that a big part of enjoying the natural world involved finding ways in which can support it, sustain it and preserve it. We discussed…

1 October 2020

Last week, the Year 3 Rubies were busy diving into the world of non-fiction, creating their own informative leaflets about animals. They harnessed and honed their research skills, using the internet to find out a wide variety of fascinating facts on their chosen topic and considering subheadings to focus their attention on key details. Finally,…