The children in Year 2 explored arrays in Maths.
The Investigators welcomed back local artist Brian Taylor for a painting workshop linking to their learning in Art and Literacy.
KS1 were so excited to welcome back local artist Brian Taylor for a workshop!
KS1 children have been using their knowledge of creating secondary colours from primary colours to produce bouquets of complimentary colour flowers.
The children in Year 1 found different ways to make 20!
In Design and Technology this week, the children in Adventurers enjoyed creating their own moving pictures using a lever mechanism.
KS1 started work on their Mondrian inspired paintings
We explored how many different colours we could see around the classroom. We discussed how colours are all around us in all sorts of shades.
KS1 Mechanisms: Moving Pictures - Sliders and Levers
Our whole school focus for this half term is fairytales! In Adventurers, we have been learning a simple version of Jack and the Beanstalk, which we can then improve.
We explored expressive movement through dance in KS1.
KS1 celebrated their learning of Comparing People and Places topic today by making party masks to celebrate 'Carnival'.
KS1 have been designing and making delicious salads.
Today we explored 3-D shapes.
The children in KS1 loved their gruesome creations!
Our KS1 children delivered a spectacular Nativity performance - we are so proud!
Year 2 had a lovely time in their last Forest School session toasting marshmallows.
Year 2 wowed Year 1 with a musical performance showcasing their learning with Ms Price across this half term.
The Y2 children had a GREAT Foresct School Afternoon afternoon yesterday. They LOVE the muddy, slippy days best!
KS1 have been learning about Advent and how Christians get ready for Christmas.
This week, we have been learning what bullying is and what we can do if we are worried about it.
Year 2 had a brilliant time in their first forest school session of the year.
Adventurers have been making poppy wreaths for Remembrance!
In RE we are answering the question Why does Christmas matter to Christians?
KS1 have been learning all about addition this week.
Adventurers put all of their skills to excellent use to create their final fact-files!
We have been keen researchers in Adventurers!
Relationships and Health Education.
Working together!
Exploring properties of different materials.
Is it more? Is it less? Or...is it equal?
Today was the first Forest School session for our Y1 children and they had a FANTASTIC afternoon!
This week saw our year ones visit the forest school again and make a gigantic tree from fallen branches.
This week has seen the commencement of the Forest School for our year ones, which was thoroughly enjoyed by all.
Year 1 enjoyed their first Forest School session this afternoon!
Adventurers have had a great first week back at school.
We learnt some funky moves today during our Sports Relief session.
KS1 learnt how to wash hands like doctors and nurses this week in their PSHE lessons.
This week we started to look at the sculptures of the artist Giacommetti.
We have been reading 'The Lonely Sea Dragon' by Helen Dunmore.
'oy' sound.
At Forest School this week we learnt about habitats. We looked at some habitats of the creatures that lived in the woods and then we had a go at building nests!
Smugglers' Lane and Smugglers' Tunnel.
We learnt about habitats this week in our Science lessons.
This week we have been learning how to share and group numbers.
We had great fun at forest school. We spent time working together. We hunted for smooth, rough, long and squishy things! We look forward to next week...
The children had to show equal groups in different ways.
Thank you to all volunteers and FOBS for your contributions!
The children built fantastic bridges for the 'River Thames', considering which materials were the most suitable for purpose according to different properties.
The children have learnt the countries and capital cities of the UK. They have now begun process of learning the continents and oceans of the world.