A very warm week has not been conducive to minibeast hunting but fabulous in most respects! The reception children explored another two habitats on our bug hunting Monday. Firstly they looked at what lived in the trees. The children looked at the trunk of the trees and then held white sheets and shook the branches … Read more
The reception children already knew a lot about our eight legged friends but through non-fiction books, e-books and websites lots of new interesting information has been learnt. We also looked at stories and rhymes about spiders. Our ‘exciting’ Friday writing was a story about a spider and once again there was a dramatic increase in … Read more
Class 1/2’s Chinese New Year Assembly Pupils in Class 1/2 have been learning about China. They have made made Chinese noodles, Chinese dragon puppets, Chinese lanterns and have heard the Chinese story about the how the animals were decided to represent the Chinese New Year. Class 1/2 pupils can located the map of China and … Read more
Another week packed with activity and learning. After a quick chat with ‘talking partners’ we discovered that between us we knew quite a lot about snails. A non-fiction Usborne text entitled ‘Snails’ added to the children’s knowledge and they all wrote some interesting facts for their writing in class. Story recall of ‘Odo the Snail’ … Read more
Last week Class 1R performed an Assembly on Minibeasts. They had read an information book called ‘Minibeast Encyclopedia’ in their Literacy lessons and this was their inspiration. Everyone had a line to learn for the Assembly and they all spoke in loud, clear voices. They showed some minibeast artwork, sang the rhyme ‘Incy Wincy Spider’ … Read more
Here is a video of the Assembly.
In class this week the children have been learning about butterflies and watching our Painted Lady caterpillars grow. We have read some great stories about butterflies from the informative Usborne ‘Butterflies’ with its informative website, to the classic Hungry Caterpillar and hence this weekend’s writing homework. ‘Ben plants a butterfly garden’ has prompted us to … Read more
Tadpoles, froglets and caterpillars and of course children, what a fascinating week! This week we started our work on life cycles and living things. With three tadpoles changing into froglets we read some non-fiction books and e-books about their development and completed a frog life cycle in our computer lesson. Look at these websites to … Read more
A nice short week to break everyone in gently, however we’ve managed to cram it full of new experiences! Hopefully your child has been telling you all about our recycling work. Two ladies from North Herts Council did some sorting with the children and we learnt some songs about recycling and heard the story of … Read more
The week started with feverish practising of a hastily put together class assembly. I hope that the film put onto the school website yesterday, helped you to appreciate the hard work that the children had put in over a very short period of time. With Easter cards and baskets to make, seeds to be planted, … Read more
