Indoor Athletics – Willow Class

After a couple of weeks of honing their indoor athletics skills, Willow Class hosted their very own sports hall athletics competition over two PE lessons.  First, the class were divided up into four teams.  They came up a team name and then worked together to decide who was going to take part in which event; everyone … Read more

This week in Chestnut Class

My favourite thing that we did this week was Geography because we got into groups and were given a country that we had to look up and find interesting facts about it on the Ipads. by Damon I love art because we are learning about Joaquin Torres Garcia and we drew symbols of things that … Read more

New Year, New Topics!

Holly class have started the year with some exciting new topics. In Design and Technology, we are looking at puppets and moving parts. We started by looking at different kinds of puppets and then went on to make our own finger puppets. Everyone enjoyed putting characters to their puppets. Then we used our facts from … Read more

Strictly Come Dancing Reports

We have been looking at the features of informal explanation reports in English.  We watched some celebrities dancing and then made the most important decision of all: whether to be kind and helpful or mean and critical.  We had great fun working in pairs to make our reports entertaining.  We then performed them to the rest … Read more

Marvellous Maths

This week, Maple have been revising their knowledge of place value in Maths. We have been learning where to place 3-digit numbers on a number line and using place value to order and compare numbers.  Today, the children were challenged to work in pairs to solve investigative questions. It took a lot of discussion, as … Read more

Hogwarts saves Santa

He Who Can Not Be Named stupefied Santa on Christmas Eve, leaving all of the children in Hogwarts present-less.  Undeterred, our reliable heroes; Harry, Ron and Hermione searched for a solution. Ron thought of his stomach, Harry whinged about his scar BUT Hermione found an ancient '12 Days of Christmas' counter-curse. Snape was unimpressed at … Read more

Fabulous Felt Phonecases

This half term Willow has worked tirelessly to make felt phone cases. Their designs have been so original and have been professionally made with superb stitching and embellishments.  The children worked really hard to learn and use the running, back, whip and blanket stitches to excellent effect.  Mrs Burr, Mrs Wells and Mrs Buckingham were … Read more

Maple get reporting!

This half term in English, Maple class have been learning about the features of non-chronological reports, or information texts. We started by reading some non-fiction books on various sports and discussed the common features.  The children were then set the task to reasearch a sport of their choice and make notes which they would use … Read more

Snappy maths

Willow Class got snappy in their maths lesson last week as they started to investigate angles. The discovered the difference between acute, obtuse and reflex angles and were able to identify right angles and straight line angles too. Getting hands on, the children looked at lots of crocodile mouths and compared and ordered their angles. … Read more