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As we celebrat National Art week last week, Willow exploted the following artists: Mbongeni Buthelezi abd Konboye Ebipade Eugene. Their theme expanded on prior learning - conservationism and plastic pollution. They chose their marine animal to draw, paint and layer. We then went around the village…

Oak Class applied their learning of expanded lists to independently describe the character of Beowulf,  based on what we have read in whole-class reading. The class did a fantastic job and have shown such growth in their writing abilities this year!

In PE, Oak Class revisited their throwing and catching skills from last week’s lesson. The children showed super progress in their accuracy and were then ready to progress to learning how to bowl. By the end of the lesson, the children were accurately using a straight arm to bowl a ball in the…

We have been trying to answer the question, how am I making history? We played “Guess Who” with our baby photographs and talked about how much we have changed. Then we made our own personal timelines. Many thanks to all our families for sharing their precious photographs! 

Year 1 have been busy offering advice to Pinocchio! He wants to be a real boy but on his first day of school he was distracted and went to a puppet show instead! We wanted to help him make good choices! 

Oak Class began their new unit of learning by creating Viking timelines. The children learned when the Vikings came to Britain and the main reasons believed as to why!

Oak Class developed their visualisation skills in reading this week. The children then used their imaginations and the information from the text, that we have learned about Grendel, to write vivid setting descriptions! The children included figurative language and relative clauses within their…

In PE, Oak Class began their cricketing topic by establishing the ready position! The children learned how to do a successful close catch and deep catch and considered when each would be used. 

This week Reception have been exploring double numbers and looking at patterns. It always helps to learn new things in a practical way! 

Oak Class finalised their writing by publishing their newspaper reports this week! The children reported on the subterfuge of the Trojan Horse, which was carefully constructed by General Odysseus and his Spartan soldiers! An excellent final piece of work to end the half term, well done Oak!

We have lots of activities set up in Maple class to provide independent learning opportunities. We aim to spark curiosity, imagination, autonomy and teamwork. Here are some examples of some recent invitations to play.