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Oak and Willow worked in small groups to create a short ballet performance for the last scene of Romeo and Juliet!

In our first science lesson, Willow sorted animals into groups based on shared characteristics. They identified B-road groups of animals including vertebrates and invertebrates recording their data in a Carroll and Venn diagram. 

Oak Class started their unit of work about electricity by learning about and correcting matching the symbols used to the correct electrical circuit component. We revisited prior learning and discussed the difference between a good electrical conductor and a good electrical insulator. The…

As part of the Greenpower Goblin project we are participating in with the academy, Oak Class measured the chassis of the car in order to create their own scale models in groups. The children decorated their models in line with our chosen theme and evaluated their work using our ‘talk like a…

Pig the Pug watched us completed our final task for “Travelling Tales.” We decorated some special Pug biscuits ready for Ralph’s visit later this week! 

This week in Design Technology we created sculptures using paper! We tried out techniques for rolling, folding and fastening the paper to the base. 

Willow loved looking through some real life Egyptian Artefacts! 

In English we have been creating shape poems! We looked at lots of examples together and discussed the structure. Then we chose our favourite fruits and created vocabulary lists to describe them. 

Willow had an amazing time at St Andrews this week for our Egyptian themed day! They took part in a variety of activities including crafting their own cartouche, making their own clay amulet, painting masks of eternity and mummy wrapping fun! 

This week we have enjoyed playing in the house role play as we have been gifted some new baby dolls. We are so pleased with our new babies and accessories. We have enjoyed dressing and pushing the prams with our babies in. 

In the Early Years Foundation Stage learning is driven in part through children’s interests. Our work on carnivores, herbivores and omnivores in Science took us back to the time of the dinosaurs! Miss Delderfield created an amazing hands-on experience for the children to develop their own lines of…

We had a visit from Mrs Gethin, Ralph and some children from The Howard to share an exciting new project happening across our seven schools. Using the story Pig the Pug each school will complete a variety of activities and add them to the scrapbook. This will then be passed on, creating a powerful…