Sewing a Press Stud
Year 4 are become experts at threading a needle. Today they sewed a press stud onto fabric.
Enjoying a good read
Year 4 have been enjoying reading their class novel outside in the glorious summer weather.
Year 2 at Forest School
Year 2 have waited all year to attend Forest School and it certainly didn’t disappoint. They had lots of fun building dens, climbing trees, playing ‘Eagle and Mice’ (a hide and run game), making nature inspired crafts as well as chilling out in hammocks. What a wonderful start to their Forest…
Nursery Cutting Skills
This week we have been practising our cutting skills.
To link in with our story of the week, ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’ we had a bear and the different story characters to cut out, helping us to retell the story.
We used a range of scissors including loop scissors and normal scissors to…
Year 5 Orienteering
Year 5 went to Muncaster Castle to practice their orienteering skills and reading Ordnance Survey maps. They had to follow the map to certain points then find the hidden letter. They used their knowledge of Ordnance survey map symbols to help them. We also had time for some fun on the play parks!
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Year 5 Cross Country Fitness Challenge
A huge well done to all the children who ran in the Cross Country Fitness Challenge today. They all did extremely well in the heat and were happy to be cooled down with water pistols at the end. Congratulations to Alfie who set a new course record! We are waiting to see if we are the most improved…
Y6 Orienteeering at Muncaster
Year 6 travelled to Muncaster to refine their OS map reading skills and have a go at orienteering. They had to follow a route on an orienteering map to find 16 different checkpoints. Each checkpoint had a code which they needed to record on a special sheet. The children were very good at…
Year 3 Ordnance Survey map studies
Year 3 have been busy looking at Ordnance Survey Maps this week. They have matched symbols and understood the purpose of maps, grid references and when they might be needed.
Author visits Year 2 and Reception
Year 2 and Reception were visited by the author and illustrator Sean Perkins who came to share his new book ‘Oscar and Ben The Birthday Party.’ The children were gripped from the beginning until the end, joining in with repeated refrains and rhymes as well as chuckling at the humorous parts. They…
Our visit from an author
An author called Sean Perkins came to visit us in school and shared his book called, ‘Oscar and Ben and the Birthday Party’. He shared the story, sang a song and taught the children how to draw one of the cat characters. The children loved the story and some even bought a signed copy of the book.
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Nursery Maths and Computing
Last week in Nursery we combined our computing and maths skills to complete a job.
We were using the iPads on an interactive game of counting the ladybird spots.
Lots of children were able to practise their subsidising skills for numbers 1-3, and some children were able to subsidise…
Bowling
Year 3 and 4 walked down to our local bowling green to take part in a bowling tournament against other local schools. They had a great time learning a new sport. Some of the children were very good at it and wanted to go again, in their own time.