Y6 Trashion Show
Y6 enjoyed a design and technology day creating “fashion” from recyclable items. The theme was “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” and they certainly did that. Working in small teams, they created a selection of weird and wonderful items of clothing and showed their designs off on the cat-walk.
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Moving up to Year 2
Today our Year 1 children spent the morning in their new class, getting to know their new teachers and becoming familiar with the classroom. They looked at photos of what activities they may do in Year 2 then they listened to the story ‘The Dot’ by Peter Reynolds. The message of the story was that…
Exploring the geography of Egremont
Year 2 have spent much of this year learning about physical and human features in their geography lessons. Today they went on a walk around Egremont to explore the many features it has and use their knowledge to identify the type of features they are. The children even found time for a spot of…
Year 5 Forest School
The activity for this week was to build a sculpture that represented ‘Hopes’ for Year 6. The children were unanimous in that they wanted challenge, calm and fun!
This group of children chose to work mostly as a team, but then 2 children broke away and decided to worked independently. The…
Position and direction in Year 2
Year 2 started a new maths unit today on position and direction. Today they were using the positional words left, right, backwards and forwards. They had great fun giving instructions to their partners to move around the playground.
Year 3 English Text Creations
We have been reading a graphic text in English lessons for the last two weeks. The characters in the text created animals using sticks, mud, pebbles, leaves nuts and stones. We wrote descriptions about fantastical animals that we would like to create. We illustrated them in the style of Dave…
Design Technology Day in Year 2
Year 2 have been learning about the history of puppets in preparation for designing and making marionette puppets. The children thoroughly enjoyed the making process and are very proud of their final creations. The children found out that puppets have been used to entertain people for thousands of…
Year 3 link Science to their design and technology day
Year 3 had a great time on design and technology day, making garden flowers and planters from re-cycled bottles. This linked nicely to our science topic on plants. The children enjoyed painting and bending the plastic bottles to make garden decorations and flower planters hung with ribbon.
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What Makes our School Special?
Our first Forest Schools Taster session was held for Years 3 and 4. After learning the rules for Forest school, ‘Be safe, be kind,’ the children were set the challenge of designing a flag or emblem that represents what makes our School so special. The only resources allowed were anything that…
Maths Wizards
We have started our new phase of learning in Maths. We have enjoyed sharing out raisins and our role play food fairly. We loved working out odds and evens by sharing cubes and other resources into two groups and seeing if there was one left over, which means it’s an odd number. Our problem…
Year 3 practise their ball skills
Year 3 enjoyed practising their ball skills with Mr Green. They were passing, stopping and controlling the ball.
Cricket Coaching
Year 4 are really enjoying developing the skills needed for cricket. They particularly enjoyed using their news skills to gain points in the game.