Blog by Tag: Curriculum enrichment

All the children looked amazing in their outfits for World Boik Day with some children dressing as characters in books or simply dressing in their pyjamas or non-uniform. They thoroughly enjoyed joining up with Year 5 to share books together and listen to each other read. What a wonderful way to…

Year 5 had an exciting science workshop yesterday led by Alex, a physics graduate. They learned about the Earth's rotation around the sun and how it spins on its axis, which causes day and night as well as the seasons. At the same time, the moon rotates around the Earth. To help us understand…

Year 5 had a really busy day for World Book Day! We visited the library to pick out a book and enjoyed some quiet time reading it. We launched our new book, "The Boy in the Tower” and listened to the 1st two chapters where Ade describes what he can see from his tower block window. We then drew…

Nursery have loved celebrating world book day today! We came to school dress up as our favourite character and enjoyed sharing a story with Year 4.

Year 3 had a great World Book Day spending time colouring in, doing word searches, reading to Miss Carty and reading stories to the Year 1 children. They all looked great in their costumes and pjs.

Today Year 1 celebrated World Book Day by inviting our families in for story time. After enjoying a whole class story everyone shared books together. It was amazing to see everyone reading for pleasure. Thank you to all our families for coming to join us.

Year 6 attended a Career’s Fair organised by Primary Business Partnership and delivered by Centre for Leadership Performance in association with OneAIM and Sellafield Ltd SiX. Throughout the afternoon, they visited many stalls where they learned about the different industries in their locality. It…

Nursery loved celebrating pancake day yesterday! They had a variety of toppings to choose from including jam, butter or chocolate sauce. Can you guess which was the most popular choice? 

After making our handprint minibeasts some children had a go at using the paint program on Purple Mash to paint and create some more minibeasts and bugs. Some children chose templates to paint while others had a go at painting their bug from scratch.

This week in Nursery we started our new topic ‘How does your garden and its creatures grow?’. 
We had a go at painting and creating our very own minibeasts using our hand prints! 

Bill from the STEM team joined us this afternoon to open our minds about the multitude possibilities that are available to us after we leave education. We thought about what jobs we currently would like to do as an adult, the most dangerous jobs and the jobs our parents would want us to do. We…

Year 6 visited their local library this afternoon to return the book(s) they withdrew on their last visit and to choose a new book. They are becoming very independent at using the library systems.