Our Gallery
Year 1: W/C 3.11.20, by Miss Jones
Date: 8th Nov 2020 @ 11:25am
It was so lovely seeing the Year 1 children return to school after their well deserved break over half term.
We have had another wonderful week together. The children continue to amaze me with their positive behaviour and interest in their learning.
We started the week by discussing the importance of Remembrance Day and how it links to one of our school values: respect. Everyone used watercolour paints to make a paper poppy for our class wreath. There is a photo in our gallery.
We have also enjoyed a moment of calm whilst doing some mindfulness colouring. We talked about enjoying 'me time' and how it can help us feel calm and happy.
We also enjoyed having a go at some Bonfire Night activities on Thursday, including firework printing with vibrant colours and glitter.
Have a look at our gallery to see what we have been up to.
Year 3 - What's the difference between a solid, liquid and a gas?, by Mrs Harrison
Date: 6th Nov 2020 @ 4:14pm
Spooky times in Reception, by Mrs Wheatcroft
Date: 5th Nov 2020 @ 2:16pm
We are busy cutting, gluing, painting, counting, ordering numbers, chatting and sharing.
Year 2 owl visit, by Mrs Marshall
Date: 3rd Nov 2020 @ 9:22pm
Year 2 were lucky enough to have a visit from Libby from the Feathery Folk, a bird of prey sanctuary today. She brought four feathery visitors to meet us; a little owl, a white-faced owl, a spotted eagle-owl and a barn owl. We watched in awe as they flew around and did special tricks for us and we learned lots of interesting facts 😀
Y1 - Final week of Autumn 1, by Miss Jones
Date: 1st Nov 2020 @ 6:16pm
Year 1 had a lovely last week of the half term. They have worked so hard this half term and have really earnt a restful half term break.
Things took a spooky turn in the last week of half term as we enjoyed lots of Halloween activities.
We sorted trick or treat words in phonics as well as completed a spooky trail outside, looking for tricky words.
We practised counting and recognising teen numbers using pumpkin seeds and tweezers. (Much harder than it looks!)
We used learnt about capacity using magical potion bottles and used key vocabulary to talk about their capacity (full, almost full, half full, almost empty, empty)
We made pumpkin cards and wrote messages to our friends and family.
We were also sent a letter from The Great Wizards asking for help with writing potions for his new book. The children did a great job, remembering to form their letters correctly, use finger spaces and to use their phonics for spellings.
Year 3's art gallery, by Mrs Harrison
Date: 23rd Oct 2020 @ 9:56am
Year 4 - Conversational French & Worry Dolls, by Mrs Hover
Date: 21st Oct 2020 @ 9:00pm
On Tuesday afternoon, Year 4 practised asking and answering questions in French. In PSHE, we finished our 'Worry Doll' bookmarks with self-help tips to help us feel better.
Year 4 - Art Morning!, by Mrs Hover
Date: 21st Oct 2020 @ 8:36pm
On Tuesday morning, the Year 4 children did an amazing job creating Ancient Greek Theatre masks in clay and Greek mythology drawings.
Making our troll habitat, by Mrs Marshall
Date: 21st Oct 2020 @ 5:53pm
Year 2 had lots of fun making their troll habitats. They used lolly sticks to form their trip-trappy bridges and foraged in the woodland area to find suitable materials to create their habitats. Lots of the children said that they would like to add more detail to their habitats over half term (acorns, sticks,stones, or even make a little troll to go inside!) so if you would like to send me any pictures of this then please do 😀
Y1 - Week 6, by Miss Jones
Date: 11th Oct 2020 @ 7:05pm
Another fun week in Year One. On Monday, a mysterious, frozen block of ice appeared on our tuff tray. We enjoyed watching it melt and guessing what was inside. It was lots of ..... Arctic animals! The children are really enjoying playing with them in the Arctic small world area as well as learning about animals that live in cold habitats with Mrs Bailey.
We also had a letter from a character in our English text, Mr Forgetful, who works in the Lost and Found Office. He had mixed up and lost some of the labels for the lost animals and asked for Year One's help. We were able to match up the mixed up labels and write new ones for him. Good job Year One!
Y2 Geography Walk, by Mrs Harrison
Date: 9th Oct 2020 @ 3:14pm
As part of our Geography work this week, we took part in some fieldwork to map our local area. You may have seen us out enjoying the sunshine looking for the main features of Vicars Cross. Check out our pictures.
Year 4 - Ancient Greek Art (vases & theatre masks) & Orienteering!, by Mrs Hover
Date: 7th Oct 2020 @ 7:51pm
Busy in Reception, by Mrs Wheatcroft
Date: 7th Oct 2020 @ 12:48pm
We are working hard in Reception. We are especially enjoying playing with our new water feature, made for us by our wonderful site manager, Mr Stephens.
Year 3 - Monoprinting, by Mrs Harrison
Date: 6th Oct 2020 @ 5:04pm
Y1 - Week 5, by Miss Jones
Date: 4th Oct 2020 @ 2:39pm
Year 1 have had another busy week. We have been practising combining words to make simple sentences and practising counting forwards and backwards. The children were also very excited to start working in their new Maths No Problem workbooks. With Miss Anders, the children have been talking about friendship and how we can be a good friend. The children were able to identify the difference between friendly and unfriendly actions.
For National Poetry Day on Thursday we enjoyed learning actions to two poems all about Autumn, 'I Hear Thunder and The Autumn Action Rhyme'.
Year 3 - The Great Wave, by Mrs Harrison
Date: 2nd Oct 2020 @ 4:11pm
In our English lessons we have just finished the story 'Seal Surfer' by Michael Foreman. We were curious as to where the Grandfather had gone so acted in role as the boy and Grandfather on the phone to each other.
Continuing with our ocean theme, we have developed of our knowledge of the artist Hokusai and replicated the print 'The great wave of Kanagawa' using our sketching skills. Look how incredible they look!
Miss Yates, Mrs Holmes, Mrs Mighella, Mrs Wood and I are all extremely impressed with the results of our first spelling test this week. Absolute superstars! Thank you for all your support at home. We've loved looking through their homework books and have even started to display some of their work in the classroom!
Year 4 - Samba!, by Mrs Hover
Date: 2nd Oct 2020 @ 12:43pm
Year 4 are doing really well with their Samba lessons and instead of a mini concert in December, Helen and Vicky (Samba teachers) are going to create a video which we will email to parents.
Y2 World Poetry Day, by Mrs Harrison
Date: 1st Oct 2020 @ 3:08pm
To celebrate World Poetry Day Year 2 have been writing our very own poems about the character Timothy Limpet from our class text Troll Swap. We based our poems on the poem Billy McCool by Aoife Mannix.
Check out us reading our poems below!
Year 2 skipping workshop, by Mrs Marshall
Date: 28th Sep 2020 @ 4:44pm
We had a great time practising our skipping! We never knew there were so many different skipping styles :)
Y1 - Week 4, by Miss Jones
Date: 26th Sep 2020 @ 9:54pm
We have had a another busy week in Year One. We have made a whole class piece of artwork to display at the local church. The theme was Harvest so we made a rainbow using fruit and vegetables printing. We have also started our new book in English called Lost and Found. We have enjoyed making predictions about our new book and have practised out cutting skills by making a shape penguin. On Thursday we enjoyed taking part in the skipping workshop. Finally, on Friday we took part in our last Forest Schools session.
Year 3 skipping workshop, by Mrs Harrison
Date: 25th Sep 2020 @ 4:56pm
Y5 Harvest art, by Mrs Percival
Date: 24th Sep 2020 @ 5:39pm
We have been working on some Harvest art to be displayed locally and in our classroom. Here are some exampIes of what we have done so far. love them!
Y1 - Week 3, by Miss Jones
Date: 18th Sep 2020 @ 10:17am
This week, our learning has been based on the most beautiful book called The Colour Monster. One day, Colour Monster wakes up feeling very confused. His emotions are all over the place; he feels angry, happy, calm, sad and scared all at once! To help him, a little girl shows him what each feeling means through colour.
First, we enjoyed listening to the story and discussing each of the different emotions. We then listened to different types of music and talked about how music can affect the way we feel. Then we made birthday cards for everyone in the class so that they feel happy on their birthday. Throughout the week, we have painted and collaged our own colour monsters for our art gallery and made emotion jars for a class display. In Maths, we have practised counting monsters, explored 2d shapes and found different ways to sort objects and monsters. We have also used role-play puppets to retell the story. In writing, we began learning how to use finger spaces and full stops when writing speech bubbles.
What a busy week we have had!
If you would like to listen to the story again, here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih0iu80u04Y&t=303s
There is also a bonus quiz to try at the end.
Year 4 - Singing in the fire pit!, by Mrs Hover
Date: 18th Sep 2020 @ 7:50am
After exploring the fire pit during an orienteering lesson, Mr Sloan decided to take the class back there to lead a Bob Marley sing-a-long with his guitar. The children remembered all the words and kept in time with their egg shakers!
Our first full week in Year 1, by Miss Jones
Date: 13th Sep 2020 @ 11:25am
What a busy week we have had this week, topped off with our first Forest School session with Mr Hadfield. For Forest school photographs from Friday 11th September, click here
Miss Jones 
