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Over the past two weeks, Year 2 have loved learning outdoors. We have covered lots of areas of the curriculum by learning outside, from role playing Little Red Riding Hood using the outdoor classroom, investigating outdoor materials and producing some fantastic outdoor art. We also learned and…

Today we have been practicing the ocarina. We have been learning to play ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’. 

This week, we have been learning about shadows in Year 3. The children were every excited to see that our classroom had become a dark room. The children worked in three groups and they had different objects, each of which, they had to measure the shadow from 2 metres away then 50cm. They used…

The children in Y1 have been practising their photography skills and using the iPads to take photographs of unusual and interesting features of nature.

During 'Outdoor Weeks', Willow class got the opportunity to go on a walk in the community. We had amazing weather for our walk. We went into Copper Woods then walked around until we saw the River Chor and we did some field work based on the four points of the…

Well done to all of Year 6 for winning our school speaking competition! We wowed the judges with our plastic pollution poem. 

The children in Oak Class have been thinking about harvest time and Harvest Festival this week. After reading the story 'Stone Soup', the children wanted to make some soup of their own. We harvested some cabbage, carrots and beetroot from our own outdoor area and everyone brought in a vegetable…

Well done to all members of the choir. I was so impressed with your singing tonight especially The Greatest Showman songs. 

It was so lovely to see so many of our Oak Class parents at the outdoor art exhibition last Friday. The children really enjoyed creating their outdoor masterpieces using materials from nature. The children created leaf animals using natural materials and 'googly' eyes. As you can see they are…

We have been using the iPads to photograph our lovely outdoor environment.  The children have been learning how to use the iPad to take photographs of interesting natural materials.

We had so much fun with maths outdoors last week, that this week we decided to do it all again! This time we calculated the area of the shapes using our knowledge of multiplication.

The children have been enjoying retelling the story of We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Micheal Rosen. On Tuesday we went off on our very own bear hunt around the school grounds and were very excited to find one! We changed the ending of the story a little so that the bear didn't chase us but instead…