28 Nov 2025 archive

Halving and doubling.

Hi everyone, In English this week, the children explored the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood. They used the Aiden Chambers’ talk grid which encourages children to discuss what they like, dislike about the story; they look for patterns and puzzles in the writing. The children enjoyed creating a story map and using it to …

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Not I!

This week in topic  have been focusing on the story ‘The Little Red Hen’. At the start of the week we read the story and thought about new vocabulary that we had not heard of before e.g. ‘mill’, ‘wheat’ and ‘grain’. We then followed a simple recipe to create our own bread rolls. We then …

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Lots of excitement!

There was a lot of excitement in school on Thursday morning with the last minute closure due to local water supply issues.  Everyone, including teachers, love a surprise couple of hours off school!  Excitement continued on Friday morning with non-school uniform in advance of the Winter Fair. Despite all this, Year 2 have continued to …

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A hair-raising week!

This week’s highlight was a visit from Mr Crick, who brought his Van de Graaff generator to show Year 4 the effects of electricity. He used it to make his hair stand on end and explained how lightning can strike Earth. It was fun to watch flying pie plates and packing peanuts! In science we …

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