Mar 07 2025
Where are the weeks going? Time is certainly flying in Year 2 and things are looking up now that it is light in the mornings and the sun is shining! A highlight of the week has definitely been ‘World Book Day’. It was so lovely to see the excitement on everyone’s faces wearing their costumes …
Mar 07 2025
We’ve made it to the end of a very exciting week in Year 4! Year 4’s big event of the week was the trip to the Guru Nanak Gurdwara in Luton as part of our RE understanding of Sikhi. We were so impressed by how hard all of the children worked to be respectful as …
Feb 14 2025
We have been very busy in Reception this week as the children became authors and wrote their own books all about dinosaurs! They each choose different dinosaurs to draw and write a fact they had learnt about this dinosaur. We focused on using our segmenting and blending strategies for writing such as ‘robot arms’. We …
Jan 31 2025
Wow, what a week in Year 3! Our feeling of the week was interesting and I think all the children and staff in Year 3 found our learning very interesting this week. Early in the week we investigated which materials make good shadows. We learnt that opaque materials make the best shadows and we were …
Jan 24 2025
We have had an exciting week full of interesting discoveries, in DT we surveyed our classes and discovered that while Amber class prefer pepperoni pizza and ham and pineapple pizza, Vermillion like BBQ chicken! Everyone recorded the data in a tally chart and they drew a graph to show our findings. We also found out …
Dec 19 2024
Wow, what a lovely busy term we have had in Year 2. There are so many fun things to look back at throughout this term from the visit of Animal Man, raising money to support environmental issues to proudly performing in front of families. Everyone has worked so hard and we hope that you all …
Dec 13 2024
Christmas has arrived and it is looking particularly festive in the Year 2 classrooms. To continue with the festive theme, we have started to look at Meerkat Christmas. The children will be using the adventures of Sunny to write diary entries. The children’s writing has got better and better as the week has progressed. In …
Dec 06 2024
This week in English, we have been exploring root words and the -er, -est suffixes in more detail. We learnt rules that involve listening out for long vowel sounds and short vowel sounds in the root word to help us decide if we need to just add the suffix or change something before adding it …
Nov 29 2024
This week, in English, we have been changing parts of the familiar story Rapunzel to create our own version i.e. changing Rapunzel into a snake, the tower into a clock tower and the witch into a wizard. We thought carefully about our sentence structures, adding in adjectives to help create noun phrases. We have been …
Nov 25 2024
Our English lessons have been fun this week as we absorbed ourselves in Bethan Woolvin’s version of Rapunzel. We have designed ‘wanted’ posters to find the evil witch, sequenced the story onto a story mountain, created a visual story map and retold the story by using actions. We feel ready to write our own version …
