Blog Author: rparmley

May 2024

We have been very busy this term in outdoor learning focussing on science! We have looked for flowers and trees that grow within the school grounds.  We have sorted wild and garden flowers. We have also planted our own seeds and have been delighted to see some of our seeds grow,…

Year 5

Year 5 finished the spring term in style by taking part in the Year 5 dance festival. The children performed a dance to the Eye of the Tiger and made us very proud with their energy and enthusiasm.

In April Year 5 had an exciting trip to the British Museum to link with our topic on…

LOTC –18.4.24

Maths

Making number equations using natural materials in our forest school. 

LOTC – 25.4.24

English

Writing and performing our persuasive speeches.

LOTC -2.5.24

PHSE

Mindfulness cards.

April 2024

We have got back off to a busy start in the summer term. We had Miss Moxham come and visit us from Stanborough School to teach us about tri-golf. We did a carousel of activities where we learnt the different skills required to play golf such as putting and chipping. We had a…

April 2024

We have been very busy this term in outdoor learning! We have taken our science learning outside to begin our science topic ‘Plants and Growth’. We went on an environment walk and became ‘flower detectives’, trying to identify which plants or flowers grow within the…

26.04.24

Reception have been learning about different minibeasts and where we might find them. We decided to go on a mini-beast hunt at forest school to look for them!

“There is a pond skater!”

“I can see a water snail around the pond!”

“There are lots of worms under the wood!”

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22.04.24

Nursery have started to talk about measuring length in Maths and using the correct language such as longer and shorter. We also spoke about the fact that we can measure the length of different objects using our feet! In pairs, we then went outside and used our feet to measure…

Photo Map trail              April 2024

In our LOTC lesson today, Miss Parmley explained to us that we were going to going on a photo map trail. She had taken different pictures of objects in the outside environment. We had to work with a partner to find the objects and write down where we had…

26.02.24

After introducing our new Maths topic ‘Position’, Nursery completed an obstacle course following positional language. We stepped inside the hoops and put it over the top of our heads, jumped on top of the mats, ran in between the cones and ran around the tree 5 times!

“I went…

01.03.24

Reception has been learning about measuring in Maths. We spoke about the fact that we can measure the length of different objects using non-standard measures such as our feet or hands! In pairs, we then went outside and used our feet to measure lots of different objects and recorded it…

Spring Walk 

During our learning outside the classroom lesson this week, we explored the field hunting for some daffodil flowers. Once, we found the flowers we sat down on a patch of grass nearby and sketched them out, looking closely at their features. Some of us even labelled our pictures and discussed what…