KS1 Geography – Grace Darling and the RNLI

This week, Year One and Two have been learning about Grace Darling and her heroic rescue of sailors at sea. We also looked at some of the amazing work the RNLI do today! We created posters to convince others to be inspired by Grace and join the RNLI.

UKS2 Geography

How does Mexico make its money? We were surprised to learn that the largest economy in Mexico is vehicle production! We learned all about important economic activities in Mexico, and where these industries are based. We took a tour of Cancun (a tourism hotspot) and Penasquito (a gold mining area). Our key words were import […]

An inspiration to us all …

This week we looked at eight more black icons that are an inspiration to use all, several of whom were already familiar to the children … Yerim, in Year 6 also shared an eloquent review of Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes in assembly, which we have been reading in our book club. To quote […]

Reception Science – cornflour

We would like to start this blog post by apologising for the messy children many of you welcomed home today. We did wear aprons, but still managed to get messy! Both Mrs Woodley and I got messy too! There was plenty of learning going on though! We investigated cornflour! We added the “powder” and the […]

Year 1 RE – Kindness Bingo

Year One have been talking about being the kindest we can possibly be! We have decided to play a game of kindness bingo! Here are some of our ideas on how to be kind! I can’t wait for us to spread some kindness!

KS2 French

Now that we have developed our vocabulary, we are starting to use it in sentences. First of all, we read a description of two monsters, to see if we could translate it using the vocabulary we were familiar with. Then we applied this to our own sentences, thinking of numbers and descriptions of monster body […]

Exploring light and dark with colour

Having created a blended wash to convey the light from the sun, we have since been exploring the effect of using colour to create light and dark. Using acrylic paint and canvas allows us to layer and improve our compositions at each stage. See how we’ve used colour, tint and shade to create a feeling […]

Art Inspired by Nature – Year 2

Year 2 have been experimenting with different techniques to create Autumn pictures. They have mixed colours to create different shades of autumnal colours and applied these with fingers tips to make a ground, practised applying colour with sponges for a sky effect and printed with leaves to create trees. They all worked with such care […]

Shark tracking in LKS2

We are coming to the end of our Blue Abyss topic, which has been an amazing half-term’s worth of learning for adults and children alike. We investigated Marine Biology today and the children were amazed to find that, should this be your chosen career, you can spend your time studying the incredible diversity of ocean […]

Autumn watch in Preschool

A big thank you for the amazing home learning project that you’ve all been working on. There will be happy birds hopping onto our bird feeders for us to observe now!