The Pudsey Stall
A point of pride in our school is the demonstrable charitable attitudes that our children have and I was pleased to hear about six of our children's activities at the weekend.
Phoebe, Lillian, Ivy and Nanaha (Year 4), Imogen (Year 3) and Matilda (Year R) held a 'Pudsey' stall in Bridge to raise…
Prototype chairs - Year 6
Our focus on Design Technology continues this term and the Year 6 chair project progresses well. This week, the pupils have been making prototypes of their chairs from paper straws, paper and masking tape. These models give the children an opportunity to test their designs, structures, and…
Mayan Day
Thank you to everyone in year 4 for participating so enthusiastically in our Mayan Day. The outfits were brilliant. We all enjoyed being explorers and discovering new things about the Maya. We learnt about a few of the many gods including the sun god and the maize god and why they were so…
DT - Year 3 weaving
The Year three topic this term is Ancient Egypt. Within Design Technology, pupils are designing and making necklaces (inspired by Ancient Egyptian art) for a summer ‘collection’ – Egyptian style is back in fashion after 5000 years!
This is a DT textiles unit, so the main feature on the…
Tennis Triumph
Iris in Year 4 has been entering tennis tournaments recently and came 2nd last weekend at a tournament in Brighton. This weekend, however, her training and determination paid off and she gained an even better result!
"On Saturday 20th November, I played a tennis tournament in Maidstone and I…
DT - Year 1
This term we are focusing on Design Technology. Year one regularly practises motor skills within lessons with Mrs Cork and Mrs Andrews; in preparation for this project they have been practising using scissors and a hole punch.
Within their DT lessons they are getting into the Christmas spirit…
Fireworks - Year R
To celebrate Guy Fawkes night, Year R created drawings of fireworks with chalk pastels. This is a very creative art medium. Pupils smudged the bright coloured pastels with their fingers, moved them around the page and made a bit of a mess! They had photographs of fireworks around them and a video…
Ironman - Year 4
Term 1 Year 4 The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
The Iron Man by Ted Hughes is a fantastic book to inspire English lessons. We love teaching it as much as the children love learning from it. The Iron Man allows for such creativity and opportunities for learning. As well as reading the whole book…
Book club
This week book club enjoyed looking at a range of pop up books and we made our own pop up card.
Chair Design - Strong shapes and WW2
Our focus this term is Design Technology. Our DT projects consist of four steps – explore, design, make and evaluate.
Year 6 are designing chairs (Action man sized) for John Lewis this term. To begin, the pupils explored strong shapes within structures. We looked at the work of architects and…
Forest School for Year One
During Forest School this week the Year One children started to learn about our new Forest School area, the opportunities available to them and the rules that they will need to follow to keep safe while they explore.
After a game of 'Hide like a hedgehog' they had the opportunity to choose from…
Year 5 Science Day
BOOM! What a fantastic day we have all had. Today the children have been transformed into: planets, rockets, moon buggies, stars, the sun and so much more. Through interacting with each other and active learning they should be able to tell you about the solar system, challenges facing space…
