4 March 2016

World Book Week

World Book Week has been a fantastic experience for Year 2 this year. 

We started it off on Monday with our part of the whole school story, which was passed from class to class to add to it. When it reached Year Six they had the task of editing it. The finished version was read out to the…

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3 March 2016

World Book Day

This week we have gone book crazy! We have had lots of fun reading and doing activities around books. We started by creating our own new characters, out of plastercine, for our class novel Journey to the River Sea. We have also looked at the themes of our favourite books, drawn characters from…

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3 March 2016

World Book Week!

 

This week we have been celebrating World Book Week. We have completed activities in class including designing our own book covers and activities related to Charlie and The Chocolate Factory; our current Book Games book. Today has been World Book Day and to celebrate children came to…

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26 February 2016

Astley Hall

Visit to Astley Hall

Year Two enjoyed their visit to Astley Hall this week as part of their history topic: Homes in the past. Year Two's focus was how technology has changed over time and how people have been affected by it. We found out lots of information about how the people lived. We…

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26 February 2016

The Book Games!

Every class in KS2 is running a competition called The Book Games.

Throughout the year we are reading different stories as a class.  After reading two books, a winner is chosen.  In the Autumn Term Year 3 read The Fantastic Mr Fox and Flat Stanley. Fantastic Mr Fox was chosen as the winner!

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26 February 2016

Year 1 trip to Astley Hall

Thankfully, Tuesday morning was a beautiful sunny morning and Year 1 were able to walk to Astley Hall on a history trip. On our journey we looked at houses. We have been learning about Tudor, Victorian and modern homes as part of our topic.We spotted different examples of houses and even noticed…

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25 February 2016

The Book Games

In Year 6, we love reading and listening to a good class novel!  We have a competition running called 'The Book Games' where the books we read compete against each other.  We have read  'The Wickford Doom' by Chris Priestley and this is battling it out with our current class novel 'The journey to…

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24 February 2016

The Book Games

In Year 5 we are running a competition called The Book Games.

Throughout the year we are reading different stories in class.  After reading 2 books, a winner is chosen.  In the Autumn Term we read Stig of the Dump and The Mischievians.  The children chose The Mischievians as the…

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24 February 2016

The Book Games

In Year 4, we love reading and listening to a good class novel!  We have a competition running called 'The Book Games' where the books we read compete against each other.  In Autumn term, we read The Witches by Roald Dahl versus 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' by C.S Lewis.  We enjoyed…
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23 February 2016

You've got to hand it to Year 4.......we are great at handball!

This term, Mrs Smith from Southlands High School, will be working with Year 4 on learning how to play handball.  Today, the children were introduced to the sport and had the opportunity to learn some important skills that will be useful when we are playing the game.  We learned how to catch and…

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12 February 2016

Making and Testing Vehicles

We have all worked very hard to build our vehicles. They are fantastic!

When we tested them in the hall some of them travelled a long way.

Well done Learning Lions.

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12 February 2016

Pancake Day

To celebrate Shrove Tuesday we enjoyed choosing pancake toppings to taste.

We added the toppings ourselves and decided which was our favourite. Yum yum!

 

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