Wrens and Robins are enjoying their core text ‘The Enormous Turnip’ and have been doing some really beautiful paintings using the illustrations from the book to help. Just look at the detail and colour! They also explored pattern using loose parts and engaged in some beautiful discussion around spirals reminding them of snails. Fabulous!

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Larks worked hard in PE this week and impressed Mr Dougall with their gymnastics skills, focusing their coordination and timings when working in pairs. Some lovely cross curricular links to this week in art, RE, Science and phonics. Busy bees!

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Swifts enjoyed their visit to Bowes on Friday and they all got to make their very own stone age pot  and handle some intriguing stone age artefacts.  Hopefully you heard all about it when they got home. They’ve also worked hard in their PE this week working on movement and coordination… some of the moves were quite a challenge but they showed real perseverance to ensure they succeeded in their challenges. Look at the concentration on Freddie’s face… fantastic!

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This week Father Thomas visited Owls to talk to us about his calling to priesthood.

The children have also been working hard alongside GSK and our Science Ambassador/Governor to achieve a Children Challenging Industry Award. They produced some fabulous presentations using I-movie for each science enquiry completed. Super work Owls!

To mark Mental Health Day we considered the causes and consequences of positive mental health and negative mental health and created some exceptional art work.

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Congratulations to this weeks Stars:

Robins: Erin

Larks: Robert

Swifts: Phoebe

Owls: Kitty

Keep shining brightly Stars!

Wrens and Robins have enjoyed investigating materials this week in their science lessons. They had the task of testing materials to design a house for the 3 Little Pigs. They have also had fun with their pumkins, washing them and designing in the style of Pollock!

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Larks have been making links to their RE and maths work this week looking at signs and symbols. They have also been counting in steps of 2 and 5. I had a lovely time when I went to visit them this week in their toy shop where each item had to be bought with either 2p or £5 notes… great fun!

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Swifts experienced Stone Age cave painting during their art/topic this week. They also enjoyed their visit to Bowes Museum where they handled Stone Age artefacts and made their own Stone Age clay pot. We will add these photographs next week too.

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What a treat Owls have had this week- a visit to Babul’s Indian restaurant to celebrate National Curry Week. They were all able to have a go at making a curry and seeing the kitchens and of course the tasting too. What a wonderful lovely local link. Next year we have promised to take Mr White… he loves a curry!

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Congratulations to:

Robins: Jake

Larks: Jakob

Swifts: Tommy L

Owls: Mary

Congratulations Stars- keep shining!

Wrens and Robins are beginning to explore autumn in great detail. They found lots of autumn treasures on their local adventure walk this week and proudly displayed them back at school. They then went on to use them to help with their outdoor maths learning, counting and ordering numbers and representing different amounts. They  even made some delicious autumn soup as they felt the dinosaurs in there were very hungry and as Benjamin reminded us ‘ these must be herbivores as they only have vegetables here!’ So  the dinosaurs enjoyed a finely prepared  feast too!

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Larks have enjoyed their topic work ‘Kingdoms and Castles’ this week and have enjoyed lots of outdoor learning in maths where they explored place value,  comparing and partitioning tens and ones using < or > . They also look like they are having great fun in their PE lesson practicing their balancing skills!

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The Swifts have had a beautiful week and have really pushed their science enquiry skills picking the best rock for Glog’s spear (class text).They tested the rock’s, permeability, density, texture and durability. The science language was fantastic!

The children learnt about the story of Ruth and Naomi and captured beautiful imagery within their paintings. After learning the story, the class wrote some very thoughtful statements to live by.

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Owls visited Viking Village and lived a day as a Viking. They learned so many interesting facts and experienced the challenge Vikings faced everyday from protecting the village to grinding wheat and crafting pots and farming. We had such a fun day and the sun shone for us all day too. Great day Owls.

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Congratulations to:

Robins: Gabriella

Larks: Layla Mae

Swifts: Alfie

Owls: Imogen

Keep shining brightly Stars- well done!

Wrens and Robins have explored the great outdoors this week and put their sorting skills to work! They were able to collect and sort so many autumn leaves using colour, size and texture. They also has quite a challenge in building the 3 pigs a new home. I wonder what materials they used? Some super science links… well done boys and girls.

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Larks are impressing both Mr Dougall and I with their partitioning skills. They are exploring numbers in a variety of ways both indoors and outdoors and enjoyed the candle and icing challenge Mr Dougall set up for them. I wonder if they can tell you all about it and the value of the candle and pom pom?

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This week in the Swifts, the class have been learning all about the formation of rocks and we had a go making our very own sedimentary rocks! The class really enjoyed eroding the digestives and laying different types of rocks and compacting them down with marshmallows.

The class also shared their thoughts and ideas about families when we make wrong choices such as in the story of Jacob stealing Esau’s blessing. The children recounted the scripture beautifully through performance and script writing.

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Owls  have been learning how the Anglo Saxons and Vikings came to Britain in longships. We designed and made our own longships.
In science we planned and designed our own scientific enquiries to find out which materials were electrical conductors. Amazing team work! Children really are becoming independent scientists, using and applying prior knowledge to further their learning.
star this week is Toby. Incredible attitude to learning but seen wonderful kindness towards his peers too. Golden Broom – Harmony & Mary – washing up after our art session.

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This week our Stars are:

Robins: Gabriella

Larks: Lillie

Swifts: Miles

Owls: Toby

Keep shining Stars!

Wrens and Robins have enjoyed printing, pouring and mixing this week. Erin said that she was an artist like her mammy and then the children had a wonderful conversation with Mrs T to find they were all artists! How wonderful. Nursery went on their second local adventure along to Bowes Museum grounds. What little explorers they all are!

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Larks have worked well this week in English and maths- matching numerals to words and pictures and also capital letters to lower case letters. They were also busy in science exploring properties of materials… they will be using their science knowledge to help the 3 pigs build a new roof! I think they will know exactly what materials to use to make a string, waterproof roog!

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Swifts have been learning their Roman Numerals in maths this week and placing them on their outdoor number lines. They worked well as a team and explored making numerals with different materials too. They enjoyed some cave painting and printing too, linking to their Stone Age topic, using sticks, handprints and finger painting to make their creative pieces of work.

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Owls

I have seen the most beautiful display of work in Owls class this week linking their Re to literacy, art, music, design technology and PSHE. Kitty and Jessica even delivered a pompom sheep for my office too. It stands proudly on my windowsill. As scientists, they have also made toothpaste  and were able to work in their groups with specific roles to ensure the job was carried out efficiently. They came running out of their classroom onto the yard full of excitement and told me all about it. Super scientists- well done!

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And the Roald Dahl Raffle winners are…

Thank you to everybody who bought tickets for the raffle. We raised £59 in total and have been able to buy more Roald Dahl favourites for each class and school library.