Monthly Archives: October 2023

19 10, 2023

Year 5 Greek Coil Pots

By |2023-10-19T14:56:29+01:00October 19th, 2023|Year 5|

This half-term, year 5 have been working hard to create Greek coil pots in line with our History topic 'The Groovy Greeks'. They explored the craft tradition of making vessels and pots, developing their own designs and building a three-dimensional form out of clay- developing skills in slabbing, coiling, decorative techniques and creating slips. [...]

19 10, 2023

Beaumanor Hall Trip

By |2023-10-19T09:27:11+01:00October 19th, 2023|Year 6|

On Monday, year 6 were evacuated to Beaumanor Hall following their WWII history unit of learning. While there, we became code breakers, explored rationing further, wrote postcards to our families and experienced an air raid down in the shelter. Although our evacuee families didn't meet us at the end, we returned home safely after [...]

16 10, 2023

Pets week

By |2023-10-16T22:11:37+01:00October 16th, 2023|Foundation|

This week in Reception we have been learning all about pets! We have had the best week meeting lots of different pets and learning about how to take care of them. Here are some lovely photos of the gorgeous animals that visited us. We had some sad [...]

7 10, 2023

Pirates and mermaids week!

By |2023-10-07T17:06:46+01:00October 7th, 2023|Foundation|

This week we have been learning all about pirates and mermaids. English On Tuesday, Pesky Pirate Pete stole Rainbow and Sunshine bear! The children had to write letters to Pirate Pete to ask for the bears back. The children did a great job with writing the initial sounds for Rainbow and Sunshine bear, some [...]

3 10, 2023

Nature’s Colour Wheel!

By |2023-10-08T20:33:57+01:00October 3rd, 2023|Homepage Slider, Year 3|

In our Forest School session this afternoon we created colour wheels using things found in nature. We also put our sketching skills to the test and sketched some skeletons of animals and humans We finished the session with a delicious hot dog and hot chocolate. You really are fantastic Forest Schoolers Year 3. Thank [...]

1 10, 2023

Our families

By |2023-10-01T14:24:49+01:00October 1st, 2023|Foundation|

In Maths we have been learning about the number 5. We have been making 5 in different ways and set a picnic for 5 toys using careful counting to make sure each toy had everything they needed. We have been drawing and talking about our family pictures. [...]

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