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We have used the changing world around us to help us learn in our play. From exploring in our woodland area, counting conkers to give to the hedgehog and using leaves to glue onto a giant squirrel. 

Take a look at us using tongs to remove the seeds in the sunflower, helping us strengthen our…

In Year 6 we are investigating how to make strong and effective shelters. Today we working in teams to see who could make the strongest structure using a limited amount of materials including card, straws, pipe cleaners, paper and sellotape. Natty, Rebecca and Phoebe's team was the winning one as…

We enjoyed following a recipe to make a strawberry and banana smoothie for Mrs Aylott. We followed the instructions carefully spotting the features of all the instructions. The following day we designed and wrote our own smoothie recipes using all the features we had seen.

On Tuesday 8th October we held our Lockerbie assembly. Since we returned from Lockerbie we have thought and written about our experience there and what we have learnt from our trip away. We shared our memories (and lots of photographs!) with our families and the rest of the school and then we had…

During our topic, we also looked at keeping our bodies clean and discussed the importance of brushing our teeth. We watched a video and got a new toothbrush and toothpaste to take home. 

We then sequenced instructions on the best way to brush our teeth. 

During our topic of ‘Ourselves’, we had discussed the importance of washing your hands thoroughly and why. We read instructions on how to wash your hands and they are in the toilets to remind us.

During our ‘Ourselves’ topic, we have been learning about foods which are healthy for us. We designed a fruit salad using healthy fruit and tried to use different varieties. 

We enjoyed using good chopping skills to cut the fruit into small pieces and some children tried some fruits that they…

Nursery made the most of a wild and windy afternoon this week!

We gathered lots of making materials and made kites to fly. We made sure we used lots of glue so they didn't blow to pieces!

When we had all finished we put on our coats and ran around our big playground and watched our kites…

We started learning about ‘Instructions’ by going on a ‘bossy verb hunt’. We discovered they were all actions that we could do. We wrote them down and used some of them to start our instructions.

We drew around a member of Year 1 and enjoyed labelling the different parts of our body.