Summer Term 

2025

We were very lucky to have a visit from the Trunk Theatre this week to help support our History topic on The Great Fire of London. We watched the events take place and helped put the fire out! Some of us even got the chance to help with the show and we all had great fun thinking of how we could rebuild London at the end!

Spring Term 2025

In the circles all around us, everywhere that we all go, there's a difference we can make and a love we can all show.

This week in our English learning we have been reading the story The Circles All Around Us.  It is the beautiful  story of a circle. When we're first born, our circle is very small, but as we grow and build relationships, our circle keeps getting bigger and bigger to include family, friends, neighbors, community, and beyond.  We created our own circle patterns and thought carefully about the people we care about.

2024-2025

We finished our French learning by taking a plane to France! Our day started by making our passports and boarding passes so we could go on the plane. Mrs Jones checked our passports and boarding passes before we got on the plane. Mr Squibb captained and flew the plane with Madame Ferguson as co-pilot. Once, we arrived in France we had our passports checked by Miss Ackerman and then we went to the French Cafe. We were able to use our French skills to order a drink and snack from Mrs Green and Miss Partridge's Cafe - what a great French Day!!

In our DT learning the children were inspired by the story 'The Little Red Hen' to create their own windmills. We investigated how to make a stable base for our freestanding structures, developed our cutting skills and applied our knowledge to join together parts of our structure.  

In our English learning the children have loved meeting he Lighthouse Keeper and the pesky seagulls in 'The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch'.  We were inspired to use our knowledge of freestanding structures and paper sculpture to create our own lighthouse models.  The children selected their own materials and ways of joining them together - it is wonderful to see how they have applied the skills they have learnt during the term. 

In our art learning we have been exploring paper sculpture.  The children explored drawing birds and feathers using a variety of media.  We then found ways to change paper to create texture by tearing, scrunching, cutting and folding.  As a final piece the children applied the things they have learned to create free standing bird sculptures.

In maths this week Reception have been exploring numbers beyond 20.  We have been busy counting up to 20 and beyond! We used Numicon pieces to build cityscapes and represent numbers between 10 and 20.

Thank you to the wonderful FOTs for purchasing a set of wonderful BeeBot robots for us to use in our class learning.  Today we explored the different buttons on the BeeBots and made simple predictions about the route they would make.  It was such fun!

During our science learning we have been exploring the parts of a flowering plant - the children enjoyed making their own representations of plants using a range of media.

Key Stage 1 had a fantastic day out at Salisbury Cathedral exploring both the cathedral and the Easter story.  We spent time looking around the cathedral where we met different characters from the Easter story.  They re-told the story as eye-witness accounts and the children were amazing at asking questions and responding with thoughtful comments.  We then worked together in smaller groups to retell the Easter story using coloured beads to represent different parts of the stories and the emotions they evoke.  After lunch the children completed some more craft and prayer activities.  Thank you so much for all the wonderful helpers who came with us on a fantastic day out.

Our RE learning this term focuses on the key question - Why do Christians put a cross in an Easter garden? This week during our time at forest school the children created their own Easter gardens.  Children had their own ideas and suggestions as to what they wanted to include.  Spring flowers, tombs, crosses were key parts of each garden - each garden looked special and the children talked confidently about what they had included and why.

Due to the windy weather we stayed on our school site for Forest School today.  The children collected and sorted sticks in to groups and then ordered their sticks by size.  We explored our Forest School Area at school and made stick crafts - stickmen, wands, fishing rods and even a dog toy!  Great creativity in all the wind.

We started our DT food and nutrition unit by exploring fruit and vegetables.  We started by naming and describing a wide range of fruit and vegetables.  The children gave suggestions as to how we could sort the fruit and vegetables.  We then used our knowledge that fruits contains the seed, so we had a careful look to see if we could see the seeds.  We finished the session with a food tasting and tasted the fruits that often get mistaken for vegetables (peppers, avocado, cucumber and tomato). 

This week at forest school the children were able to self select their own learning and further develop some of the skills we have started to develop.

Children selected their activities from a selection:

-Mud kitchen

-Mud painting

-Den building

-Bug hunting

-Digging

-Sculptures and transient art

This week in our class worship we thought about our spiritual selves by using windows, mirrors and doors.

Windows

Opportunities to be aware of the world in new ways, looking out into the world.

To wonder about life's WOWS. Things that are amazing.

To think about life's 'OWS' that take us by surprise!

Learning about life in all its fullness.

Mirrors

Opportunities to reflect on our experiences.

Looking inside ourselves.

Consider life's big questions and reach for some possible answers.

Learning from life by exploring our own ideas and those of others that are important to us.

Doors

Opportunities for us to respond.

Moving onto a new path or situation.

To do something creative to develop and apply our ideas.

Learning to live out our beliefs and values in real life.

We started our 'Great Explorer' topic by thinking about what explorers do.  We packed a bag for explorer bear with the things we thought he would need.  We used a map of the school to explore the school grounds and find some clues about the explorers we are going to learn about during our history topic.

Our first session at Forest School was cold and frosty, the children enjoyed learning our rules for Forest School.

No pick,

No lick, 

Be careful with that stick,

And... stop at the boundary!  

We enjoyed exploring The Parks Plantation, whilst hunting for forest treasure and looking for signs of winter.  Special treasures included: bone fragments, empty snail shells, leaves, sticks, holly berries, nuts and feathers.  We cannot wait to go back next week!

In our science learning this week, we sorted different materials into groups.  We started to talk about different materials and what they are used for.  Here you can see how we sorted the different materials into wood, glass, metal, fabric, paper and plastic.