Entries by Margaret Joyce

Summer 1 Week 1 w.b 15.4.24

Welcome back year 1! The children began their week with a visit from the Mental health and well being team. The children found out the yellow zone of regulation and ways in which to help themselves when they are feeling frustrated, silly worried or excited, Thank you to all the parents who attended the coffee […]

Year 5 – 19/04/24

Welcome to the final term in Year 5; where is the time going?! Here’s what’s been happening in the Year 5 classroom this week: Science: This afternoon, we kicked off our Earth and Space science unit, igniting curiosity and raising questions we’re eager to explore in the coming months. English: Linked to our science topic, […]

Friday 19th April 2024

Welcome Back! It has been wonderful to catch up with the children and hear all about their Easter breaks. It has also been very exciting to hear how their Holy Communion preparations are coming along. This week in English, we have been finishing off our Flotsam stories that we started before half term. In Geography, […]

Year 6 Week Beginning 15.4.24

Welcome back! The children have returned to school with a wonderful attitude towards their learning and have worked extremely hard this week, preparing for SATs in a few weeks time. In RE, Year 6 created some beautiful Resurrection art, which will be displayed above our prayer table in class. In PE today, the class were […]

Summer 1 Week 1

I hope you had a lovely Easter!   It was great to welcome the children back and hear about their holidays. This week we read the story Where the Wild Things Are. In the story Max travelled by a boat across the water, we discussed the different ways we can travel across water. The children […]

Friday, 19th April 2024

It has been wonderful to welcome the children back into class and hear all about their exciting Easter breaks! In English, we have started our new unit, an explanation text, based on a brilliant picture book by Roger McGough titled, ‘Until I met Dudley’. The children looked at some common appliances such as a toaster […]

Summer 1 Week 1

I have loved welcoming the children back and hearing about their Easter breaks. In English, we used our senses to gather information about Spring. We have also learnt about past and present tenses and created expanded noun phrases about Spring. Our Maths focus has been to use repeated addition for multiplication. We have used arrays […]

Year 5 – 27/03/24

Well we’ve reached the end of another term, and it’s been a very enjoyable final week. Well done for a beautiful Way of the Cross service on Tuesday evening; you read so clearly and poignantly, making the service really special. Tuesday morning saw the children making chocolate Easter nests, while yesterday featured a morning of […]

Friday, 28th March 2024

The children in Year 4 had a busy last week, filled with Lent and Easter related activities. On Tuesday, the class went on a Lenten Charity walk with Year 3, enjoying the weather and squelching in the mud along the field. On Tuesday evening, the children also attended their Way of the Cross Service where […]

Spring 2 : Week 5

We have reached the end of another busy term and the children have all enjoyed the preparations for Easter. On Monday, the children enjoyed their lesson from the Mental health team learningĀ  how to express their emotions in a controlled way. The children are learning about the zones of regulation, and how to recognise how […]