Entries by Margaret Joyce

Year 5 – 22/03/24 | Trip to British Museum

The highlight of our week in Year 5 was our trip today to the British Museum, aimed at enriching the children’s understanding of Ancient Greece. We embarked on a journey via train and tube to Russel Square, and upon our arrival, we were treated to an engaging presentation in a remarkably impressive lecture theatre! The […]

Year 6 Week Beginning 18.3.24

Another week has simply flown by again! This week, Year 6 have been very busy preparing for ‘The Way of the Cross‘ service, which they will be leading, next Tuesday evening. Please note: The children have all been asked to wear black as a base colour- costumes will be provided on the night; if your […]

Spring 2 Week 4 w.b 18.3.24

In Re this week the children retold the story of The Last Supper. They were split into two groups and went off to set their own tables, including unleavened bread, cups and plates. The children then re-enacted the events of the story. Year one started their week with their second visit from the Hertfordshire Mental […]

Friday, 22nd March 2024

The children in Year 4 had yet another busy week with some practical tasks in Art and D&T. In Maths, the class moved on to formal division with chunking whilst in English, they have written an accurate recount of the events of the ‘Journey’ by Aaron Becker, focusing on action sequences punctuated by commas and […]

Spring 2 Week 4

Our focus in Reception this week was The Enormous Turnip. The children acted out the story in groups, trying to pull a big turnip from the ground! They sequenced the story, made tools using boxes to help them pull a turnip out and retold the story by drawing a story map or making a booklet. […]

Spring 2 Week 4

This week the class have been learning about Holy Week. They have retold The Last Supper and created collages about Palm Sunday. In Maths this week, they have been learning to tell the time. They have revisited o’clock and half past and begun focusing on quarter to, quarter past and intervals of 5 minutes. In […]

Friday 15th March 2024

We’ve been keeping ourselves busy again in Year 3 this week. Not only did the children manage to practise for and put on a fabulous St Patrick’s Day assembly, we have been taking part in Science Week. This included having a lesson taught by a teacher from Nicholas Breakspear, learning about a scientist called Brianna […]

Year 6 Week Beginning 11.3.24

This week, Year 6 joined the rest of the school in celebrating British Science Week; the theme this year was ‘Time’. To kick start the week off, the children were asked the BIG QUESTION- Does taller mean faster? Initially, and after much debate, the children decided that they thought that taller did in fact mean […]

Year 5 – 15/03/24 | Science Week

This week, we’ve been fully immersed in British Science Week, exploring the theme of Time with great enthusiasm! We started off on Monday by pondering the question, ‘What if there were no clocks?’ This sparked an intriguing discussion. Following that, we delved into the mechanics of pendulums, investigating how factors like string length and pendulum […]

Year 1: Spring Term- Week 3

What a wonderful week of leaning we have had in Year One! This week was Science week and as a school we all had an investigation to undertake! Our question to investigateĀ  was ‘Does taller mean faster?’ The children made their own predictions and talked about the various ways they could answer this question. As […]