Entries by Margaret Joyce

Friday 28th September, 2024

Another busy week in Year 6! We have continued with our work on 3D shapes and spent time looking at reasoning questions that challenged our spatial awareness! In RE we have been looking at the fourth source of Revelation: Scripture.  The children spent time looking at the bible for their favourite story and discussing how […]

Autumn Week 3

Our focus this week has been around the book Owl Babies. The children have been making their own owls, drawing a storyboard to retell the story and making nest from different resources. The children have been developing their cutting skills by cutting out pictures of owls to make puppets. This story is about a some […]

Friday, 27th September 2024

The children in Year 2 this week, carried on their Place Value learning by extending their range of models for representation and used part whole models to flexibly regroup numbers within 100. They also spent time learning how to write numbers in words as well as numerals whilst consolidating their understanding of the value of […]

Year 5 – 27/09/24

Another weekend is upon us, so here’s a summary of Year 5’s learning this week: Maths – We’ve been comparing and ordering numbers up to 1,000,000, sharpening our skills in understanding large numbers. English – After completing our first Big Writes (which were fantastic!), we’ve started a new unit based on the book Everest, which […]

Autumn 1 Week 4

We have started to learn the djembe drum in Year 4. This week we learnt how to play bass sounds, which are the lowest pitches on the djembe. When you play bass sounds you have to hit the centre of the drum with a heavy, flat palm. We also played tone sounds, which are medium-pitched. […]

Year 1 Week Beginning 23.9.24

This week in English, Year 1 began their new book focus- Alan’s Big, Scary, Teeth by Jarvis. This book is about an alligator who wears false teeth and scares the other animals, until one day, his teeth go missing!! It is a really funny, heart-warming story focussing on the theme of friendship. As well as […]

Friday 20th September, 2024

In Maths the children have worked hard on learning about area and perimeter and started looking at recognising and describing the properties of 3D shapes.  They spent some time this week making some 3D shapes as well. This week we began our new English unit about the narrative ‘When the Sky Falls’. This is set […]

Autumn 1 Week 2

Our first full week in Reception! You will have some very tired children this weekend. The children are learning the class routines well and beginning to remember some of their friend’s names. This week, we have been learning to sit on the carpet and show good listening by looking at the person talking and taking […]

Year 1 Week Beginning 16.9.24

Year 1 began the week with an online road safety workshop with our local road safety officer, Colette. She focussed on the following: Walking for health and fitness The pavement being the safest part of the street How to cross the road safely Being seen by drivers This was then followed by a class discussion about their […]