Entries by Margaret Joyce

Autumn 2 Week 6

The class thoroughly enjoyed Christmas Fun Day on Thursday and enjoyed celebrating together. Everyone was dressed to impress and even met Santa! In class they danced, played table tennis, ‘sweet pong’, board and card games, built Christmas Lego models, made decorations and then enjoyed the games set up in the hall by the hardworking FOPPS […]

Year 5 – 13/12/24 | Trip to STEM Discovery Centre

Year 5 have just returned from an incredible day at the STEM Discovery Centre in Stevenage! Our day began with creating models to demonstrate the Moon orbiting the Earth, and the Earth orbiting the Sun. Afterwards, we explored the Exploration Zone, which featured interactive exhibits on Space, Energy (including Light and Sound), Materials, Forces, and […]

Friday 13th December, 2024

          In Maths we have continued with our work on Mental Arithmetic and fractions. In English we began our final written piece: a duel narrative and we are just putting on the finishing touches. This week in PE, we were lindy hopping. The children did a wonderful job at showing the […]

Autumn 2 Week 6

This week, we have been learning about the Christmas Story. We listened to the story and the children enjoyed remembering what characters they played in our class nativity. The children made stables, people and characters to retell the story. They painted, cut, and decorated a box. The children made a book to retell the story. […]

Friday, 13th December 2024

What a week for the children in Year 2! Super well done for your amazing Nativity play on Tuesday AND Wednesday! Your performance was brilliant and it has been wonderful to watch you so animated and happy on stage. All your hard work during the rehearsals was worth it in the end! I couldn’t be […]

Autumn 2 Week 5

We have started a new writing unit this week, based on the book ‘Coming Home’ written by Michael Morpurgo. The class have explored what home means to them, discussed the feelings of the main character and used their oracy skills to perform sections of the book. We have continued with multiplication and division in Maths. […]

Friday 6th December 2024

Another week has flown by and the highlight had to be the Advent service. We were very proud of the Year 6’s achievements in singing, reading and acting. The result was a beautiful reflection of preparing for the birth of Jesus. On Monday afternoon, the children who have lessons with Mrs Martin, Mrs Guerin and […]

Year 5 – 06/12/24

In Science, we explored the Solar System by modelling the relative sizes of the planets and then heading outside to demonstrate their distances from the Sun. We noticed that as the planets get farther from the Sun, the distance between them increases. The rocky planets were clustered close together, while the gas and ice giants […]

Year 1 Week Beginning 2.12.24

This week in RE, the children learnt about The Visitation- the biblical account of Mary’s visit to her cousin Elizabeth, who was pregnant with John the Baptist, and their exchange of greetings and praise. The children demonstrated their understanding of the story by performing it through role play in front of their friends. In Phonics, […]

Autumn 2 Week 5

The second candle of Advent is purple. This candle represents Peace. This week, the children listened to the story Peace At Last. They made daddy bear and they made a bed for daddy bear using boxes and different materials. Then they drew pictures of the activities they like to do when they have some peace. […]