Entries by Margaret Joyce

Spring 2, Week 3.

We have been learning about the beatitude mercy this week and discussed how we can show mercy to others. We have been creative in RE, using art and computer skills to create collages of the beatitudes – thank you to year 5 for supporting us with our computing. We have also published our volcano writing […]

Year 6 – 24/01/20

In our Evolution science topic this week, we modelled the the timeline of our planet and were amazed to see that of a 200-sheet toilet roll, only the final couple of centimetres represented humans’ presence on Earth! On Thursday afternoon, we welcomed a police officer and two PCSOs into the classroom to talk to the […]

Week 3

The children read and sang beautifully in our class assembly today about friends. A wonderful message to spread. Well done! In Maths we have been looking at numbers to twenty. We have been using countersĀ  and tens frames to show how many tens and ones in a number. The children made posters to show the […]

Week 2

What a wonderful week of learning! The children have been engaged in our story The Last Noo-Noo By Jill Murphy. The children made wonderful noo-noo catchers at home and in school. We sequenced pictures and text and then the children wrote amazing recounts of the story. We are focusing on our handwriting to ensure each […]

Reception Spring Term Week 2

Reception have continued to focus on the story, ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ this week. On Monday, they worked together as a class and correctly sequenced the whole story and they also had fun building their own cottages for the bears to live in. On Tuesday morning, the Reception children were astonished to find that […]

Year 6 – 17/01/20

We were all excited and intrigued this week by the mysterious stone that I came across in Gobions Wood at the weekend. Upon looking through the hole in the stone, I spotted an unusual-looking creature in the trees that only appeared when looking through the hole. After some research into this and reading about it […]

Spring 1, Week 2

I was extremely impressed with the children’s volcano home learning this week. We have continued to immerse ourselves in this geography topic by learning a volcano themed dance in PE and writing about visiting an active volcano in English. In maths we have continued our work on arrays. Home learning: Spelling – adding the prefix […]

Year 2 Blog Week 17

This week Year 2 led the school in an assembly all about our school’s patron saint – St. Paul VI. The children reflected on the life and work of St Paul VI and how he worked for Peace and Justice throughout the world. Year 2 sang beautifully and everyone delivered their lines with great confidence! […]