Entries by Margaret Joyce

Autumn 2, Week 1

We have had a busy week, learning about and planning our our Willow Pattern fables in English. We have also completed online adverb activities using spag.com and explored when to use the words a or an. The children all did very well in their adverb spelling tests – thank you for supporting their learning at […]

Autumn 2 Week 2

It has been wonderful welcome the children back this week and hear about their half term breaks. This week was UK Parliament Week. The children built on their learning from last year about the structure of Parliament to understand General Elections. We discussed the upcoming election and why it is happening. The children will be […]

Autumn 2 – Week 1

We have had a great week of learning! In Maths we have been been adding by making 5 and some more. We call it think 5.  We have been using counters and tens frames. In English we read the story Voices in the Park By Anthony Browne. We drew wonderful story maps to retell the […]

Week 8: 25th October

One World Week A fabulous week of learning in Year 4 as we studied Madagascar as part of our topic work. Please look below to gain an insight into some of the things that Year 4 got up to this week: Locating Madagascar and developing our understanding of using 4-figure grid references was one of […]

Year 2 Blog Week 7

One World Week 2019 It has been a wonderful week of learning in Year 2. Well done to everyone in Year 2 for their wonderful Home Learning projects on Iceland! We have enjoyed learning all about this wonderful country and it’s amazing landscapes! Glacier cupcakes were on the menu in Year 2 and the children […]

Year 6 – One World Week

We’ve come to the end of our first half term in Year 6, and once again we’ve had a week full of fantastic learning. As part of One World Week, the class has been taking part in lots of activities linked to Poland and its culture: writing poems about the Holocaust, making Wycinanki (Polish paper […]

One World Week

This week, Year 5 learnt all about Brazil. Thank you for some wonderful home learning. There were a range of ideas such as statues, posters, fact files and PowerPoints. We began our week by learning abut the climate zones of the world and where Brazil was located. This enabled us to understand why the rain […]

Week 8

We have had a great week learning about Australia. We located Australia on the map and have been comparing the weather each day with the weather in Potters Bar. The children have enjoyed learning about the Great Barrier Reef and made their own reefs. Our display looks wonderful with lots of animals from the Great […]