Entries by Margaret Joyce

Reception Autumn Term Week 9

Welcome back! We hope you all managed to have a restful half term. Reception have been very busy learning about Diwali, the Hindu festival of light, this week. They learnt about some of the customs and traditions used to prepare families for this special celebration. The children heard the story of Rama and Sita and […]

Week 9: 8th November, 2019

This week the children have been working hard in many areas of their learning. In English, they have begun their new unit on Mythical Magic which will be focusing on Roman Myths.  They wrote about their own Gods and Goddesses and will be using these as a writing resource next week. In Maths the class […]

Year 6 – 08/11/19

Well done, Year 6, for a beautiful class mass on Wednesday. Your reading, singing and participation was wonderful and you made me very proud. This week has been both Parliament Week and Judaism Week. For Parliament Week, we discussed the current political climate, then the children wrote about what issues are important to them and […]

Year 2 Blog Week 8

In November we pray for the people we love who are no longer with us. This week Year 2 created a beautiful display of poppies for our sacred space. The children also wrote the names of people they are praying for on poppies and hung them from our prayer tree. This week was UK Parliament […]

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 […]