Entries by Margaret Joyce

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 […]

Autumn 1, Week 7

What a week! We have been learning about India as part of one world week, which has been amazing. The children have located continents, countries and oceans using various types of maps and have also identified physical and human characteristics in both India and the UK. They have developed their chopping and weighing skills and […]

Reception Autumn Term Week 7

Reception have been thinking about growing this week. The children have had lots of opportunities to discuss how they have changed from being babies to how they are now and the things that they are now able to do that they couldn’t do when they were first born. Reception have also been very busy making […]

Week 7: 18th October, 2019

This week we have continued to enjoy writing towards our non-chronological report on Joan Procter.  The children have been adding subordinating conjunctions and relative clauses to improve their writing further. In RE we have been looking at the importance of being a missionary as this is the extraordinary month of mission.  They have been discussing […]

Year 2 Blog Week 6

In Religion this week we have been learning that the Old Testament has a book of songs and poems called Psalms. The children thought about the meaning of Psalm 1 and created some wonderful artwork for it. We went on to write our own verse based on Psalm 1. Year 2 used their cardboard boxes […]

Autumn 1, Week 6

Firstly, I would like to congratulate all of Y3 on leading the assembly this morning about the extraordinary month of mission, you were fantastic! They have worked very hard this week to master rounding and estimating 2 digit numbers to the nearest 10 and 100 in maths. Next week we will be focusing on counting […]

Autmn 1 Week 7

In English this week, we completed our biographies and have begun to edit them. I was really impressed by the quality of their writing. In maths, we have been looking at decimal numbers and understanding the link between fractions and decimals. In science, we have been thinking about the movement of the moon. Year 5 […]