Entries by Margaret Joyce

Reception Week Beginning 2.11.20

Despite the shorter week, Reception have managed to squeeze in a lot of learning! This week, the children have been learning all about Diwali- the Hindu Festival of Lights. They listened to the story of Rama and Sita and learnt about how Hindu families prepare and celebrate this special celebration. Over the course of the […]

Autumn 2 Week 1

Welcome back. I hope you all had a wonderful half term. This week we have begun our new English unit on Ernest Shackleton’s  expedition on the Endurance. The children have been captivated by this survival story and even wrote letters of application, explaining why they would be an asset the the voyage. In maths we […]

Autumn 2 Week 1

Welcome back, I hope you had a great half term. Our author this month is Anthony Browne. In our English lessons, we have been reading the story Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne. We described how the characters were feeling before and after they went to the park. Then we sequenced the story and […]

Friday, 6th November 2020

The children in Year 4 came back with renewed energy after half term! In Maths the children have moved on to written formal method for addition, whilst in English they have started working towards writing a new narrative piece based on a traditional Vietnamese folk tale, The Fly and the Fool.  On Friday, the children […]

Year 2 Blog 06-11-2020

Remembrance 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 Religion table. Year 2 took part in a special class Act of Worship on Remembrance. The children wrote the names of people they are praying for on […]

Year 6 – 06/11/20

It has been a special week back for Year 6, as on Wednesday we were lucky enough to celebrate our class Mass with Fr Shaun on the theme of Remembrance. It was a beautiful Mass, with fantastic answers given by the children during the Homily. Thank you to those who read so well and to […]

Autumn 2 Week 1

Year 3 have been busy designing their own dragons this week, which they will be writing about next week. There are some very imaginative and magical ideas developing, which I am very excited about! In maths the children have learnt to round to the nearest 10 and 100. This rhyme has really helped the class […]

Reception Week Beginning 19.10.20

This week, Reception joined the rest of the school in celebrating One World Week. Sadly, we couldn’t visit Italy, our chosen country, so we brought Italy to us! The children learnt that Italy is actually shaped like a boot and that Rome is the capital city. They also found out about Pope Francis and St […]