Entries by Margaret Joyce

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 […]

Friday, 22nd October 2020

Year 4 has had another busy week. The children participated in One World Week, where they focused on the United States of America. They have learnt about its location and searched for ‘megacities’. They took part in a treasure hunt outside where they looked for information about other important cities and located them on maps. […]

Year 6 – One World Week

Happy Harvest Festival! Our Fairtrade Group led us in an act of worship this morning, in which the class brought forward their generous donations of food. Also this week, the Liturgy Group has been leading us the Rosary. For One World Week, Year 6 has been finding out all about the Democratic Republic of Congo. […]

Week 8

This week was One World Week and Year 1 learnt about France. The children located France on a map of Europe and wrote facts about France, they painted flags and they made the Eiffel tower with lego, bricks and straws. We enjoyed having a brunch with croissants and orange juice. In PE we made up […]

Autumn 1 Week 8

It was a busy final week of our first half term in Year 5. It’s hard to believe it has been over 7 weeks since we first came back to school! This week, we completed our river stories, and I was really impressed with the result. Year 5 were able to create fantastic descriptions and […]

Week 8

Year 3 have been learning about India  for One World Week 2020. We used google maps and atlases to locate India, its surrounding countries, major cities, mountain ranges and major rivers. We’ve learnt to read toe figure grid references and investigated the different ways that the river Ganges is used. Most of the children decided […]

Year 2 Blog 23-10-2020

Year 2 have been learning about Egypt for One World Week 2020. We used simple maps and atlases to locate Egypt. In Maths, Year 2 investigated the properties of  some 3D shapes: Square based pyramids, tetrahedrons and prisms. In English, the children created some wonderful fact files about the River Nile. We learnt about the […]