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To mark the end of our topic 'Alchemy Island', the children were tasked with the job of creating a soundtrack for a computer game based around Alchemy Island.

The children used the computers to create a mood board for their soundtrack and then they used Garageband on the iPads to create their…

We were very lucky today as we enjoyed an 'Afternoon Tea' for our school lunch.

There were so many delicious sandwiches, sausage rolls, quiches, cakes and other treats to choose from.

We love school dinners!!

We were so lucky today as we enjoyed an 'Afternoon Tea' for our school lunch.

There were so many delicious sandwiches, sausage rolls, quiches, cakes and other treats to choose from. 

We were spoilt for choice - yummy, yummy!!!

Mrs Channing was impressed that we remembered our manners when…

This week, the children have been finishing their current topic 'Alchemy Island' with their Innovate Projects. They were set this task:

The UK’s largest video game company is making a new game based on your adventure on Alchemy Island.
The game needs a soundtrack that will wow gamers as they…

Last week, we were using tin foil, thick string and sharpie pens to make our embossed foil pieces. We started by designing our artwork, then translated it to card by gluing the string in to the desired pattern. The tricky part came when we had to wrap the board in foil, ensuring that the string…

 These are our 8 steps to keep you safe online this month

1. Explore together: Ask your child to show you their favourite websites and apps and what they do on them. Listen, show interest and encourage them to teach you the basics of the site or app.

2. Chat little and often…

We love to display the children's work across our nursery. The children often walk around and can see their beautiful work displayed. This gives us the opportunity to talk to the children about what we have learnt about in nursery this term.

 The children often like to show other members of…

Today I felt so proud of the children who had a go at writing sentences all about the bear from story we read called Goldilocks and just the 1 bear and the traditional tale of Goldilocks and the 3 bears.

We used the Goldilocks word mat to help us spell some of the words from the story and the…

The children love spending time in our outdoor area. We provide a stimulating and safe environment where the children can learn, play, explore and take risks.

Risky play allows children to challenge themselves on many levels:

• Physically – by climbing a little higher, running a little…

We really enjoyed practising our ball skills during PE today.  Being able to control a ball when throwing, catching, passing and kicking can be really tricky and we were fantastic.

We warmed our bodies up by hopping, skipping, running and slithering around the hall.  We tried really hard to…

In Maths, we have been learning to tell the time to the nearest 15 minutes on an analogue clock.

In Literacy, we wrote adverts for a variety of anti-bounce products to help the Mr Man, Mr Bounce!

In Topic, we found out why exercise is so important for us, and monitored our…

A very exciting week in year 1!  You won’t believe it, but we had some escaped animals wandering around! You can watch the video on Teams if you haven’t seen it already!  We had to call the zookeepers to come and take them away!

Afterwards, we decided to find out more about the very important…