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For topic this week, the children researched and then produced a non-chronological report about Mexico. The work produced both at home and school has been amazing!

Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)He was born in Holland in 1872

Mondrian’s art
He first liked painting trees. Then he started to paint shapes like this using lots of straight lines to make rectangles and squares. He liked to paint with blue, red, yellow and sometimes black. He died in New…

The second week of lockdown and we've all been extremely busy. In topic we learned that there are 50 states in the USA and located these on a map. We also explored route 66, investigated electric circuits and in computing discussed and created our own fake and real news on Teams. For writing, the…

This week for English, I set a task for the children to create their own list poems based on the book we are reading in English, 'Leon and the Place Between'. I was so blown away by the quality of the writing I had seen from you guys, that I had to showcase a few examples on here. They really were…

In school, we have been creating some wonderful watercolour backgrounds to mount some of the famous US skylines on. The children worked so hard on these and I think you will agree, they look superb! Can you name all the skylines?

Last Friday, I tasked you all with creating a collage of things that make you smile! Well, here are some of the superb example I received! Enjoy. 

We're going on an animal hunt .......... we're going to find the Nocturnal ones!!!!!

Both in school and at home we have been using torches to find the hidden Nocturnal Animals.  We made the classroom and our living rooms very dark and shone our torches all over to try and find…

This week, the children enjoyed learning through play. Although they have beautiful new resources to play with, they had LOADS of fun with a huge cardboard box!

If your child is eligible for Free School Meals (not Universal Free School Meals for infants), we will be issuing Co-op gift cards, as we did for the Christmas holiday period, instead of food hampers. Each eligible child will receive a Co-op gift card worth £15 per week and this will need to be…

Year One have had a super start to the New Year.  We have been doing some fantastic work both in the classroom and at home.

We have created our own superhero characters, painted a sunset cityscape and sorted out the goodies from the baddies! We are super busy superheroes!

Today in Maths, both within school and at home, we have been exploring the number 6.  We have been finding different representations of the number 6 and finding different ways to make 6.

I was so surprised to see so many different ways of making 6 that the children working from home had…

Year 4/5 decided to look at different artists from different eras and the type of work they created so that we had an understanding of the type of art work they produced.  We then  began to critique each piece of art according to the colour, style, impact and aesthetic qualities.  We had no…