Before the holidays we planted an Easter Garden and look how much it has grown! We are using our Easter Garden to help us retell the story of Easter particularly focussing on the Resurrection and the appearances of Jesus to his friends before his Ascension…lots of lovely stories to explore and get to know!
Class 1 have been learning the events of the Easter story and they made their own palms to wave. Shouts of ‘Hosanna’ filled the air as we processed around the school grounds. Happy Easter to you all from Mrs Bowles and Class 1. The soundtrack to our slideshow ‘Give me Joy in my Heart’ is…
As part of our preparation for Easter Class 1 have planted their own Easter garden. Watch the slide show to see how we made it. We are looking forward to seeing how it has grown after the Easter holiday when we will be able to use it for small world play and storytelling activities.
Class 1 and Class 2 have exhibited some of their art work at the Kenn Art Show which took place in the Kenn Centre this weekend. Class 1 showed their Blossom paintings in the style of the Impressionists whilst Class 2 exhibited their mono prints of sea creatures. I’m sure you will agree that we…
The children in Class 1 have really been enjoying their weekly PE lessons led by coaches from Premier Sports. These sessions are being funded through the new PE Premium Grant which has been allocated to schools with the intention of improving the provision for PE and sport. The children have made good progress in developing…
Linking in with our learning on Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Class 1 enjoyed a morning of design and technology where they each designed and made a bed to fit their own bear. They used lots of different skills such as measuring, cutting, joining materials in different ways and using their creativity to make the…
Thanks to Dom Jinks Class 1 have been introduced to their first Shakespeare play; A Midsummer Night’s Dream. We all took on the roles of different characters and acted out the story as Dom directed, led and inspired us. This was a wonderful session leading us on in our learning of Traditional Tales and also…
To celebrate the end of a fantastic half term of learning Class 1 had a Dinosaur day. We all dressed as our favourite dinosaur and enjoyed a day of stomping, singing, listening to our favourite dinosaur stories once more and reflecting about the things we had enjoyed learning this half term. It was lovely to…
Class 1 invited Willow Class from our federated school in Kenton to come and join in our celebrations of Chinese New Year. We had a lovely time making new friends and learning about how this Spring festival is celebrated. We listened to the story of the Great Race and found out how the years got…
Class 1 had a fantastic trip to the National Marine Aquarium where they met Marina the Mermaid. She taught us all sorts of things about creatures who live in the sea and we were able to tell her what we knew about swimming reptiles that lived at the time of the dinosaurs. We learnt about…