The Courier

Please click on the link below to read all about what the Reception Classes have been learning this week.  Please scroll through the gallery of photos attached to this article.

Reception Round Up - 18 June 2021 

Our marvellous Reception pupils metamorphosed into the most amazing butterflies today just in time for Reception Butterfly day.

The children have been exploring the topic of ‘Growing and Changing’ and have studied the lifecycle of butterflies. Everyone has enjoyed the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, had fun making tasty butterfly cakes, learned a super butterfly song and created the most amazing butterfly life-cycle art. 

Today we virtually toured a Butterfly Farm, performed a beautiful butterfly dance, had a grand butterfly parade, got to hold a butterfly in our hands and then released all our lovely butterflies into the flowers at the front of the school.

So much fun and such lovely learning. Well done Reception you are all now brilliant lepidopterists!

Class 1S held their own football tournament last Friday to recognise the Euros. Each table group played in a round robin competition, and it was very close between the Clever Clogs and the Bright Sparks.

Once the points were added up, the Bright Sparks just pipped the Clever Clogs to win the trophy for their table group. Special recognition certificates were awarded for fantastic team players of Isabella, Alfie, and Harry.

Well done to all of Year 1 for a fantastic fun morning!

Mrs Fisher invited Year 1 to the school hall so she could demonstrate what is involved in playing a brass instrument. It was a chance for them to see if they would be interested in taking up the cornet. She has been running Mini Brass Club for Year 2s for a few years now and it is a great introduction to future musical opportunities in the school. Here you can see some of the children playing the' hoseaphone' which simulates the cornet's tube and the children all managed to play along to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star! 

You will be able to sign your child up for Mini Brass when the Co-Curricular Information for next term is released in the Summer holidays.

Class 2W children have been applying their understanding of words to create their own game with cut out word cards.  There were no initial rules so they had to look at the words and be ingenious in working out a learning game they could play from the given objective. 

Homophones snap was a popular idea!

As Class 6W come to the end of the year, they are learning a few new skills to use at secondary school in maths. They were refreshing accurate geometry skills with protractors and rulers and then moved on to see what effects they could produce with a pair of compasses.

The children in Outdoor Learning Club made their own pictures of fairies. We used only natural materials to make different colours and add various textures.

Amazing results!