Magic Mark Making!

The children new to school in Reception have settled in really well over the last few weeks. Before we can begin our Phonics lessons we need to play lots of listening games and get excited about mark making.

The children have loved making their own mud paint and using this to create designs. They have painted shapes and even written secret messages!

They are also showing great skill in drawing and colouring which is going to help them be the best writers.

Year 1 have been amazing readers this week!

Year 1 excitedly had their first dips in the treasure chest this Friday, and grabbed a prize, as a reward for reading 5 times (or more) this week.

All week they have been reading with their adults and receiving DOJO points each time they read.

Well done Year 1, keep up the awesome reading!

Year 3 Trip to Harry Potter Studios!

On Tuesday, Year 3 went on the trip to Harry Potter Studios! We  learnt so much about the books and the films. We all had such a wonderful time, and we cannot wait to do lots of writing about our trip! Here are some pictures from our magical day. 

Year 5's London Trip!

Year 5 had a fabulous day in London yesterday, enjoying the sunshine and the views from the London Eye and the Thames River Cruise! It's given us lots of ideas for our writing topic based on the book 'The London Eye Mystery'. Check out our pictures to see just how much fun we had!

4D's Amazing Home Projects!

Wow! Our new topic of Rainforests has started with a bang! It has been an absolute joy to see children bringing in their very own rainforests. The amount of effort and time that has been put into designing and making these beautiful creations is amazing. It has been so lovely to see children so proud of what they have done and being able to share this with the rest of the class. By children being so involved in creating their rainforests, their understanding of what a rainforest encompasses has improved greatly. 

I have been told that there are going to be more joining our display in the not too distant future so I look forward to seeing them too! Happy creating!

Parents, I would just like to say a massive thank you for all your support in enabling your children to create such amazing rainforests and all the help you gave them. 

Traditional Tales - Year 1 Class Assembly

Here are Year 1 ready to show and tell their adults all that they know about Traditional tales.

Year 1 you were amazing and very brave! We are all very proud of your enthusiasm to act and amazed by your super reading skills.

Thank you to parents and carers who came along to watch :)

World Book Day in 1S

We had a wonderful time sharing books with each other. All of the children looked amazing in their costumes.  First, we shared our favourite stories with our parents and teachers. Then we practised our rhyming skills with The Cat in the Hat. Later this afternoon we shared some stories with Year 2. We also heard stories from other countries around the world. We had such a busy day!

The Great Fire of London

This half term Year 1 will be learning all about 'The Great Fire of London'.
This pupil was very proud to share with the class his adventures in London.
He saw the Monument that was built to remember the fire and visited the streets (Pudding Lane and Seething Lane) where the fire took place in 1666.
He was brave and climbed all of the 311 steps to the top of the tower and back down again!
Year 1 can not wait to use their Historical Enquiry skills to find out more about the events that happened in 'The Great Fire of London'.

World Book Day in Year 1

We had a great day dressed up as characters from our favourite books.

We were lucky to have Year 2 join us and read their favourite books to us :)

Thank you to parents who came in to share stories today.

'Twas The Night Before Christmas...

Well, what an amazing Christmas performance from Year 3 and 4! The children in 3H had such a great time and thoroughly enjoyed using their Talk for Writing skills to learn the whole of 'Twas A Night Before Christmas.' They performed it beautifully! The singing sounded great and we loved rocking out to 'I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday.' Thank you to all of the parents/ carers who provided Christmas pjs! We've decided that we'd love to wear them to school everyday.

1L are in Superhero headquarters...

Year 1's new topic this half term is Superheroes and they have a special challenge...

Today they used their role play skills to show others what powers their superhero would have.
They had lots of fun and then drew and coloured their very own superhero.

Amazing animals!!

Year 1 went to Marwell Zoo and had lots of fun observing all the amazing animals.

Marwell knew we were coming as we had written a letter telling them how excited we were and which animals we wanted to see.

The weather was lovely and we had a workshop where we had the chance to touch a snake and a rat.

We were all so brave!

We will now write a recount.

Dragon's Den in 6D

This term, Year 6 have been reading Stormbreaker - the first book in the Alex Rider series. Alex is a teenage spy who has to use many different gadgets on his missions. This inspired us to create our own, and today we pitched these to the Dragon!

All of the pitches were well-though through and delivered professionally, but there can only be one winner - the Sound Enhancing Phone! Congratulations.

Amazing home learning about The Great Fire of London.

1L have not only been enthusiastic in class learning all about the events of The Great Fire of London, but they have also been busy learning about it at home.

In the classroom there are now lots of pictures, timelines, facts, posters, 3D buildings, books and much more, on display, that 1L have produced at home.

Thank you 1L for always trying your hardest and producing amazing work and thank you parents for supporting their learning :) This really is a great topic!

1L's World Book Day

1L celebrated Work Book Day dressed as various characters. Can you guess who we are?

Our reading corner is used everyday!

1L love reading and using the cosy cushions, cuddly teddy bears and being in the cool castle.

Where do you read with your children at home? 

Our Super Reading Corner!

Today 1L enjoyed having a lovely reading time in our new, super reading corner.

It was great to watch children get excited and enthusiastic about reading books.

They read brilliant and shared books nicely.

Keep it up 1L and I am really glad you like the new corner :)

1S are Building Surveyors !!

Little Pig 1 was so excited when he received the pictures of the houses 1S built that he wrote back asking for a bit more information to help him and his brother choose which house would keep them safe. He wanted to know the materials each house was made of and why the properties of those materials would help keep him safe and dry.

We discovered that building surveyors help people by writing reports for houses advising what materials they are made of, if they are safe and how they could be improved. So, armed with our safety jackets and clipboards, we made notes as we investigated each of the houses Little Pig 1 was interested in to help us decide which house would be most suitable. After this we chose the house we thought would keep the pigs safe and wrote to them explaining why.

Family Learning in 1S

The children in 1S had a fantastic time showing their parents what they have been learning this half term.We have been learning about materials and traditional tales. It has been a busy few weeks. We have enjoyed baking gingerbread men and writing instructions for Mrs Mann. We have created character descriptions for our Wanted Posters to help catch The Big Bad Wolf and designed new homes to keep The Three Little Pigs safe.

We hope you all enjoyed sharing our learning with us!

2S Class assembly!

2S gave an amazing performance today for their class assembly! We crammed in loads of information that we've learnt about Florence Nightingale. There were some very clever nurses in Southampton General who told the story of Scutari Hospital in the Crimean War. Some children also showed off their super writing in role as Billy, a soldier who was treated by Florence Nightingale. Here's us doing a fantastic job!

If you want to sing along with us and hear the song we sang, click here!

Well done 2S, I'm so proud of you :)!

Run, run as fast as you can, you can't catch me I'm the Gingerbread Man!

1L's Traditional Tale came to life!

As parents may know we have been learning all about the Gingerbread Man and his story.

Today as part of our cross curricular lessons of DT and English we made Gingerbread Men.

We followed instructions in order and had so much fun rolling, pressing and cutting.

Next week we will write instructions on how to make these.

So watch out for this recipe in our book bags parents!

You can make this lovely treats at home too :)