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Reception have been learning about the sounds s,a,t and p in monster phonics this week. They have been flying like eagles and choosing to practice writing the letters for these sounds in their learning through play time. 

We had a lovely walk in the sunshine this afternoon over to St Mary’s church. We explored the church garden, smelt the flowers, looked at the tall trees and felt the old, stone walls of the church building. We also had a very responsible conversation about road safety along the way and the…

On Wednesday class 3 went on a trip to the Staffordshire Regiment Museum to learn about World War 1. Class 3 had a amazing time. We learnt lots of bewildering things and there were so many interesting  facts about the trenches. We watched some soldiers train to do drills .We did activity sheets…

In dance and drama today the theme was friendship! We retold the story of The Smartest Giant in town through role play. We discussed how the Giant was a good friend. “He was kind.” “He shared his things.” We also listened to and sang you’ve got a friend in me. There was lots of super participation…

This week in PE we were learning to aim the ball to score a goal. We played battleships by trying to shoot the ball at different coloured cones to sink them. Can you practise aiming a football at home?

Nursery flew like eagles as they went on a listening walk today in their ‘prime time’ session! We listened carefully to environmental sounds. We heard a plane, a car, a hen, a teacher, children, music and lots of other wonderful sounds. Outside was much quieter than inside school! What can you…

Everybody was very creative today as we all painted a self portrait! We used the appropriate colours and shapes! We talked about our features and the colours we noticed. We now have some beautiful works of art for display!

We finished our Dear Zoo unit in English by reading our Dear Zoo stories to each other. It was lovely to share our stories with each other and find out what each other’s perfect pet was at the end. 

In outdoor learning we enjoyed some relaxing calm time listening to the birds, looking up at the trees and feeling the breeze on our face.

Class 2 flew like eagles this afternoon in their cookery lesson with our school chef. We took responsibility for cooking lunch for the school by picking and washing beetroot, chopping it and then whisking eggs to make a quiche. 
 

I hope the other classes enjoy tasting the quiche we’ve made…

This morning we had our maths lesson in the sunshine. We used part whole models to count how many tens and ones were in numbers to 100.