Visitor in History
Today we had a special visitor in Class 2 who told us all about the history of Colton. Thank you to the Colton History Society for this experience.
Village Walk
Today Year 2 went on a walk around Colton to have a look at some of the buildings we have learnt about in our history topic.
Kings Bromley Show artwork
We have been working hard on our artwork for the Kings Bromley Show. We used potatoes cut into different shapes to print the caterpillar and his food. We hope you like them!
Potions in the woods
All the children at St Mary’s have been showing lot’s of creativity this week in Forest School. Class 2 have made clay mini beasts and Class 4 have made and decorated their own wooden medallions.
Class One had lot’s of fun investigating and exploring on Friday. They enjoyed colour mixing and…
Our butterflies have been released
We are extremely grateful to the St Mary’s PTA for buying us our caterpillars. All the children have been fascinated watching them grow from tiny caterpillars to forming their chrysalis then finally emerging into beautiful butterflies. Each class did a great job taking care of them and all 20 of…
Reading with Class 3
We had a lovely time sharing stories with Class 3.
Paired Reading
Class 2 had a lovely to e this afternoon reading their books to Class 4. It was lovely to see the older children supporting them with their learning.
Shared reading with Class 1
We had a lovely time this afternoon sharing books with Class 1.
Number Lines in the sunshine
In maths this week Year 1 are looking at Place Value with 100. Today we made our own number lines and used them to count forwards and backwards.
Reception Transition
Reception enjoyed coming into Class 2 for some more transition time today. We did a maths lesson where we built numbers on the tens frame and counted objects within 10. We then had a go at recording our answers.
Butterflies
Today we released our butterflies in the school vegetable garden.
They were reluctant to leave us and one even stopped for a rest before it flew off to the bushes.
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A taste of Italy
This week we have continued our persuasive writing about Sicily.
To help us find some descriptive words for the food, we sampled some classic Italian food.
Mozzarella, Tomato and Basil salad
Olives and breadsticks
Tiramisu
All were met with great reactions and lots of us were brave…
