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Odd sock day for anti-bullying week., by Mrs Burgess

Date: 12th Nov 2024 @ 10:24am

Nursery Rhyme Week, by Mrs Burgess

Date: 11th Nov 2024 @ 7:49pm

Today was the start of World Nursery Rhyme Week 2024. The Nursery Rhyme of the day today was Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. 
The children have been learning the rhyme using Makaton actions. Whilst in the continuous provision the children have created their own star wands by practising their cutting skills taking care to follow the lines and explored a variety of joining materials including using PVA glue and sellotape to join the sticks onto their wands. 

Remembrance Day, by Mrs Burgess

Date: 11th Nov 2024 @ 7:38pm

Baptism, by Mrs Burgess

Date: 11th Nov 2024 @ 7:31pm

The children have been learning all about Baptism in RE and following our visit from Father Mark have created our own area within the continuous provision to role-play a Baptism. 

Investigating Food Labels, by Ms Patel

Date: 8th Nov 2024 @ 2:45pm

The children looked at a range of food packets. They looked at the nutrition labels to decide if the product is suitable as a healthy choice or an occasional treat and suggest healthier alternatives.

Remembrance Day Entries, by Ms Patel

Date: 8th Nov 2024 @ 12:53pm

Shared reading of fables, by Miss Palacio

Date: 6th Nov 2024 @ 4:15pm

Mary class have been exploring lots of different fables this half term, they have used their magic microphones to read the fables as a class through shared reading techniques.

Play performance, by Miss Palacio

Date: 6th Nov 2024 @ 4:10pm

In guided reading one group of children have been reading a playscript and practising reading with tone and intonation ready to perform to the class. They all did exceptionally well!

Baptism discussion in church, by Miss Palacio

Date: 6th Nov 2024 @ 4:06pm

Mary class had our class mass this morning followed by a discussion with Father Mark about Baptism. The children enjoyed listening to Fr Mark go through each stage of Baptism, they looked at the different oils used, the Easter candle in which the Baptismal candle is lit from and the font where the holy water is poured onto the babies head.

Bonfire Night, by Mrs Burgess

Date: 5th Nov 2024 @ 8:44pm

The children have been learning all about Bonfire Night. Firstly we explored watching fireworks and described the noises that we can hear and what we could see. The children then explored a range of different mark making to represent fireworks. 

We have also been talking about how to stay safe on Bonfire Night. 

Father Mark visits Beesley Class, by Mrs Burgess

Date: 5th Nov 2024 @ 8:41pm

The children in Beesley Class enjoyed a visit from our Parish Priest, Father Mark this afternoon. Father Mark brought his guitar with him and taught the children some new songs. The children in Beesley Class shared their song which they have been learning in Collective Worship 'I can pray'. 

Diwali, by Mrs Burgess

Date: 4th Nov 2024 @ 7:28pm

The children in Beesley Class have been learning about the festival of Diwali.  The children explored how families celebrate the festival of Diwali.

In 'Drawing Club' the children have been using the book The Very Best Diwali and the story of Rama and Sita. The children then used the puppets to retell the story of Rama and Sita. Outside the children have been been exploring mark making using chalk to create their own Rangoli Patterns. 

This afternoon the children followed the instructions to make salt dough to make their own Diva Lamps. As the children made the dough they explored the different consistencies of the dough and what happened when we poured too much water into the mixture. Once the dough was ready the children explored different techniques to shape the dough including rolling it into a ball and flattening it with their hands. Once the Diva Lamps have dried the children will be painting and decorating them. 

Interviewing characters, by Miss Palacio

Date: 1st Nov 2024 @ 9:06am

Mary class have been interviewing characters to find out how they felt at different parts of the story - we found out that the Hare felt over confident and therfore lost the race!

Bronze readers, by Miss Palacio

Date: 1st Nov 2024 @ 8:48am

Our class readers who have been awarded their bronze certificates for reading 50 times, well done children!

Autumn Walk, by Mrs Burgess

Date: 30th Oct 2024 @ 3:53pm

The children in Beesley Class have been exploring the seasonal changes of Autumn. The children went on an Autumn walk around the school environment to look for signs of Autumn.  Before we went on our walk we had to get ready by putting our coats on. We then explored around and found lots of leaves on the ground, some acorns and some berries on bushes near Forest School. We had a photograph infront of our class tree (something which we will be doing across all the seasons to look closely at the changes). 

After our Autumn walk the children used some of the Autumn treasures we collected to make some Autumnal Artwork including; leaf printing, leaf rubbing and transient art. We had lots of fun!

Year 6 London Trip, by Mrs Burgess

Date: 30th Oct 2024 @ 3:53pm

Interviewing in RE, by Miss Palacio

Date: 18th Oct 2024 @ 12:11pm

The children have been learning about baptism and making promises, they took it in turns to interview each other in role of a parent and a parishioner. Children as parents answered questions such as; why do you want your child to be baptised? How will you show your faith to your children? Do you come to church regularly? What is the most important part of baptism to you?

Marsden Class Computing, by Miss Ward

Date: 16th Oct 2024 @ 11:38am

We've been learning about spreadsheets in Computing today!

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Marsden and Mary share stories and poems, by Miss Palacio

Date: 16th Oct 2024 @ 10:47am

The children in Marsden and Mary classes shared their recent English work with each other. They enjoyed listening to children from a different class and sharing their work with them too.

Marsden's Coin Cleaning Experiment, by Miss Ward

Date: 15th Oct 2024 @ 4:21pm

Today, the children investigated which substance would help clean dirty coins. They tested the PH of each substance beforehand, to see if there was a link between 'acids' and 'alkalines' and how efficient they were at cleaning the coins! 

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Cleaning coins, by Ms Patel

Date: 11th Oct 2024 @ 12:37pm

Today, the children investigated which substance would help clean dirty coins. 

Judaism Week, by Mrs Burgess

Date: 11th Oct 2024 @ 12:26pm

The week the children have been learning about the religion of Judaism. The children followed the instructions to make Challah bread and played the game of Dreidel. The home corner was enhanced to celebrate Hanukkah. 

At the end of the day the children tried the Challah bread. 

Freeze!, by Miss Palacio

Date: 10th Oct 2024 @ 10:39am

Mary class have been exploring poems this week. They have particularly had fun this morning having a go at freeze framing parts of the poem 'The Spider and the Fly'.

Wonderful worms!, by Mrs Burgess

Date: 8th Oct 2024 @ 5:19pm

This week in 'Drawing Club' we have been looking at the story 'Superworm'. This has inspired us to explore worms around our school environment and some children wanted to look after some worms in our classroom. After much discussion about where is best to look after worms- we decided to create our own wormery as a class. The children explored the Forest School area and used a range of different tools to dig and find some worms for our wormey. We currently have 10 worms in our wormery. 

Marvellous Marks in EYFS, by Mrs Burgess

Date: 8th Oct 2024 @ 5:05pm

As part of Expressive Arts and Design the children have been exploring making marks using a range of different media. At first the children explored making marks with wax crayons, then felt tips and today they have explored with chalk. The children talked about creating different patterns using the new vocabulary curved, line, long,short, squiggly, straight and zig-zag.