This week we learnt about all the fantastic Stone Age inventions including wheels. We used our new knowledge to create our own carts with wheels. We are thoroughly enjoying our Stone Age topic and looking…
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Let’s Celebrate!
This week, we started our new topic, ‘Let’s Celebrate’ sharing our experiences of how we celebrated Halloween over the half term holidays. We read the story Funny bones and made moveable skeletons using split pins…
Read MoreLittle pigs… little pigs… let me come in!
This week in Reception, we have been enjoying our learning around ‘The Three Little Pigs.’ On Monday morning we came into school and realised we had had another visitor in our classrooms- this time, the…
Read MoreAll about Africa
This week in St. Josephs nursery, we have been celebrating ‘Black History Month’. We read the books ‘Handa’s surprise’ and ‘Handa’s Hen’ and discussed the African setting and characters. It was interesting to explore what…
Read MoreResearching and presenting!
This week in Year 2 we continued with our learning of The Great Fire of London and researched the events of what happened on each day of the fire. We connected this to our English…
Read MoreDear Diary
This week we have really been getting into character and imagining we are Ug, a Stone Age boy. We used the VR head sets to visit old, spooky, airy caves and wrote diary entries as…
Read MoreSuperhero Day in Year 1!
Throughout this half term we have been learning all about different Superheroes by reading, writing and acting out different scenes from our favourite stories. We have also learned about some real life superheroes such as…
Read MoreTime travelling back to 1666!
This week in Year 2, we had our Great Fire of London workshop! We explored famous people from the event and learnt about what happened on each of the four days the fire was burning…
Read MoreOwl Babies
This week the children really enjoyed learning the story Owl Babies by Martin Waddell. They used story maps to retell the story and acted it out using actions with their friends. They gained a really…
Read MoreLiving like a Viking!
We were so fortunate to participate in an outdoor learning workshop, where we learnt and practised Viking construction methods. Once settled in England, the Vikings built their homes using local materials such as wooden stone…
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