Attract or Repel?
This week we have continued to look at forces and magnets. We began the week looking at a range of metals and investigating if they were magnetic and non magnetic. We have also been investigating magnetic poles and what poles attract and repel. In English, we have created our own class story! The children have […]
Paper Planes
This week we have been learning about the Wright Brothers and the first powered flight. We compared them to the brave people from the past that we studied last term. Most children decided that they would NOT like to be on the plane that the Wright Brothers built! The children made their own paper planes […]
Music To My Ears
Reception enjoyed a music session with Mr Benson. We recapped some of the instruments we learnt about previously. We learnt that when people sing as a group it is called a choir. The style of singing was ‘my turn, your turn’, the children listened first then sang what we had heard. We had lots of […]
Jack and the Beanstalk
Our story of the week has been Jack and the Beanstalk. The children have loved the story, especially the giant! We have practised re-telling the story in our own words and in the correct order and the children have started to make their own versions of the story. Their drawings and the vocabulary they have […]
Plant a Tree for the Jubilee
As part of the Platinum Jubilee we are planting several trees around school which have kindly been donated by Ellesmere Town Council. These trees will be registered to form part of the The Queen’s Green Canopy – an initiative to encourage people to ‘plant a tree for the Jubilee’.
Roots and Shoots
We are continuing our “Roots and Shoots” theme and the Nursery children have been excited to see their potatoes and seeds starting to sprout this week. Our beans have germinated really well and the children are hoping for a really tall beanstalk to appear! In our Maths sessions all of the children have practised being […]
Reception Children Spring into Action
In Reception we have continued our focus on Spring and have spent lots of time outdoors! We have read a variety of fiction and non-fiction books linking to Spring, as well as other versions of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. We discovered so many signs of Spring this week in Forest School. I wonder if any […]
Year 1 Explore the Great Outdoors
This week in Potter class the children have explored the outdoor area. We have searched for evergreen and deciduous trees and looked closely at the leaves to help us to classify them. Children have become scientists and thought of their own way of classifying the leaves based on their observations. Children have also extracted seeds […]