Diary dates - coming up soon!

Here is a look at what's going to be happening in school during the next few weeks...

Thursday 28th March - Term ends

Monday 15th April - Term begins

Monday 15th April - Year 1 Tennis Workshops

Friday 19th April - Year 2 FPSA Quiz

Monday 13th May - Early Years journey to Windsor

Tuesday 14th May - Poetry Parade with Simon Mole

Tuesday 21st May - Rabbi Zvi Solomons visiting Year 1 

Friday 24th May - Term ends

Monday 27th May - Friday 31st May - Half term holiday

Monday 3rd June - Term begins

World Book Day Wish List donations

Thank you to all those who donated a book or made a contribution via their ScoPay account for World Book Day. We are very grateful to have some lovely new books, as pictured, to support our projects in school. The books have been added to our School Library system and will be available to loan after the holidays! 

Our Bumblebee, Caterpillar and Dragonfly children have enjoyed learning about the life-cycle of a chick. Through observing them everyday they have been able to notice and talk about the changes that they could see. Our Early Years children all got the opportunity to hold one of our chirpy chicks and even had a go at naming them. The learnt about the characteristics of a chick, how to care for them and discovered how they grow and develop. We have all thoroughly enjoyed hatching chicks in school. They have now gone back to the farm where they will have more room to continue to grow into hen's and roosters!

Following on from this, the children have been busy creating some lovely observational drawings of our chicks during busy learning and some children even chose to design a chick on the front of their Easter card which they are excited to bring home today! We have been so impressed with their writing inside their cards. 

During Discovery RE we have been learning about different celebrations. Last week we learnt all about Ramadan. Mrs Bi and Mrs Hussain showed the children some pictures of traditional food, read them a story about Ramadan  and  gave the children time to ask lots of questions. Mrs Bi taught us how to put on a Hijab and even modelled it on some of the children that wanted to have a go! The children absolutely loved using the coffee paste to create some beautiful Henna designs which they were very proud of! This week we continued our learning about Easter. The children have shared the story, discovered Christian symbols and learnt about how Easter is celebrated around the world. 

In maths, we have been learning about doubles. The children have been using their fingers to represent double numbers and impressing us with their super stem sentences. For example, "four is made of two and two. Two and two makes Four." We have also been playing some fun sorting games with different objects from around the classroom such as spoons! The children have had to guess how the objects have been sorted and then had a go at their own, choosing to sort by colour, size, material and shape! This week we explored three dimensional shapes. Some of the children chose to create fantastic models and some chose to print with the shapes. We were so impressed with the mathematical language used to describe their creations.

The children have had great fun and learnt so much about animals over the past few months. We can't wait to begin exploring our new project next term! 

Year 1

In the final step of our Sticky Knowledge for geography this term we played a game where we revised the captial cities of the Uk and described their location relative to each one, by using the compass points north, south, east or west. We also completed our musical journey through the UK when we listened to a piece of traditional Irish dancing music, drawing and writing about how it made us feel.

We have also been very busy planning, creating and improving our Emergency! marketplace stalls.  We decided what we wanted to focus on and worked in groups to develop our ideas.  We hope you enjoyed your visit and learnt something new too! 

In maths we have been continuing to work systematically when trying to solve word problems, such as, "Convince me you have found all of the number bonds to 12."  We have been creating fact families for sets of numbers up to 20 and found that there are eight different ways to show these equations!  We have found the difference between two numbers and represented this first by carefully placing our objects or lining up groups of children to show this before using number lines to compare the position of the numbers on the line. We have had fun counting to and from 50.  We have also been using different words to describe the position of objects and the direction of turns we make.

We have been very busy planning our marketplace stalls and working collaboratively to bring to life our plans!

Yesterday we held our Marketplace showcasing our learning from our Spring project 'Fire, Fire!'.  The children presented their Sticky Knowledge learning with confidence and enthusiasum.

Some of the amazing stalls included; a Science stall including discussions around the Great Plague of 1665 which included a germ experiment to teach our grown-ups how germs can spread, sewing and creating scent bags, Samuel Pepys, the Monument, Tower Bridge, London Landmarks in 2024, how London has changed since 1666, firefighting and how this has changed, spot the difference between the old and new St. Paul's Cathedral, our very own art gallery, trying ship's biscuits and finally Pudding Lane was also brought to life which included Thomas Farriner's bakery!

Thank you very much for all of your support and the lovely feedback shared on the proud clouds.

We are all extremely proud of the Year 2 children and we are sure that you are too! 

Awesome achievements!

We love finding out about and celebrating our children's achievements outside of school!

If your child has an achievement that they are very proud of and would like to share with us all, they will get the opportunity to do so during our Celebration Assembly on a Friday. 

Every Friday, during our whole school Celebration Assembly, Head of School awards are given out to a child or children in each class. The certificates are presented by Mrs Indge to those children who have consistently demonstrated excellent behaviours for learning.

Miss Dexter pops on her Superhero cape each week during Celebration Assembly to present our SuperPoWeR awards. The awards are given to children who have been demonstrating excellent behaviour through our school values of Passion, Well being and Respect. 

Every week, during our Head of School Assembly, a bingo ball is selected from our special red bag. The bingo balls are numbered 1 - 30. Each child in Year 1 and 2 with the corresponding register number to the ball chosen will have the opportunity to bring their Maths book and Project scrapbook to share with Mrs Indge and Miss Dexter later that week. During the Book Bingo session, the children spend time looking through the books together with the adults, whilst discussing and explaining what they have been busy learning about.