Class 2’s visit to Yorkshire Wildlife Park
Today class 2 have had an amazing day at Yorkshire Wildlife Park. We were so lucky to see so many out and exploring. Some of the animals the children saw […]
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Talk for write in Class 2
In class 2 we have been using talk for write to learn a postcard. We began our learning at looking at what the features of a postcard were. Our postcard […]
Away from the desk maths in class 2
In maths children have been looking at recognising tens and ones in two digit numbers. Children used different objects that they could find outside to represent the tens and the […]
Drama in Class 2
Today in literacy we used drama to act out our predictions for the book Meerkat Mail. Some of our predictions included meerkats visiting a beach, meerkats going to a play […]
Maths in Class 2
In maths yesterday we had lots of fun doing an activity called the biggest number. We worked in pairs and had to run and collect two numbers. Then we discussed […]
Printing in class 3
Today in art we were using impressed printing to create an image in using the artist Ellie Edwards as inspiration. We explored a range of different vegetables to see which […]
RAF STEM Day at Magna
Today we have been fortunate enough to be invited to an RAF STEM day. We watched a forces demonstration, explored Magna and created our own hot air balloons. The children […]
Story openers in Class 3
Class 3 this week have produced some outstanding story openers. They have worked so hard on producing writing that shows the reader rather than telling the reader what has happened. […]
Class 3 begin their artist study
Today class 3 have started their artist study on the London based print maker Ellie Edwards. We began by looking at her work and evaluated some of her prints. We […]
World Book Day 2023
Today we have been celebrating World Book Day. Children and teachers dressed up as characters from their favourite book. The costumes were fantastic and very colourful.
Great Fire of London Workshop
Today class 3 had a morning of fun learning more about the Great fire of London. We had a workshop outside with a company called Alfresco Learning. The first task […]
Finding Equal Groups
In maths this week we have moved on to multiplication. We began by looking at what equal groups means and whether we can create different equal groups using the same […]
Clay in Class 3
This week in art we have been creating clay houses. To start with we had to roll out our clay to the correct thickness before cutting out our houses. Once […]
Class 3 – Golden Table Winners
A massive congratulations to class 3 for winning their first Golden Table of the school year. What an amazing achievement – you are such a polite class and this has […]
NRICH Maths in Class 3
This week in maths we had a go at an NRICH investigation all around money. The problems we had to solve were around Ben having five coins in his pocket. […]
Class 2 and 3’s Local Walk
Today class 2 and 3 went for a walk around our local area to look at human and physical features. We noticed that there was a lot more human features […]
Clay skills in Class 2
In Class 3 this week we have been exploring the different patterns we can make in clay. To start off we had to roll out our clay in between two […]
Maths Investigation in Class 3
In maths today we did a maths investigation called Chain of Changes. We had to create a pattern using 2D shapes. We could start with any shape but each time […]
Absorbency Investigation in Class 3
Today in class 3 we have carried out an investigation to find out the absorbency of water in different materials. We tested materials such as felt, paper, wood and metal. […]
ICT in Class 3
Today in ICT we have been designing and creating our very own Bee-Bot maps linked to our Nemesis project of road safety. We worked together to add roads and houses […]
Class 3’s Healthy Pizzas
This week we have made pizzas. After researching and designing our very own pizzas. We began by making the dough. Then we chopped our vegetables using the bridge and claw […]
ICT in Class 3
In ICT we have been learning how to programme a Beebot using an algorithm. We know that an algorithm is just a sequence of instructions. First, we looked at learning […]
Nemesis in Class 3
This week Class 3 have started their NEMESIS project all about road safety outside of our school grounds. We began our week learning about what road safety is and how […]
My Happy Minds in Class 3
Today in class 3 we have completed our fourth lesson of my happy minds. We learnt more about happy breathing and how we can use it when we are feeling […]
Virtual Visit from author Suzy Senior
Today children from key stage one and foundation stage were very lucky and to got to meet the author Suzy Senior. Suzy is a local author from Sheffield. We listened […]
Excellent writing in year 2
Over the last couple of weeks, Class 3 have been working on producing excellent writing. This doesn’t mean that it has to be perfect but it does mean that it […]
Class 3 – Future Aspirations
Today class 3 came to school dressed as a famous person. Children dressed as musicians, actors and sports people. We spoke about what being famous meant to us and the […]
Class 3 Representing Numbers
In maths today we were learning to represent numbers to 100 in different ways. We used different objects to represent the tens and the ones. Look at all the different […]
Class 3’s talk for write
In literacy today we looked at how we could edit and improve our writing. We added in adjectives and interesting vocabulary to make our setting description more exciting for the […]
Class 3’s Trip to Cleethorpes
After a long journey because of traffic we finally made it to Cleethorpes. We had a walk along the beach and found a lovely spot to sit and have our […]
A Disgusting Sandwich
In class 3 we have started a new unit of work on instructions. Our instructions are all based around a book called The Disgusting Sandwich. Today we started to plan […]
Class 3’s Art
This week in art we have been designing a pattern using the waves of the sea as inspiration. These pattern will then be printed and sewn onto beach bags. We […]
Music in class 3
Today we have been listening and appraising a piece of music called Music is all around. We learnt that it was a piece of jazz music. We discussed how we […]
Attendance Breakfast
Well done to class 3 today for winning the attendance breakfast with the best attendance this term. We have worked so hard to achieve this so it was very well […]
KS1 Easter Egg Hunt
We have had a fantastic morning in the sun on our Easter Egg hunt. It was lovely to see so many parents in school joining in as well. We used […]
Bolsover Castle Recount
Today in literacy we have started writing our recount for our visit to Bolsover castle. We have used talk for write to begin to learn our opening paragraph. We have […]
Class 3 Trip to Bolsover Castle
As part of our topic ‘Towers, Tunnels and Turrets’, class 3 visited Bolsover Castle. We had an amazing day exploring the castle and using our knowledge to discuss what we […]
Science investigation
In science this week we have been investigating how to get a paper clip out of a jug of water without getting our hands wet. We predicted whether or not […]
World Book Day
Today we have been celebrating the 25th anniversary of World Book Day. Children and teachers dressed up as characters from their favourite book. The costumes were fantastic and very colourful.
Class 3 Performance Poetry
This week we have been learning about poetry. We have been focusing on rhyming words. We created actions to perform a poem called There is a dragon in my classroom. […]
Class 3 Clay Tiles
In art this week, class 3 have used clay and clay tools to create a detailed pattern on a tile. These tiles were designed to be fit for a castle. […]
Class 3’s Talk for Write
In literacy we have been working in small groups to create a story opened for the story The Tunnel. Children focussed on using expanded noun phrases to describe the tunnel. […]
Art in Class 3
In art we have been exploring different patterns. Once we had explored different patterns we used our observational skills to create a tile of different patterns.
Class 3 Recorders
This week in class 3 we have continued to learn the recorder playing the notes B, A and G. We have been practising using these notes to the song ‘Ho […]
Class 3 trip to the postbox
To finish our unit on letter writing we have posted our published work so that our grown ups can read it when it comes through the post. We walked very […]
Class 3 Instructions
This week Class 3 have been learning about instructions. To immerse the children in this topic we followed a recipe to make chocolate rice crispy buns. Before we made them […]
Class 3’s Trip to France
Today Class 3 have been on a fabulous adventure to France! We transformed the classroom into a plane and even saw the plane take off and land. We then learnt […]
Class 3 achievements
Today in class three we have shown fantastic resilience and determination to score amazing results on our spelling and arithmetic test. A huge well done to all children.
Class 3 UK Parliament Week
This week in class this week we have been learning about parliament and the importance of voting. We know that it is important that everyone gets to express their views. […]
Postcards
Class 3 have been reading Meerkat Mail. This week we have focussed on the features of a postcard and the sort of sentences we might include in them. Today we […]
Class 3 recorders
In class 3 this week we have continued to learn to play the notes C, A and G. The children have shown great resilience to learning a new skills and […]
Fantastic Lions
In literacy we have been focusing on non chronological reports. Last we researched lions and today we have used talk for writing to create a model text using talk for […]
Class 2 Creation Story
Today Class 2 have being learning about the creation story in RE. We have used this story to create a piece of drama. We used props to aid our learning […]
Recorders
In class 3 this week we have begun to learn a new skill in music. We have started learning the recorder. The notes we focussed on this week were G, […]
Art club
This week saw the start of our after school clubs. In art club we went on a nature walk to collect leaves, twigs, feathers and flowers to create a person […]
Class 2 Maths!
This week we have introduced the part whole model to class 2. They have grasped the concept and even attempted creating their own models using objects to help them. We […]
Class 2 Yorkshire Wildlife Park
Yesterday Class 2 loved their trip to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park. We experienced a fantastic workshop about Fur, Feathers and Skin. In this the children were given the opportunity to […]
Yorkshire Wildlife Park
What an amazing day we have had at the wildlife park. We have seen lots of animals and some very brave children even stroked a lizard and a cockroach. All […]
Class 2 escape room
To challenge the children we created a escape room! To escape they had to crack the code by getting the correct answer for 7 questions. We continued to focus on […]
Class 2 Outdoor Maths
Last week class 2 have been learning how to compare numbers using the correct terminology. To test our knowledge we played a throwing game in which we needed to compare […]
Talk for writing
In literacy we have been thinking about setting descriptions and using adjectives to describe. Children came up with words like abandoned, old and wooden to name just a few. Today […]
Class 2 Talk for write
This week Class 2 have been learning about the Paralympian David Weir. We learnt about the event he takes part in and investigated the medals he won and where he […]
A letter arrives in class 3
A very exciting letter appeared on my desk this morning addressed to class 3. Children began predicting who it might have been from. Lots of children thought the letter might […]
Persuasive writing
This week in literacy class 3 have been working very hard. We have created adverts using our persuasive skills to persuade someone to visit a landmark in Rotherham. We used […]
Maths in Class 2
This week Class 2 have been comparing numbers up to 100. We have used our role play area to compare money and the small world area to compare 10s and […]
Class 2 News Report
This week Class 2 have been continuing their learning about news paper reports. We have used our ICT skills to take videos of each other giving eye witness accounts and […]
Taking reading outdoors
As this week is mental heath week and all about nature we decided today to take the opportunity to read outside. Some children shared with us what book they were […]
Art
In class 3 we have been busy creating a design of London houses and buildings design using pencil. We then traced this design onto styrofoam making sure we were really […]
Disaster Strikes in London
Over the past week children in class 3 have been learning about newspaper reports. We have looked at the features included and learnt about the timeline of events for The […]
Class 2 Science
This week class 2 have been learning about wild plants! We discussed what the most common wild plants are and what they look like. Afterwards we made a tally chart […]
First day back Science in KS1
What a fantastic first day back for KS1! We have tried 3 science experiments today which the children thoroughly enjoyed. We created underwater fireworks, a volcanic eruption and began to […]
KS1 Well-being meeting
This morning to end our half term on a high key stage one all got together to have a quiz and celebrate what an amazing half term of remote learning […]
Maths escape room
Today in our live maths lesson class 3 found themselves lost in a potion lab and had to solve the clues to get out. They had to use all of […]
KS1 Live P4C
This week KS1 hosted our first live P4C session. We used our literacy text ‘Professor Puffendorf’s Secret Potions’ to create a stimulus for the children to discuss. This stimulus focused […]
KS1 Mental Health Week
This week the key stage 1 children have been completing a variety of challenges that promotes good mental health. A key element of mental health is reflection, therefore the children […]