Reception: Aliens Love Underpants
We have had out-of-this-world fun in Reception this week exploring our story of the week, Aliens Love Underpants! The children have been thoroughly engaged in reading and retelling the hilarious tale, bringing the story to life across all areas of our provision. Taking inspiration from our handwriting sessions, the children have been busy making marks and practising their letter formation directly onto cut-out underpants. Over in the malleable area, little hands were hard at work shaping, squeezing, and decorating their very own playdough aliens, while our creative station saw vibrant alien portraits painted with endless imagination. In maths, the children put their counting skills to the test by matching and placing the correct number of stars onto different spaceships.
Reception: Handwriting
Our Reception children have been working so hard in their handwriting sessions! To get ready for writing, we start each session with a fun hand workout—doing thumb pushes, palm crouches, finger taps, and finger lifts to build up those vital fine motor muscles. The children have been putting a huge effort into using a comfortable tripod grip as they explore basic pre-writing shapes, laying fantastic foundations for forming their letters. We are so proud of their focus and determination!
Keep Fit Club
Today at Keep Fit Club, our Key Stage 2 children enjoyed a fantastic, action-packed session out in the sunshine! We made the absolute most of the beautiful weather by taking a trip around Whitehall Park, where everyone worked hard on their stamina with a brisk walk, jog, and run. As a reward for all their great energy and effort, the children got to enjoy a fun treat on the playground. To wrap up our workout, we headed over to the MUGA and outdoor gym to finish off our fitness routine on a high note. Thank you for ensuring they came prepared—they all did a brilliant job today!
Ready, Set, Read in Year 4
Today we took part in the Ready, Set, Read! Live Author Sessions - Ages 7-9: Inside the World of Stories. It was a free virtual primary live lesson hosted by Picture News as part of the National Year of Reading. We had the opportunity to join live chats, draw a character from a book - Tiny Hercules and find out so much from various authors who joined the session. Being able to explore the creative process behind storytelling, really got the children's imaginations going and they absolutely loved taking part.
Year 5 - Science
In science, we looked at how the Earth moves through space and how this creates day, night and the seasons. After going through the concepts and vocabulary, the children used torches to mimic the light and heat from the Sun and table tennis balls to mimic the Earth. By rotating the ball on its axis, the children saw how sides faced towards and away from the light, creating day and night. Then the children moved the ball around the torch, with different hemispheres receiving different amounts of light over the course of its orbit, creating winter and summer.
Year 6 - Place Value
Today in Year 6, the children focused on the mechanics of place value, exploring how numbers change when multiplying by 10, 100 and 1,000. Using place value charts, the children developed their understanding of how each digit moves between columns and how its value changes when multiplied by powers of 10. They used this understanding to explain their reasoning and identify patterns within the numbers.
Wire sculpture in Year 4
In our art lesson we explored how shapes can be formed and joined in wire. We bent the wire to make different shapes, joined it with twists and loops and added detail using smaller pieces of wire. We created some fantastic sculptures which included cars, humming birds and dragonflies.
Year 1 Geography: Searching for clues about seasons
In Geography, we searched for clues to decide what season we are in. We looked for information about the colours of leaves, the weather and the plants. We were able to find some red and orange leaves, leaves on the ground and we had some windy and rainy weather which helped us to decide that we were in Autumn.
Little Gardeners Club: Bug Hotels
Today in Little Gardeners Club, we became mini wildlife architects and made our very own bug hotels! We started by exploring the school grounds and collecting natural materials such as sticks, leaves, bark and other bits and pieces that bugs love. We then used our materials to create cosy little homes for insects and minibeasts. Once our bug hotels were finished, we placed them around the school perimeter, ready to provide shelter for our garden visitors. We had lots of fun getting creative while also helping to support the wildlife around our school!
Year 1&2 Lunchtime Games Club
Another great lunchtime games club. Some of us had a huge stroke of luck this week whilst others were a bit unlucky but we all had lots of fun all the same! We played ‘Pizza, Pizza’ again as it was a favourite last week and lots of us also played ‘Don’t Wake Mr McGregor,’ ‘Shopping List’ and ‘Dinosaur Number Eggs’. We hope to introduce a couple of new games again next week. Well done everyone!
Netball Club
Tonight was our second netball club of the year and it was great to see lots of enthusiasm and eagerness to improve skills, especially speed and agility. We also worked on tactics and how to dodge in and out of space.
Boccia and New Age Kurling in Year 4
We have really worked hard in Year 4 to develop our skills in Boccia over the past few weeks. Today we looked at how to be patient and knock the opponents balls away from the target. As we are getting so good at this sport we also introduced New Age Kurling which is an indoor, ice-free adaptation of traditional winter curling designed to be completely inclusive for players of all ages and physical abilities. The children loved this addition and wanted to play all afternoon.
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