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30th April 21

Form III were very excited to receive a visit from a local ‘chocolatier’ this week. Last term we read ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’, and learnt all about ‘Cocoa and the History of Chocolate’ in Humanities, so it made perfect sense to conclude these topics, when we were allowed! The class were able to make…

30th April 21

We had a surprise trip to the moon on Monday morning. We listened carefully to ‘One Giant Leap; The Story of Neil Armstrong’ and acted out the story. We loved taking on the roles of Neil, Buzz and Michael. We enjoyed hearing about Neil’s life from early childhood and his love of aeroplanes to getting…

30th April 21

Wow what a week! Form I have had a great experience learning about the boil and toil of Victorian washing, using our mangle and other implements to learn how hard their forebears worked to keep things clean. We also ran our daily mile.

27th April 21

Today we started our new topic work on ‘The Life Cycle of the Butterfly’. In our adult led activity we read the story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ and used a story sack with props to act out the story. We learnt about the way that the caterpillar had to eat lots of food before hiding…

23rd April 21

It was so lovely to welcome everyone back today and to welcome our new friends Chloe and Arlo. This term we are learning about ‘Animals’ and today we learnt about the animals that live in the ‘Rainforest’. We looked at an information book to learn the names of different animals and which part of the…

26th March 21

We enjoyed a fun filled day on Monday, starting with Busy Fingers. We enjoyed painting with friends, drawing pictures and putting together an Animals of the World puzzle. In Literacy, we loved learning about Easter. We then decided what we wanted to write in our Easter cards and wrote our cards so well using our…

25th March 21

We welcomed the children back to the Nursery classroom on a lovely sunny Monday morning!  We started with a super Busy Fingers session where the children began to make their beautiful  Easter cards. After this we introduced the new topic for the week of ‘Mythical Creatures and Extinct Animals’.  The children were engrossed during the…

19th March 21

We hope everyone enjoyed a relaxing Mother’s Day yesterday! On Monday in Literacy, we took an imaginary trip to Australia. We learnt about the Great Barrier Reef and enjoyed a story about a Rainbow Fish who wouldn’t share his shiny silver scales. We decided to become authors ourselves and each written a sentence about an…

17th March 21

Form IV are learning about materials and states of matter. Today we tried to decide what state of matter shaving foam is and then we made a mystery substance called oobleck! It was a lot of fun, a lot of mess in the Science Lab, but we also did a lot of learning.  

17th March 21

This week in our topic work on ‘Animals’ will be learning about ‘Farm Animals’. To start the week off we had lots of ‘Busy Fingers’ farm animal themed activities. We used tap-a-shape to make farm animal pictures and some of us wrote captions to accompany them. Others of us used our ever increasing cutting skills…