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25 February 2025

Texture Treasures: An Art Adventure!

This week, the children in Class One became texture detectives as they embarked on an exciting texture hunt in our outdoor classroom! They explored nature, searching for materials with interesting textures - from rough tree bark to smooth shells and bumpy pebbles. 

Back in the classroom, the…

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14 February 2025

Poetry in Motion: Senses in Action

To wrap up our week of poetry, the children in Class One put on an incredible performance of their nature senses poems! After exploring the outdoors on a welly walk at Forest School, they crafted poems full of vibrant sensory details.

The final lesson saw our young poets perform their poems in…

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12 February 2025

Puppet Power

In today’s exciting D&T lesson, Class One became true puppeteers as they brought their fairytale inspired puppets to life! Following their designs and using their preferred joining techniques - tape, staples or glue - the children assembled their puppets. Finally, they added personal touches with…

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5 February 2025

Tamworth Castle Trip

What a day Class One had on their exciting school trip to Tamworth Castle! As part of our history topic on monarchs and castles, the children stepped into the past, exploring everything from dungeons to armouries and even meeting the Lady of the Castle!

After a fascinating tour of the castle,…

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4 February 2025

Wellie Wonders: A Sensory Adventure in Nature

Class One had a wellie good time in today’s English lesson, inspired by the delightful book Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo. After slipping on their trusty wellies, the children headed outside for a sensory walk through forest school. With sights, sounds, smells and things…

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30 January 2025

Botanist for a Day: Little Scientists in the Making

This week in our Science lesson, we traded in our usual classroom setting for the great outdoors in Forest School. The mission? To become botanists for the day! Equipped with magnifying glasses and identification charts, the children set off to study the hidden flowers in the forest.

The…

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28 January 2025

Puppet Power: Crafting, Creating and Collaborating

In Design and Technology this week, our class got puppet-crazy! We explored different ways to join fabric, testing out glue, staples and even paper clips. Some techniques worked wonders, while others needed a bit more practise! The Year 2s were brilliant helpers, guiding the Reception children…

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28 January 2025

Hop, Skip and Jump: Reception’s Human Number Line Adventure!

Today in maths, our Reception children became human number lines! We started by ordering the numbers 0-5, lining up like little champions. Then, we took it up a notch by using our number line to find number bonds up to 5. We had so much fun jumping along the number line, hopping from number to…

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28 January 2025

Oracy in Action: Hot Seating

Today, Class One took a deep dive into the world of crayons when we explored the whimsical story of The Day The Crayons Quit by Dew Daywalt, where crayons have had enough and decide to voice their frustrations.

Our oracy focussed lesson saw the children stepping into the shoes of the crayon…

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22 January 2025

William the Conqueror: a History Lesson Fit For a King

This week in history, we learnt all about William the Conqueror became the King of England! The children were absolutely captivated by the story of William’s invasion in 1066, his fierce battle with Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings, and how he earned the title “Conqueror” through sheer…

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21 January 2025

Exploring Robot Algorithms

Our Computing Unit this term is all about programming algorithms. Class One have enjoyed giving each other instructions and following a sequence of instructions. In our most recent lesson, we used paper bee-bots and counters to explore basic programming concepts by giving simple instructions to…

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15 January 2025

Wiggly Wonders: Our Wormery Adventure

Today in Science, Class One became worm experts! We learned all about micro habitats - tiny, special places where creatures like worms live. And where do worms live? Under the soil, of course! 

Armed with trowels and a lot of excitement, we headed outside to our Forest School area to make a…

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