Year 1

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2 years ago
Posted on 11th Feb 2025 by

Safer Internet Day 2025

We marked Safer Internet Day today with a variety of activities. The theme this year is: ‘Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online‘. We gathered in the hall for an assembly led by our Digital Leaders. They ‘scammed’ children into thinking they were winning some tempting prizes, but actually there were some bad consequences! The message was that if things are too good to be true…they often are!

Later on, EYFS used songs and small world play to tell the stories about being safe. KS1 took part in a variety of different activities and KS2 took part in the BBC Live Lesson where we had to identify the signs of a scam.

We even got a shout out on the BBC news feed!

2 years ago
Posted on 27th Sep 2024 by

European Languages day

On Thursday 26th September, Sir Alexander Fleming celebrated the range of diversity throughout Europe by spending an afternoon learning about different countries in Europe. Each year group was assigned a different country and they did lots of research about the country and the culture which linked with the curriculum. Some year groups learnt about the location of the country, others tried the native food, one year group had a zoom call with a native Swedish speaker and others did art work based a famous artist from that country. All year groups learnt basic greetings in their chosen language. We then had a whole school assembly where each year group shared with the school what they have learnt.

It was a great day!

2 years ago
Posted on 20th Sep 2024 by

Jolly Phonics Assembly: Working with our Parents to give our Children the Best Start!

Today our parents were invited to an important assembly all about Jolly Phonics.

The children in Reception and Year 1 helped their parents to understand how Jolly Phonics is taught by saying the letter sounds and doing the actions. They sang the Jolly Phonics alphabet and grapheme phoneme correspondence songs.

Parents were then told about our scheme and strategies so that they can support their children to read at home. They can also look forward to watching weekly phonics videos made by our teachers, showing which GPCs the children have learnt.

2 years ago
Posted on 18th Jul 2024 by

Year 1 Printing

Mr Farlow has worked with our Year One children to produce amazing prints in the style of Alma Woodsey Thomas.

Miss Hullin has had them framed for the children’s end of year gift as they are so special!

2 years ago
Posted on 07th Jun 2024 by

A fun ‘Art Day’ in Reception/Year 1!

We have been learning about an African lady called Wangari, whose determination to see a greener future was inspirational. We successfully used charcoal to create her portrait, using contrasting tints and shades.

Our beautiful bees were created with watercolours and pen and our printed cats were inspired by the work of Sonia Delaunay.