Writing Year 6 have been using the text ‘A Monster Calls’ by Patrick Ness as inspiration for their own creative writing. We have been paying a close attention to our vocabulary and using precise words to capture exactly what is it we want to describe. In addition to this, we have been looking at new...Read More

This term our English and history focus has continued to be ‘movers and shakers’, exploring significant individuals and their impact.  We have compared Christopher Columbus’s exploration of the Americas with Neil Armstrong’s space exploration, and we are currently designing a poster in support of Emmeline Pankhurst’s suffragette movement.  In class we enjoyed reading Shirley Hughes’s...Read More

Dragonfly Blog Term 1 This term we have been learning about the invasion of the Anglo-Saxons. We haver learnt what they did for Britain and what we still use today. This includes certain place names like Teynham. As this ends in “ham”, we know that in Anglo-Saxon times, this meant farm or village. We also...Read More

This term Year 1 have enjoyed beginning our topic Wonderful Me, Wonderful World! We have written autobiographical sentences, describing ourselves and our like and dislikes. We have taken lots of photographs, labelling parts of the body and comparing our appearance with other people, describing ways in which we are the same and different, and drawn...Read More

This term we have been super busy learning our phonics. Louie A, Oliver and Reina remembered the phonemes n,m,t,a,g,s and practiced writing them too. Our topic of ‘Let’s Explore’ has seen us exploring the outside areas looking for minibeasts. We have explored sounds we could hear from the building site and this week we have...Read More

Fox Class Blog – Term 1 This term we are learning about Ancient China, we have learnt that there were multiple dynasties which are different times through the Chinese civilization history. It was the first civilisation to be named and it is also believed that they invented the compass. In science we are learning about...Read More

Rabbit Class Blog English We have enjoyed reading Stone Age Boy. The story explore how a little boy one day stumbles and falls… into the Stone Age. He watches them make tools, clothes and weapons. He sees how they hunt, fish, cook, celebrate – and even how they paint on the walls of caves. We...Read More

Maths In maths children have been deepening their understating of place value. Children have learnt how to read numbers up to 10,000,000. Children have learned how to order, compare and round these numbers. We have recently started our new topic looking at the four operation: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. In this topic children will...Read More

This term we have had so much fun learning about contrasting environments; Africa and Antartica in our topic ‘Big Wide World’. We performed our first, class assembly of Handa’s Suprise. In Math’s, Thea has enjoyed learning how to share…. ‘one for you and one for me’ and Dottie has loved doubling numbers to 10. Bluebell...Read More

Fox Class blog Exciting news! We have harvested some of the vegetables. Some the vegetables we have harvested are potatoes, peas and beans. This term we have continued reading the book called ‘Who Let the Gods Out’ which is a story about a boy who wished upon a star, he didn’t expect a constellation to...Read More