Blog by Nicola Hazzard

We enjoyed a taster session on Tuesday with Gary an outside coach. We practised lots of throwing and catching skills and developed our hand eye coordination. We all had a turn at using the racket and striking the ball! Well done to our Tennis champions who managed to hit the ball over the net and…

Our new computing topic is digital photography. The children were very keen to start the topic by taking photographs of themselves inside and outside. The children were able to flip the camera and take selfies and take short videos of themselves. We are excited to start editing our pictures next…

Year 2 enjoyed their yoga session with Liane from yokids. The children all demonstrated fantastic balancing and core strength ability. They were able to  hold themselves in the different poses and made me very proud with their wonderful listening skills. 
 

The children took turns in our PE session to  lead the warm up session and decide which muscles we were stretching. The hot favourite had to be Ronaldo’s (footballers) trademark celebration which apparently was stretching all the muscles! 
 

In our English lessons this week we have been looking at ‘The Twits’ by Roald Dahl. The children have really enjoyed exploring the characters and using adjectives and similes in their writing. In today’s lesson we acted out one of the pranks that Mrs Twit plays on Mr Twit and then used a ‘freeze…

We have enjoyed using our body language and facial expressions to show different feelings outside today in PSHE. 

Year one used lots of their enquiry and investigation skills to create a chair for the three bears to sit on. We loved learning about Goldilocks and the three bears and making it cross curricular. Well done Year One! 
 

We have enjoyed our superhero topic very much and finished off in true superhero style with a dress up day. We wrote amazing comics, experimented with mixing colours to make super hero biscuits, wrote and performed our own separate hero poem and had lots of superhero crafts! Well done Year…

 
The children were able to explain why we should warm up before exercise and played lots of team warm up games before our PE lesson. They stretched their muscles and able to explain that their heart was an organ and it could pump blood around their body giving us more oxygen to breathe during…

We love White Rose Maths in year One and have been doing lots of fun and practical challenges to help us understand place value and numbers 0-10. The children worked in pairs to order numbers. A further challenge was to close their eyes and their partner takes a number away. To even further…