Term 1 2024-2025
Garden makeover by volunteers from Burges Salmon
A massive thank you to Burges Salmon LLP (a local law firm) who rejuvenated our garden over the summer holidays. The volunteers weeded, cleared rubbish, cut back bushes, dug holes and cemented poles in the ground, painted, weather proofed, fixed woodwork, swept and...
End of year celebration 2024
What an enjoyable day we had at our end of year celebration which had an African Caribbean theme. The day involved drumming and dancing sessions with Mandinka Roots, threading necklaces, face painting, adorning crowns, creating collages, and making fruit kebabs. Thank...
ZooLab 2024
Last week we had some minibeasts visit the School. Zoolab brought a Giant African Millipede and a Giant African Land Snail which the children were able to touch and handle if they wished. They also brought a Chilean Rose Tarantula for the children to look at but...
Term 5 2023-2024
Wormcity Wormery
Thank you to The Children’s Kitchen who kindly donated a Wormcity Wormery to the school. Firstly, we put the coir blocks in a bucket of water to soak and expand to 3 times its size. Whilst it was rehydrating the children helped to construct the wormery by screwing...
Term 4 2023-2024
Lunar/Chinese New Year 2024
Recently we learnt about the celebration of Lunar/Chinese New Year (Year of the Dragon). We explored how the texture of noodles changed from hard to soft after cooking, looked at Chinese writing and created our own using paint and charcoal, read stories, explored...
Muddy play February 2024
Mud, glorious mud! In fact, if it wasn't wet and muddy enough today we got the pressure washer out to clear the playground of debris. Mud play offers many benefits for children's development. Here are some of them: Developing children’s sensory skills Connecting...
Christmas 2023
It has been a very busy couple of weeks celebrating the Christian celebration of Christmas. We have used lots of sparkly items and glitter to adorn Christmas tree decorations (you can never have enough glitter), decorated the Christmas trees with tinsel and baubles,...
Diwali 2023
Recently we celebrated Diwali, the Hindu festival of light. We made and decorated clay and playdough divas, painted firework pictures, watched information videos, explored artefacts and clothes and decorated our hands with henna. We also created Rangoli patterns...
Woodwork sessions
Finn (Oak Class teacher) has recently started woodwork sessions with the children. We believe this is a wonderful medium for children to work with and the children are currently building confidence with real tools such hammers and saws. Woodwork has a long history in...
Term 1 2023-2024
Cooling down
Term 6 2022-2023
End of year celebration 2023
What an enjoyable day we had at our end of year celebration which had an African Caribbean theme. The day involved drumming and dancing sessions with Mandinka Roots, threading necklaces, face painting, adorning crowns, creating collages, making fruit kebabs, painting...
Woodland area in garden revamp
The staff have worked hard to revamp the woodland area recently. There was great excitement when a delivery of bark came to the school and the children watched as the lorry's crane unloaded the large bags. The children and staff then used wheelbarrows to transport...
Term 5 2022-2023
Caterpillars and butterflies 2023
There was great interest a few weeks ago when a set of tiny caterpillars arrived at school. The children scooped a lump of nutritious caterpillar food into each vial and very, very carefully (using a soft brush) put one caterpillar into each vial. Whilst in their...
King’s Coronation May 2023
Yesterday, the children took advantage of the nice weather and celebrated the upcoming King’s Coronation. Earlier in the day the children painted bunting and created flags and streamers to wave. They also decorated crowns and made their own jam sandwiches to eat...