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For Children’s Mental Health awareness week 2021 we spoke about what makes us happy in Nursery. The children who are in Nursery said baking and their friends, which is always nice to hear. Our children at home were happy when they were baking, colouring, dancing and even eating chocolate! We also…

After reading the story ‘Superworm’, the Nursery children who are at home made their own Superworms with playdough, beads or bricks. Superworm to the rescue! 
 

Year 4 have been learning how to create perspective and depth in landscape art. 

Today, Tuesday, 9 February 2021, we celebrated the 18th edition of Safer Internet Day. This year’s theme was “Together for a better internet". Y6 discussed ways to make the internet a safer and better place for all, and especially for children and young people. They also took on the challenge of…

Year 4 explored different ways to look after one another’s mental health.

We had lots of fun this week! Our story was the Smartest Giant in Town by Julia Donaldson and we used this to think about our PSHE, particularly mental health.  We did lots of talking about emotions and what makes us happy! We know that we must talk about worries if we have them but we can also…

Year 1 are using a range of resources to support their Maths learning at home.  It’s amazing what you can use in the house to help you learn.  We were amazed to find how many 3D shapes exist in our homes.  To help us make tens and ones we found Lego to be really helpful.  Pasta, chocolate,…

Year 1 talked about the passing of Captain Sir Tom Moore in their daily Zoom lesson. We wanted to pay tribute to this wonderful man.  The children created pictures, prayers and words of thanks to celebrate his life and contribution to our country. 
 

As part of Mental Health Awareness Week we asked Year 1 to think about What makes you happy?
Year 1 responded by sending in photos to show the range of things that make them feel happy.  We chatted in our Zoom lesson to explain more.  The children spoke of having brothers and sisters to play with…

During the week of 1st - 5th February 2021 Year 2 celebrated Children’s Mental Health Week. This year’s theme was to Express Yourself. The children took part in a range of activities from mindfulness sessions to creative activities. They spent some time exploring their feelings through the story…

During Mental Health awareness week Y5 learnt about the importance of Well being and made posters to show how this can be achieved. We discussed what we like doing to make us feel happy and made worry boxes to put all our worries in so we can focus on happy things instead.

Year 5 have been reading 'The Firework Maker’s Daughter’ and were asked to design a firework that could help Lila and Lalchand win the competition! I think you’ll agree we have some future pyrotechnicians in the making!