NEWS
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Maria visited Reception
Today Maria from the library visited us to share our Book Start pack story. We love having visitors in school reading to us!
Perfect pancakes
To link to our story ‘Mr Wolf’s Pancakes’ we recalled the ingredients from the story to write a list for the different things we needed to make our perfect pancakes. Using a recipe we followed instructions in chronological order ending with adding a variety of...
Results of our tooth decay experiment
What is a Sentence?
In English today, the children discussed what they thought a sentence was. They decided that a sentence was an idea that needed to make sense. The children then worked together to order a group of words into a sentence and then add the correct punctuation....
Getting into Character
This half term we have been reading The Tunnel and writing about a character who doesn’t like the dark but is forced to enter a very and mysterious tunnel in order to find her brother. To get into character and use their senses, the children travelled down their own...
FoRGPS – Buy Your Child’s Class Teatowel
FoRGPS have asked each class to draw a beautiful self portrait's to be printed on a Mothers Day Tea Towel. Each Tea Towel will be £7. The school shop product is linked to each individual child. So please ensure that you place an order on each of your children's...
Children’s Mental Health Week 2023
The theme for this year’s Children’s Mental Health Week is ‘Let’s Connect’. Year 2 thought about strategies and things they could do to support their mental health.
What’s that smell?
Today we used our nose to explore objects discussing the different smells and deciding which was our favourite and least favourite.
Happy and healthy minds
This week we have been focusing on different ways to keep happy and healthy minds, including sharing things that that make us happy, discussions around emotions and an active yoga story session.
Filling our bowls
Just like Handa we filled our bowls of our favourite fruit to make milkshakes to deliver to our friends. During our group times we discussed the differences between where we live and where Handa lives in Kenya.
What Do We Know About Pesach?
We have been learning about the story of Moses, his upbringing and his eventual exile from Egypt because of his actions. We have explored what type of character he was, how God chose him to be his messenger, but that he felt unworthy of the task. Through the stories...