Nurture group

Our Nurture Group has had a wonderful term, filled with fun, learning, and lots of smiles! The children have really enjoyed taking part in the sessions each week, building their confidence, developing friendships, and practising important social and emotional skills through games, stories, and creative activities. It has been lovely to see how proud they are of their progress and how much they look forward to their nurture time. Today was especially special as the children were so excited to invite their parents in for tea! They took great pride in helping to prepare and serve the refreshments, sharing their favourite activities, and showing how much they have achieved. Thank you to all the families who joined us—it was a joyful celebration of the children’s hard work and growth.

Year 1

Year 1 have worked really hard this half term, getting stuck into learning across all areas of the curriculum.
The children have particularly enjoyed our instruction writing unit, where we have been identifying verbs and using these to write simple sentences with finger spaces and full stops. We followed and wrote instructions to make rice crispie cakes and, of course, we needed to taste-test them too!

In art, the children have been exploring different types of lines and shapes. We have been identifying and creating regular 2D shapes as well as organic shapes. We have been inspired by the work of Paul Klee and have used his style of combining and colouring shapes to create some fantastic artwork of our own. We identified shapes which we could use to represent our facial features. We have looked at different ways to hold our pencil for drawing, writing and colouring and have explored pressure and the way that this can change the way our artwork looks.

Year 2

Year 2 have been working hard in writing, getting to know everything we can about cheetahs. We are working towards writing a non- chronological report at the end of term. The children enjoyed a lesson creating big mind maps full of adjectives to describe cheetahs. We also gathered a collection of verbs to use in our writing. 

Year 3

What a fantastic start to the term we’ve had in Year 3! Everyone has settled in beautifully and shown great enthusiasm for learning. It’s been wonderful to see how confident, kind, and curious the children have become already.
Our science topic this half term has been all about movement and nutrition. We’ve been learning how our bodies work and what keeps us healthy and strong. The children loved exploring how our skeleton helps us move, and they even made their own moving skeletons and hands!
We’ve also learnt about the different food groups and how to make a balanced diet. Year 3 can now tell you which foods help us grow, which give us energy, and which help our muscles to repair.
In history, we’ve travelled back in time to the Stone Age. The class has been fascinated by how people lived, hunted, and made tools thousands of years ago. They’ve discovered some incredible facts.
We had a wonderful time joining forces with Reception to celebrate National Poetry Day. Year 3 children worked so kindly and patiently with their younger buddies to share poems, create models of objects found in the poem, and perform verses together. It was a lovely way to share creativity across the school!
Year 5

 

This week, Year 6 have been diving into two fascinating areas of learning across history and science. 
 

In history, we have been learning about the Battle of Britain by listening to powerful oral recounts from ex-RAF serviceman. Their stories and experiences sparked some very thoughtful discussion. 

 

In Science, we've been developing our understanding of how living things are classified.  We have learnt that vertebrates can be classified into 5 different groups and have researched the cold-blooded vertebrate groups: reptiles, amphibians and fish.

 

As always, we’re proud of how engaged and curious the pupils have been in their learning.

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