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26January2024

Visit From The Zoo- Week 2!

To end the week in Skylark Class, Marrisa from Chester Zoo came to visit school and take us one step further on our journey to being more connected to the wildlife in our school, local area and surrounding areas. We looked at how we can contribute to helping wildlife thrive. We discussed what wildlife will […]

17November2023

Magnificent, Magical Maths

Maths week, one of the best weeks in the school year. A week where we can explore the world of maths freely. This week, Skylark Class delved in to the world of maths by exploring different strands from measure, to place value skills we covered it all (well nearly). The class enjoyed getting hands on […]

07October2023

Enhancing the Curriculum- The Skylark Way

This week Skylark Class have been using their iPads as much as possible to enhance the curriculum. The highlight of the week was definitely recording voice notes to use in their podcast all about Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The class will continue to use these in the coming weeks and will be sharing their […]

02October2023

We’re Going on a Bug Hunt

This week in Skylark Class we have been learning about all things skeletons: vertebrates, invertebrates, exoskeletons and endoskeletons. The class gained an understanding of what each of these are and how they can be identified. We then went on to recognise the differences between insects, spiders and other creepy crawlies. During Forest School, we searched […]

21July2023

A Fantastic Finish

We’ve had a wonderful last week in Robin class; we painted our clay models, wrote a poem about a whale and looked at 2d and 3d shapes. To finish our week we had a class party; we played pass the parcel, had a dance competition and played musical statues. The year has gone so fast […]

21July2023

A Fantastic Final Week!

Skylark have finished on a high. Well done to Kenzie for receiving a Music Award, to Kayla for Best Effort and Joanne for Best Progress this year.Have a wonderful Summer Break, Mr Marland and Mrs Bailey

14July2023

Clay Creations

In Literacy, we looked at a new poem all about a sea lion, we also answered questions about whales. In Maths, we’ve been learning how to make 5 and 10 using two numbers. We’ve also been learning how to add two numbers using a number track to jump forward. The children enjoyed exploring the clay […]

30June2023

Crafts

In literacy we wrote our own goodbye cards to the storm whale. We also started to plan our own ‘friendship story’, we decided on a new character and ending. In maths we’ve been learning how to add and subtract numbers. We’ve been using a number track to jump forward or backwards. We’ve continued to learn […]

23June2023

Working hard

In literacy we answered questions about our story ‘The Storm Whale’. We made our own goodbye cards to send to the whale as he went back to the ocean. In maths we’ve been counting numbers and seeing how high we can get; we counted all the way to 100. We’ve continued to learn about the […]