Blog Author: Ms Carter

Remembrance Day . 8A will never forget

This Thursday the class watched a very short film that showed a silent cartoon that represented how poppies appeared after the battle was over in France and Belgium in World War One. It was very moving and the learners understood what they had watched…

8A Me and My Body. 

As we start to look at “Me and My Body”, 8A learnt about different body parts. 

The learners had to do good listening and listen out for a body part. When staff called out a body part, 8A had to point to that body part on themselves. 

We had the easy body parts,…

8As Afternoon at the Park.

On Monday afternoon, we made the most of the dry weather and the class walked to the near by Devonshire Rec Park. 

Whilst walking to the park, the learners were reminded on keeping themselves safe when crossing the road. 

When at the park, the learners…

8As day out to Rascals and McDonalds 

The learners were very excited this morning coming into school. 

They still had to do their reading and writing and had their morning snacks before we all set off to Rascals. 

Mrs Cheetham was our driver for the day and chauffeured the class…

Rocket making in 8A.

As our topic is “Space”, 8A was given a sheet to jot down ideas to design their very our Rocket.

The learners were given ideas on different materials they could use when they started to make their Rocket.

The learners then drew their design out on paper,…

8A on how to make the world in 7 days.

This term 8A will be learning all about beginnings and endings. Today, 8A looked how our world was created. We did explain at the start of this topic that different religions believe in different scenarios as to how the world was created, and the…

This Friday, the school celebrated Jeans for Genes Day. It’s so nice seeing the pupils coming in with their own clothes on in support of the charity. The staff had their jeans on today too. 

The learners looked at the PowerPoint explaining about why we have Jeans for Genes day. The…

Just wanted to show you the great baking 8A has been this week in our Food Technology lesson. Ethan’s mum donated three Solar System cake mixes, (Thank you again).

The class mixed up the cake mix and made some amazing cakes. We made sure to measure the milk, eggs and butter accurately…

This week 8A was introduced to our new topic, “To Infinity and Beyond”.

We have looked very closely at the moon, and the learners used describing words to write a small poem about how the moon looks. There was some brilliant words used by the learners and some good sentence…

This week, 8A has been looking at “Vision Boards”. 

The class firstly spoke about what they want to achieve this school year, either at school or at home. 

The class then looked at different areas of vision. We looked at what the learners are grateful for, self-care ideas, a phrase or…

Welcome back to the new 8A 2023/24. I hope you are all looking forward to a new school year. It was lovely seeing all the children returning with smiles on their faces. 

Our first week has been a nice chilled one, easing the learners (and staff) gently back into a school routine. 

On…

So this Tuesday was our first time in making Muffins

Over the next 7 weeks, we will make different types of fillings for our muffins. We have chosen to used White Chocolate Chip, Milk Chocolate Chip, Cheese ( as a savoury option), raspberries and blueberries. 

This week we did Milk…