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Last week Willow Class went on a trip to Withy Grove Park to get some fresh air and exercise! Everyone took turns on the equipment so well and helped to push each other on the swings and roundabouts. Some children practiced their climbing skills on the climbing frame while others tried out the…

Happy Holi Day everybody.

Earlier this week 10R researched and celebrated Holi day.

First of all the class were emailed a task to find out just what Holi day is and why it is celebrated. They then had to decide on activities linked to the celebration before emailing Mr Buckley back with…

What a fantastic day!!!

If you have been following our blogs you will know 10R have been studying David Walliams in parts of their English sessions. We have read some of his stories, looked at David himself and even written to him. One of the stories we first read together as a class was…

Here we are again at the end of another week, this time week 9! It will soon be Summer term, how scary is that!

On Wednesday we kicked off Mrs Fisher's week with a My Thinking and Problem Solving lesson. We began the lesson with a quick brain break, a favourite of 8G, Body Bop. Lots of us love…

Today in our creativity lesson, Maple class formed their own band. Maple class listened to a song about being part of a band and we talked about the different instruments we could hear. We then took it in turns to play the different instruments and Mr Darbyshire taught us about staying in time to…

Willow class enjoyed a functional maths and food etc lesson, designing a smoothie recipe.

The children had to choose the ingredients they wanted, then use the price lists to work out what the quantity of each ingredient would cost.

Next children had to visit the banker to withdraw the money…

What a fantastic day we had celebrating World Book Day. We had a wonderful, busy, fun-filled day!

In Oak we had lots of wonderful characters walk through the door! We had a unicorn, sonic, dinosaurs, Mary Popins, a Cat, a Lion, a Princess, Shine, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Hulk and…

Today was the first "Just Dance" club for years 9-11 at lunchtime.  We warmed up to "Eye of the Tiger" and were very impressed with the pupils boxing moves!  We all had lots of fun dancing to a variety of songs and even found enough energy to sing along.  I think we were all ready for the 2 minute…

11R have been working hard today solving problems using division. 
 

We played games and divided our Holi rice we made from previous lessons into equal amounts. 
 

We discussed practical ways to overcome problems of sums we can’t do mentally or without counters and considered what we would…

9G have had a lovely time celebrating the Holi Festival. It runs from the 9th to the 10th of March. We chose to wear the colour green which is the colour for peace and nature. We had a busy day getting ready to learn using our colourful playdough gym and reading through the story of  Holika and…

This week Beech have been exploring Holi the festival of colour with lots of colourful and messy activities. 

Today, we recapped last term's learning about the importance of keeping our bodies clean. We took this opportunity to use Attention Autism and green paint, to show how germs can spread. We had fun passing the paint between each other to highlight how easily germs can spread and how it can spread…