After a day off for the Queen’s funeral on Monday, the children showed an interest in the Queen and her family. We went outside to collect natural gems such as leaves and twigs to create nature crowns. The children looked like royalty…

In RE this week, we have discussed the importance of our names and have talked about what makes each of us unique to one another and special to God.

Reception class met their buddies this week. They loved getting to know them and showing them round our classroom. I think Year 6 had just as much fun playing as our Reception children did!

In Nursery this week, we have been looking at our names. The children have been recognising and building their names with magnetic letters and some children have even begun to practice writing their names! Very impressive Nursery class!

Have a lovely weekend everyone,

Miss Dawson, Miss Baum & Mrs Troy

Welcome to our final blog of the year!

Let’s begin by sharing some photographs of our trip to Druridge Bay last week. The children had a brilliant time and didn’t let the rain stop them from having fun!

This week the children have enjoyed their last few days in Reception class. They have also attended the leaver’s assembly and leaver’s Mass to celebrate their buddies’ final week at All Saints’. It has been emotional but everyone is ready for their next adventure after the summer break.

Finally we would just like to say a huge thank you to you all for the kind messages, cards and thoughtful gifts!

Reception class, we have loved being a part of the beginning of your school journey. You will be missed! We hope you all have a wonderful and safe summer – see you in Year 1!

Love Mrs Bryant, Miss Dawson & Mrs Morgan x

As we approach the end of another half term, we concluded our ‘Space’ topic with a final adventure to Mars using the Now Press Play headphones.

Enrichment activities

The children have loved trying new activities and taking part in a carousel of enriching sessions this week including dance, crafts, German lessons and Relax kids. The enthusiasm and behaviour of all the children in Reception, year 1 and year 2 was outstanding.

Jubilee

The children have gained an understanding of what a Jubilee is this week as they learned about the upcoming celebration and participated in a variety of jubilee crafts.

We had a picnic lunch. Then this afternoon enjoyed a special maypole dance performance from year 3 and 4. We have also enjoyed a delicious ice cream treat this afternoon! Yum.

Well done for your continuous hard work this half term Reception class. We hope the sun continues to shine over the break.

Mrs Bryant. Miss Dawson, Mrs Morgan & Miss Watson.

When Reception arrived at school on Monday, they discovered a section of our outdoor classroom had been cordoned off. On the other side of the tape they found scattered debris consisting of bolts, electrical equipment and, what appeared to be, an engine key. After some investigation, the children concluded a SPACESHIP had crashed in our yard!

After reading about Beegu’s spaceship crash last week, we predicted that the alien who had crashed in our yard was friendly and probably feeling sad and lonely. The children were inspired to create posters, inviting back the alien so they could help them fix their spaceship.

Iris created a missing poster with a picture of what she thought the alien might look like. She, alongside some other police officers, questioned the children in an attempt to find the lost alien.

Ben decided to build “an alien transporter” to help the alien get back home. He explained that this machine would transport the alien straight back to space. A great and thoughtful idea, Ben!

This week we have learned about a man who was transported to space by rocket! We learned that British astronaut, Tim Peake, travelled to space in just 9 minutes – that’s quicker than some of us can get to school! The children were then introduced to Google Earth where we observed the planet from space. We had fun zooming in to find our school and had fun exploring street mode where we were able to find some of our houses. We look forward to using Google Earth again to see if we can explore some more of our solar system.

The children have put their creativity towards creating their own rockets. Although they cannot transport us to space, they’re pretty out of this world, wouldn’t you agree? Isla even drew herself in her rocket.

In RE this week, we have continued our ‘Good News’ topic. We shared Luke’s story of Pentecost and discussed how Jesus’ friends felt when the Holy Spirit arrived. To help us understand the power of the Holy Spirit, we used representations of wind.

In our maths lessons, we are exploring the composition of a number sentence and understanding the maths behind it using ‘First, Then and Now’ stories. Here are the girls having a go independently!

It’s been a super busy week filled with fun and sun.

Well done Reception,

Mrs Bryant, Miss Dawson, Mrs Morgan & Miss Watson.

Reception have enjoyed lots of outdoor play in the sun this week. The boys have worked tremendously as a team to create another fabulous construction masterpiece that they were proud to show off! Here is their aeroplane with various levels and seats for the passengers. Fantastic!

The play dough area has also been a huge hit this week. The children have been inspired by the alien in this week’s story and have created some unusual aliens of their own; each as unique and as wonderful as the other.

The children have also enjoyed making kaleidoscopes.

It’s been a creative week!

Our literacy story this week is ‘Beegu’ by Alexis Deacon.

The children have really enjoyed this book. We talked about how Beegu may have felt throughout the story before discussing how she may communicate with her family back in space. The children decided she could write them a letter.

Look at these wonderful examples from Esther, Thomas and Iris.

We also looked at post cards as a way of communicating.

Could you imagine a spaceship crash landing on planet Earth…?