English

In English, the children wrote a sequence of sentences about either a worry (like Ruby in Ruby’s Worry) or a roar (like Ravi in…

 Weekly News, Spring B, Week 3 

                         13th March 2026

Announcements: Well, what a lovely week we have had in Year 2! We are so proud of our children involved in the Rock Steady concert this week. It is not easy to stand up in front of a large audience to play and…

A busy week in Reception, we've been working really hard practicing our assembly, please support your child in practising their lines at home!

Phonics -

Grapheme recap - air, ow, ar, oo (moon), ear.

Tricky word recap - all tricky words.

Some words we have written - chair, cow,…

This week we shared the story Dave’s Cave. We talked about the differences between where we live now and where cave people lived. We then used the crates, wooden planks and pieces of fabric to make our own caves. 
 

In the garden we were very excited to use our new slack line. We used our core…

English

We had an absolutely amazing World Book Day yesterday! Thank you so much for all of your commitment and support in creating costumes and sending in beautiful books for our whole school book swap. The children completed fantastic pieces of writing based on the story The Black Book of…

 Weekly News, Spring B, Week 2 

6th March 2026

Announcements: Wow! What a wonderful week we have had celebrating World Book Day together. It was such a joy to see all of the children's fabulous costumes and PJs and to share our favourite books together. Well done, Year 2, you made us…

A sunny week in Reception, where our lovely garden is showing signs of Spring!

Phonics - we have looked at longer words this week with two syllables and introduced words that we can 'chunk' when reading. This means reading the first syllable of the word, then the next, then blending…

This week we have been learning about Dinosaurs. We share some dinosaur stories that we found in the library. We talked about the different dinosaurs and how some were carnivores and some herbivores. 

We used our fine motor skills to cut out triangles to stick on a stegosaurus' back. We made…

 Weekly News, Spring B, 27th Feb 2026 

Announcements: We are so excited to celebrate World Book Day with everyone next week! All children are invited to come to school dressed as their favourite book character or in PJs (with shoes and coats for outdoor play still, please). We cannot wait…

At Nursery this week, we started our new topic of What happened long, long ago? We started off by sharing the story of the great race. We learnt about how the animals all raced across the river and that is now the order of Chinese Zodiac was decided. We talked about Lunar new year celebrations. We…

Welcome back! We hope you all had a lovely half term. The children have settled beautifully back into school, showing us their super learning behaviours.

Phonics -

Graphemes - air, er, words with double digraphs dd, mm, tt, bb, rr, gg, pp, ff, tt.

Tricky words - are, sure,…

English

In English, we have been reading Ruby’s Worry, part of the Big Bright Feelings series by Tom Percival. Using this story, the…