Dear Parents As we come to the end of what I understand has been Teacher Appreciation Week, I wanted to share with you some of my thoughts. When I entered the teaching profession 33 years ago, the focus was on how to teach, classroom management, subject knowledge, use of resources, and so on. However, today’s…
We have been very curious about the weather this term in Year 1. We have kept our own weather diaries and been reflecting on rainy day pictures. This week we have been experimenting with paint to create raindrops scattered amongst our beautifully bright umbrellas.
Pre-Reception have had lots of fun this week going for an explore in the Spinney where were used the binoculars to look for birds and the magnifying glasses to look for insects. When we were there we even saw Andrew on the tractor!
Pre-Prep Golden Awards Reception Proud Clouds Celia M Year 1 Golden Awards George S and William H Year 2 Golden Awards Darcy T and Isabella C Year 3 Golden Awards Lucia C and Eva H 5Rs Awards Resilient Rhino Charlotte T, Rhaman S, Theseas T and Troye P Resourceful Raccoon Joseph R and Freya S Responsible…
We entered two teams into the Science Quiz Club this week, one from Year 5 and one from Year 6. Both teams did fantastically well and showed some great team work . Excitingly, the Year 5 team of Benedict C, Elise C, Charlie P and Jesse O achieved the second highest score (1800 points) across all…
We have loved seeing all the entries that have come in for Holmwood Flowerpot Festival. If you would like to enter you still have time, please bring your wonderful flowerpot creations into school by Monday. Tables will be left at the various drop off points and your creations should be left there, clearly labelled, ready to go on display…
Babies Babies have loved exploring how to make their own bugs using Playdough and lolly sticks. We investigated shadows and our new babies have been settling in really well. Bluebells The Bluebells have enjoyed lots of activities with shapes this week including looking at them on the iPad. We have enjoyed puzzles and looking where…
What will happen to our shadows? Year 3 have been investigating light, shadows and transparency this term and have been using their reasoning skills to predict what will happen to their shadows!
Really sparking curiosity with electrical circuits this week, Year 4 were creating their own circuits and using them to test for conductors.
Curious to find out how they could make their Lego speak, Year 5 set about using their reasoning skills. They looked at some algorithms and computational thinking and here is the result…
