Day two of Fantastic Futures week, has been all about transport. We started with a visit from Mr Smith the Bus Driver. We were so inspired with our visit, that we built our own bus in the garden. The children also used mark making to make their own bus signs and tickets. We ended […]
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We started Fantastic Futures week with a fizz and a pop! Leanne Maidement came to talk to the children at nursery about being a scientist. We then took part in an experiment, predicting, observing and recording what we noticed. Thanks so much to Leanne we had a great time. We also had a visit from […]
Dragonfly Class – Day 1 of Fantastic Futures Week This morning, our week began by watching an assembly about indoor fireworks. Matthew Tosh is a Scientist and Radio Presenter who travels the world creating lots of exciting firework displays. In the assembly, he called Miss Offer to the front and she had to hold an […]
Fantastic Futures 2019 has started with a bang- quite literally! We had a fantastic firework display in the hall from pyrotechnician Matthew Tosh. He dazzled us with some of his tricks and spoke a little bit about the science involved. Miss Offer helped out with the display, complete with safety gear, by holding an indoor […]
Term 5 in Nursery We started Term 5 by learning the story of the Three Little Pigs. We were impressed by how many of the children could retell the story, recalling the repeating phrases and the order. “Once upon a time there was three little pigs and they were too big and they had to […]
At Nursery, term 4 has been all about eggs and chicks. We started by learning the story Chicken Licken, which led the children to ask Niki to bring her chicks and hens to visit us at nursery. The children were so calm, careful and gentle with our visitors that we decided to incubate some eggs […]
In Term 3, the children have been finding out all about Winter. We enjoyed making patterns in the frost and using ice and snow in the mud kitchen. We helped our Duplo figures escape from the ice and made ice suncatchers. We also took part in the RSPB’s ‘Big Bird Watch’ and have been looking […]
On Monday 14th January Year 2 took a trip to The Haynes International Motor Museum. After being warmly welcomed, we learnt about production lines, teaming up to make cars and discovering that organising the parts and giving each person one job to do meant that we could produce cars more quickly. The children were rewarded […]
In Term 2, the children have been exploring light and dark. We started the term by linking it to day and night. These ideas inspired the children to find out about nocturnal animals and to share some of the special things we do at night time. Some children were curious about fireworks and explored how […]
Year 4 ended their Wild, Wild West topic in style yesterday by visiting the beautiful American Museum in Claverton, Bath- https://americanmuseum.org/ As part of the visit, the children had the opportunity to handle real Native American artifacts and also had a tour around the Native American exhibits in the museum. After lunch, we had an amble […]