Easter fun

23rd March 2026Elizabeth Frost

Last week in nursery, the children enjoyed a creative and engaging Easter-themed activity that supported several areas of their development.

The children began by developing their fine motor skills as they carefully cut out their own Easter egg shapes. They loved learning all about the oval shape! Activities like cutting help to strengthen the small muscles in their hands, which are essential for writing and their physical development.

Once their eggs were cut out, the children showed wonderful independence and confidence by taking ownership of their work and writing their own names. Writing their names helps children to give meaning to marks they make, while also fostering a sense of pride in their achievements.

The learning didn’t stop there! Many of the children were so engaged that they chose to extend the activity further. Using cotton buds and a range of colours, they explored creating two-part repeating patterns on their eggs an important early maths skill to master!

Using cotton buds also provided another opportunity to refine fine motor control, as the children carefully dipped and dabbed to create their designs. At the same time, they explored colour, creativity, and self-expression, supporting their development within Expressive Arts and Design.

We loved seeing the children so motivated, independent, and proud of their creations. It was a wonderful example of how a simple activity can support multiple areas of learning while allowing children to follow their own interests and ideas.

Well done, Crew Frost!

Amazing Arithmetic Scores!

23rd March 2026Charlotte Newman

Miss Newman’s maths group have shown fantastic determination and resilience this half term, and it is truly paying off! They have been working incredibly hard on their arithmetic skills, practicing regularly and pushing themselves to improve. Many pupils have made significant progress since last half term. We are so proud of the progress they have made and look forward to seeing their confidence continue to grow as they build on this success. A special shoutout goes to these two children in particular who managed to double their scores! Well done everyone, keep up the amazing work.

Flat Stanley

22nd March 2026Sarah Mcglone

Crew McGlone have been enjoying the story ‘Flat Stanley’ in their writing lessons. We have enjoyed getting to know the story, whilst working on our oracy skills. We took key events from the story and created verbal sentences to describe what was happening in each image. We thought about our sentence, before then ‘nesting’ our idea. We then shared this with our talk partner before Miss McGlone chose children to share their sentences to the rest of the crew.

Writing

20th March 2026Tracy Haddock

This week in writing we have been looking at adding describing words to our sentences . We also did some sentence builders and the children noticed that Ms Haddock had missed a full stop at the end of the sentence so they had to add it on. Ralphie got the post card this week for working hard and getting smart. Well done!

Red Nose Day

20th March 2026Nicole Tymon

This week, we have been baking and decorating some cupcakes for Red Nose Day, and while doing this, we had discussions around fundraising and how baking and selling was one of the many ways we could raise money. We used visuals and videos to explain what Comic Relief is, and the children completed tasks based on money and feelings.

Mother’s Day

20th March 2026Nicole Tymon

Last week the children created beautiful Mother’s Day cards using their own handprints to form bright, blooming flowers, each one as unique as the child who made it. They also explored paint blowing, carefully guiding colours across the page to create some unique shapes. As they worked, we spoke about the special people in their lives—mums, grandmothers, and other loved ones. Showing off there progress with writing inside the cards themselves.

Boules

19th March 2026Tracy Haddock

Today in pe the children played a game of boules where first they rolled the white ball and then they had 3 coloured balls each . The person who rolled their ball closest to the white ball wins.

Dodgeball Tournament Success

16th March 2026Laura Godley

A huge well done to our Year 3 and 4 pupils from. who recently took part in an exciting dodgeball tournament against other local schools. The children showed fantastic crew work, determination, and sportsmanship throughout the event.

After a series of great matches, our team proudly finished 2nd place out of 10 schools! This is a brilliant achievement and everyone represented the school incredibly well. We are very proud of their effort, enthusiasm, and positive attitude during the tournament.

Learning from a Tudor Expert

12th March 2026Thomas White

Last week, our UKS2 Crews had a very special visit from an expert artist and Tudor enthusiast. She brought with her a remarkable portrait of King Henry VIII, which had been painted for her by her father. Seeing the portrait up close was a fantastic experience for the children, as it helped bring our Tudor learning to life.

During the session, she shared fascinating information about Hans Holbein the Younger, one of the most famous artists of the Tudor period. Holbein is well known for painting incredibly detailed and realistic portraits of important figures at the court of Henry VIII. His paintings were not just about showing what someone looked like — they were carefully designed to show power, wealth and status.

We looked closely at some of the features that made Holbein’s portraits so distinctive. The children noticed the rich fabrics, detailed jewellery and confident poses used to show the importance of the people being painted. We also discussed how artists used colour, position and symbolism to send a message about the subject.

Our visitor also gave the class some helpful critique and advice about their own Tudor portrait work. She encouraged the children to think carefully about proportion, detail and expression, just as artists like Holbein would have done hundreds of years ago.

The session was a brilliant opportunity to combine history and art, helping the children understand not only what Tudor portraits looked like, but also why they were created in that way. It was a memorable experience and gave everyone lots of inspiration as we continue developing our own Tudor-style portraits.

Air Resistance in Action

11th March 2026Laura Godley

Today, Crew Godley have been exploring air resistance in a hands-on way! We began by planning our investigation, thinking carefully about the controlled elements (things we kept the same) and the variable elements (things we changed) to make it a fair test. We started by dropping paperclips attached to parachutes to see how the parachute slows their fall. Once we understood the basics, we took on the challenge of protecting eggs from breaking! We discovered that parachutes with larger surface areas slowed the eggs’ descent more effectively, keeping them safe on impact.