5 x Readers In KS1!

14th May 2026Betty Ramsay

Here are our magazines all lined up ready to go for Friday’s assembly! If your child has read 5 times at home this week – and it is recorded in their reading record – they will get a raffle ticket for our VERY EXCITING raffle in Friday’s community meeting!

2 winners will be chosen each week at random and they will be invited to select a comic book from this gorgeous range!

This week there will be 4 winners due to last weeks assembly being cancelled.

We cannot wait to see who our first winners are!

You’ve got to be in it to win it: 5 reads, over 5 days, recorded in planners.

Work to be proud of✨

14th May 2026Josie Farrow

Dallas has been building up her resilience to work independently on the challenge table. She has been answering abstract questions independently in maths, with concrete support if needed. You are a superstar!! ✨

Maths

14th May 2026Josie Farrow

Crew Farrow have been using number lines to solve subtraction questions. Well done for recording your equations on the squared side of your whiteboards!

Phonics

14th May 2026Josie Farrow

Pink group have been working hard in phonics to get speedy with the story green words this week. Well done for helping your partners spot special friends and Fred talk the word if they have struggled.

🫀Investigating our heart rate🫀

13th May 2026Megan Gray

Crew Gray have been investigating to determine if exercise directly impacts our heart rate. We conducted a controlled experiment measuring our heart rate at resting, low intensity exercise and high intensity. We did this by recording our pulse before and after each activity, before recording our findings, which we are now going to use to write our investigation report.

Learning all about blood

13th May 2026Megan Gray

In Crew Gray, we have been discovering all about blood and what it is made of! During an exciting hands-on lesson, we explored the four main components of blood and uncovered the important job each one has to keep our bodies healthy.

We used water mixed with yellow food colouring to represent the plasma, which gave the liquid a realistic look. Marshmallows were used to show the white blood cells, which help the body fight infections. Cheerios represented the red blood cells, which carry oxygen throughout the body and give blood its red colour. Small pieces were also added to represent platelets, which help blood clot when we get a cut. As we carefully added each part to create our own “blood model”, we were amazed to see how these components work together to help our bodies function every day.

Finding Fractions!

12th May 2026Betty Ramsay

Crew Ramsay got stuck into some Concrete Maths to conceptually understand fractions of an amount. We divided an amount into 4 equal parts to ‘see’ the quarters. We then found 3/4 of the amount by adding 3 of the equal parts together. Here we are getting stuck into some part, part whole activities.