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Y6 were faced with a Design and Technology challenge: to design and make their very own playground!

They had to:

• Create five apparatus designs, applying the design criteria to their work.
• Make suitable changes to their work after peer evaluation.
• Make roughly three different…

Reception class have been reading Little Red Riding hood and wanted to help Little Red Riding hood get to Granny's house quicker that the Big Bad Wolf so they decided to make a plane for her. We investigated 2 different types of paper aeroplane, a thin one and a fat one and we predicted which…

Children in Year 4 have been learning how to follow a recipe.  They have learnt the skills of measuring, creaming and rubbing in.

This afternoon, we have been learning about the Earth's crust being made up of tectonic plates which fit together like a huge jigsaw puzzle. 

We have built our own tectonic plates using cream and biscuits.

Children in Year 4 have been using their map skills to locate the world's volcanoes.  

In year 1 we are beginning to compare the length and height of different objects. We brainstormed all the words we could use to compare lengths and heights. 

In EYFS we use the ShREC strategy to ensure high quality interactions with our younger children. It includes 4 stages to initially Share attention; Respond to the child; Expand into dialogue; working towards Conversation. This targeted approach is helping staff to gain understanding as to how to…