Blog Author: Mrs Gurney

After such a busy half-term, we are very ready for a break! We have not slowed the pace of learning in this short term, so hopefully, we'll come back fully recharged and ready to continue our learning journey. 

On Monday, we visited Eden Camp as part of our learning for our World War 2 topic.…

We have been problem-solving in maths and learning about equal fractions. We understand what a numerator and a denominator are and how to simplify a fraction.

In computing, we are learning about spreadsheets. We can now create a basic calculation formula and this week we learned about the SUM…

Half of Elm class have been out with Mr Bates this week trying out our new emergency shelter and the other half will go out next week. We had a great time with our Great Forest Bake-off, even if we did get a little muddy!

In maths, we have been continuing our learning in statistics by…

What an interesting week we have had!

As part of our World War Two topic, this week, we have been doing some internet research on evacuees and watching videos of their stories. Some of us have great-grandparents who were in the war, and while it's a fascinating topic for us, it's hard for us to…

This week we have been talking about rain.  The children have learnt the story about Noah's Ark, and what happens when there is too much rain!

We have learnt a rap with actions to help us remember the story - why not ask your child to perform it for you!  We have also been learning to count…

Elm class have got off to a flying start this year! We have come back well rested, free of all the winter coughs, colds and viruses and are raring to go!

This week, we have introduced our World War 2 topic. We looked at the timeline between the start and the end of the war, how it started and…

Happy New Year everyone! We hope that you all had a lovely Christmas holiday and are feeling refreshed ready for the term ahead.  

This half term we looking at different types of weather and this week we have talked about 'wind'.  We have read "Mrs Mopples washing line" and "The wind blew." If…

As our first term in Elm class draws to a close, we would all like to wish you a very merry Christmas and a happy, healthy New Year! 

We have been busy this week with our Christmas service in St. Hilda's Chuch, having our Christmas party, going to the cinema, and making cards and calendars for…

We had a wonderful Christmas party this week. The children came to school looking gorgeous in their party clothes and brough biscuits, sweets, cakes and crisps to share with their friends...how kind!

In the school hall we played musical bumps, musical statues, Christmas stations and pass the…

Last week we all wrote a letter to Father Christmas. We practised writing our names and our ages and some of us wrote sentences while others had a go at cutting out pictures of the toys we would love to get for Christmas. 

On Friday we went to the post box to post our letters. Lots of Mummies,…

Elm class are looking forward to next week! We have the cinema trip on Monday, our Christmas celebration in St. Hilda's church on Tuesday, Christmas dinner and our party all going on. Fun times ahead!

This week, we have spent a long time lovingly creating our calendar in class and Christmas…

We really enjoyed performing our Christmas play this week. It was called 'Santa needs help' and it helped us to understand all of our previous learning this term to do with people who help us. Santa has a very accident prone Christmas Eve and needs help from lots of different people. We dressed up…