Nursery

Nursery Pear Class have been busy developing their early counting skills this week through play. The children have been practising counting confidently from 1 to 10, using a range of maths resources such as counting bears. They explored different ways to count amounts, touching and moving objects, pointing carefully, and counting out loud. This will support the children to begin to build strong number sense and independence. 

It has been wonderful to see their focus, enthusiasm and growing confidence.

Reception - Not Now Bernard!

Reception have been reading the story Not Now Bernard in drawing club, ask them about the words: ignore, destroy, gobble and fierce some and their actions. The children drew some fantastic pictures of monsters and houses and came up with their own number and letter codes. 

Year 1 - Heads, shoulders, knees and toes!

Year 1 are exploring the human body and our senses in Science this half term. The children sang ‘heads, shoulders, knees and toes’ and then labelled any other main body parts they already knew. Thank you Dulcie for being our human stencil! 

Year 2

In science, Year 2 have been learning about minibeasts, and this week we looked at a range of habitats and micro habitats. We firstly learnt about many different habitats and sorted animals into where they lived and then we went outside to investigate two microhabitats within our school grounds. We observed the conditions and how many plants and animals we found in each.

Year 4

Year 4 had a fantastic trip to the Natural History Museum! The children loved exploring the animal displays and put their science knowledge to work, accurately classifying creatures into birds, mammals, and reptiles. The big debate of the day: which group do dinosaurs belong to? On the journey home, everyone was brilliant at playing the train conductor’s silent game. A huge thank you to our parent helpers—we couldn't have done it without you! 

Year 6 

Year 6 had a brilliant time visiting Chessington School for a hands-on electricity workshop. Putting their scientific minds to the test, the children predicted, problem-solved and debugged tricky circuits to light up bulbs and sound buzzers. The absolute highlight of the session was using switches to send secret messages in Morse code!

The secondary teachers were thoroughly impressed by Year 6’s depth of knowledge—especially when they confidently explained the difference between a cell and a battery. A huge well done to our future engineers and scientists for representing our school so fantastically!