Baking bread like the Little Red Hen!

By Leonnie Carrick9th June 2026

Can you guess what story we have been reading this week from the clues below?

The Little Red Hen!

We have loved reading this story together in class this week and have had lots of lengthy discussions about sharing and helping each other! We have chatted about animals you might see on a farm and the different jobs that might happen there.

The story led us to lots of discussions and talk about bread...if we like it, what we like on it and where it comes from!

We realised that it doesn’t start in the local shops but that it is made and comes from a crop called wheat…which is farmed!!!

We had lots of fun watching the process of harvesting and collecting wheat and how this is ground to make flour in a mill.

We then had a go at using flour to make our very own bread, which was lots of fun, and messy too! We stirred, poured and kneaded to make the perfect dough ready for cooking in the oven and eating with some home-made butter! The children enjoyed this part!

Butterfly paintings

By Mrs C SILVERWOOD7th May 2026

We have loved reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar and have been mesmerised by our caterpillars in the classroom and have really enjoyed watching them grow and change.

It seemed only right to create our very own beautiful butterflies.

Click on the link below to see how we made them…

Butterfly painting

F2 Farm Day!!

By Leonnie Carrick5th May 2026

To introduce our new story ‘The Enormous Turnip’ we immersed our classroom and turned it in to our very own farm! The children had a fabulous day, click the link to see more…

Farm Day

Caterpillars in F1

By Mrs C SILVERWOOD15th April 2026

Our new story is The Very Hungry Caterpillar.  To help us learn all about caterpillars and how then transform into butterflies we have got some REAL baby caterpillars so that we can watch them grow and change.

The children have been intrigued by them already!

Jax said, “They’re crawling, they can actually crawl on their own, that one just crawled up!”

Blake said, “I can see that one climbing.”  Nevaeh added, “It’s on the wall.”

Finnley said, “They’re eating, eating the food.”  He was right.

Freddie told us, “They’re ‘gonna’ get big!”

We can’t wait to watch them grow and change.

library

By Mrs K SMITH28th March 2026

Mrs Smith’s class were very excited to visit the library this week.

We love to look at the books and share stories with each other. It is always calm and relaxing when we visit the library. It helps us to clear our minds and get lost in a magical world far away when we read some of the amazing fiction books we have.

We can’t wait until our next visit when get to read more books.

Y6 English

By Mr J SUTTON24th March 2026

In year 6, we have been looking at writing formal letters of complaint. The children have been complaining (like normal but more formally) about missing parcels, dodgy cinema experiences and even finding a cricket in their McDonalds meal! working together they have really worked hard on improving their peer editing skills.

Tad!

By Leonnie Carrick20th March 2026

F2 have loved reading the story ‘Tad’ by Benji Davies!!!

This story has inspired us to explore the lifecycle of a Frog, discussing how Tad starts his journey and where he ends up!

We have learnt lots of new key vocabulary, such as ‘frog spawn’ ‘tadpole’ ‘froglet’ and ‘frog’… and discussed how the life cycle continues and goes round and round.

Mrs Wilkinson brought in some pretend frog spawn- chia seeds- we added water and mixed the gloopy mixture together to resemble real life frog spawn!

The children had a great time feeling and describing the spawn- describing it as “gooey’ “wet” “thick” and “gloopy”!

We had a great time mark making and drawing our own life cycles and could confidently talk about the process and change from frog spawn to frog!

  

How to be a good friend – Year 5 explanation text.

By Etienne Hull13th March 2026

This week in Year 5, we have been exploring explanation texts. We wrote a guide on how to be a good friend, focusing closely on the importance of being kind, listening and offering support, as well as being honest and trustworthy. This work has linked closely with Wonder, the book we are currently reading, as we have been discussing the importance of kindness, empathy and treating others with respect.

 

   

 

We’ve had a swirling, whirling snowstorm!

By Mrs C SILVERWOOD12th March 2026

Whilst we have been reading We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, we have explored all of the environments that the family discover on their walk.  We thought mud was brilliant but not half as exciting as creating our very own swirling, whirling snowstorm!

To start with, we watched how snow calmly and gently falls from the sky.  Then we watched a storm and talked about why the snow was moving around in different directions.  Jacob was able to tell us that it was because the wind was blowing it.

Yesterday the children had practised their cutting skills and snipped up lots of tiny pieces of white paper.  Blake gave it a blow but it just wasn’t enough.  What could we do?

We needed something that we could ‘waft’ to create lots of ‘wind’ so we decided to use our clipboards.  The results were amazing!

Watch the videos below to see how we retold some of the story, with some of us trying hard to use British Sign Language at the same time, and then creating our amazing swirling, whirling snowstorm.

A great day in F1!