A fabulous first day back!

By Mrs C SILVERWOOD6th January 2026

The children have all loved being back at school today.  We’ve started reading a new book, One Snowy Night, which is all about Percy the Park Keeper.  He looks after all the woodland animals in the park and helps to keep them warm in his hut.

We also talked about Winter and how most of the trees have absolutely no leaves on at all any more.  Some of the children drew some great winter trees.

And of course, we explored the ice in our outdoor area.  It was so cold!  Freddie said it was heavy.  And Roo said it was slippery too!

F1’s homemade ‘clay’

By Mrs C SILVERWOOD4th December 2025

This week our afternoon children have had fun measuring out different ingredients to make our own air-drying ‘clay’.  We used 2 cups of bicarbonate of soda, 1 cup of cornflower and 1.5 cups of water.

When we had mixed it up together, Mrs Silverwood heated it up on the hob.  She had to keep stirring it all the time until it turned into a ball of thick paste.

You will have to wait to see our fantastic decorations though, as it is a surprise for Christmas!  However, they are looking very pretty!

Investigating Friction – Year 5

By Sophie Porteous1st December 2025

In Year 5 this week, we investigated friction and learned about how it can slow object down and also create heat.

We planned and carried out and investigation to find out which material would make the best zip wire for Mrs Porteous’ children’s toy elephant. We investigated ribbon, string and utility cord and timed how long it took the soft toy to travel down the zip wire.

We wanted a zip wire where the toy didn’t get stuck or take too long, but also one where there was some friction created so there was some resistance and the toy didn’t whiz down it too quickly!

Our results prompted questions about rough and smooth surfaces but also surface area contact and how this may have affected our results.

Forces

By Mrs K SMITH27th November 2025

Year 3 have started our new science unit on forces by experimenting and investigating which forces are need to play with toys.

We have discovered forces such as push and pull are needed for some toys to work. We had to pull the figure to make it stretch, we had to push the ball to make it roll and we had to push the spinning top to make it spin around.

We also looked at a magnetic fishing game and how these forces are different to the toys we had to make work. We can’t wait to start finding out more about magnets during this topic.

F2 SNOW DAY!

By Leonnie Carrick20th November 2025

As soon as the children arrived at school today their faces lit up and everyone was buzzing with joy at the sight of the playground covered in white fluffy snow!!

We wrapped up warm and headed outside as quickly as we could. The children had the best time building snowmen, making snow angels, and enjoying friendly snowball fun with their friends. We talked about how the snow felt crunchy under our boots and how cold it was when we held it in our hands. We also noticed all of the autumn leaves slowly falling off the trees leaving bare branches!

After all that chilly play, we headed back inside to cosy up and warm ourselves with a lovely hot chocolate.

Owl nest crispy buns in F1

By Mrs C SILVERWOOD20th November 2025

When we first looked at the different objects in Mrs Silverwood’s bag, we thought we were going to eat some breakfast because we knew that it was a box of cereal.  However, Cally said we needed a bowl and some milk but they weren’t in the bag!

When we found a bar of chocolate, Jacob told us that we couldn’t be having breakfast, “because chocolate is for pudding”.  He was right!

The children decided we needed to mix the chocolate into the cereal but the hard chunks just went round and round in the bowl.  Nothing happened.  That was when we realised we needed to melt the chocolate to get it to stick to the cornflakes, so we could make crispy buns, and to melt it we needed to make it warm.

We took turns to make the mixture and spoon it into our cupcake cases.  It was all quite tricky to do and we had to concentrate.  We decorated our crispy buns with chocolate ‘sticks’, which Brody thought looked, “very yummy”, to turn them into nests.  Finally they needed an owl to fly down and sit in them.  Just perfect.

The only thing we needed to do was to let the chocolate cool so that it went hard again, then to take them home and eat them!  Mmm, delicious!

It’s snowing!

By Mrs C SILVERWOOD20th November 2025

F1 loved experiencing the snow this morning.  For some it was the first time they had EVER seen any snow!  It was so exciting!

We had a good chat before we went outside about the clothes that we were wearing.  Blake knew that his mummy had put his scarf on today because it was cold.  Jacob told us that our hats would keep our heads warm.  We definitely wouldn’t be wearing shorts and t-shirts today, like we did in the Summer!

The water in our tray had frozen solid!  Musa shouted, “ice!”

Everyone’s hands got so cold from touching the ice and snow.  It was great fun but we all needed warming up!  There was only one thing for it…

HOT CHOCOLATE!

 

Year 5 – An introduction to gravity

18th November 2025Sophie Porteous

This afternoon we learned that a force is a push or a pull.

We did a range of experiments and practical activities to show that unsupported objects fall downwards due to gravity.​ We looked at our hair when we do a handstand, watched paint run down a sheet of paper and threw objects in the air to watch them fall. We realised that Gravity is an invisible force that makes unsupported objects fall towards Earth. Throughout history, people have tried to explain this force. Galileo realised that gravity causes objects of the same shape, but different mass to fall at the same speed.​ Although some of us predicted that heavier objects would fall faster, we proved Galileo right by dropping 2 identical water bottles – one full and one half full – at the same time. They both hit the ground at the same time. We also learned about Isaac Newton who realised that Earth must have a force towards its centre that pulls things straight down. He is the person that named it “Gravity”.

Year 6 Science

By Mr J SUTTON21st October 2025

In science we have been looking at the question: Which exercise will increase our heart rates the most. The children were able to choose three different exercises to compare. To keep it a fair test they decided that they should do each activity for 2 minutes before finding and recording their heat beat. In between each activity they let their heart beat get back to a resting beat before starting the next exercise to ensure fairness. We will be comparing our data next lesson and drawing a graph to show and evaluate our results.

Kites in F1

By Mrs C SILVERWOOD17th October 2025

In our current story ‘Titch’ the big brother and sister both have a kite.

We thought we’d have a go at making our own kites.  The children had to decorate their cut out shape, then cut a piece of ribbon for the tail, stick it in the right place then add a string to hold on to too.

Then they were ready to go!

Roo told me that we needed to wind to make our kites fly!  Well done Roo!

Then later on, instead of doing our Write Dance exercises, we changed it to Kite Dance!  Who would have thought that flying kites could help us develop our handwriting in the future!