Key Stage 1

Year 1 and Reception took part in a fascinating, fun and interactive Primary School Planetarium Show which took them on a journey through space, earlier this week.

They learnt amazing facts about our solar system and beyond, including taking a flying visit to and learning information about our incredible neighbouring planets. Is it possible to live on them? And what makes Planet Earth so special that life thrives here?

An absolutely fantastic experience for all!

Wow what a half term it has been for Year One!

In English, we read about all the amazing buildings that Iggy Peck built which led nicely into looking at famous London Landmarks. At the end of the topic, the children deigned and wrote their own leaflets giving lots of interesting information about them.

To complete our Science topic of materials. We went on a material hunt around the school, identifying what materials different objects are made of and why.

Year 1 have really enjoyed learning about past and present transport. As part of enriching our learning, we even went on a bus and underground trip. We loved looking at the tracks and all the different underground lines.

In Design Technology (DT), we have been looking at the design of playground equipment and have even made models of slides.

Last week, we were very excited to invite parents into school to share a book with us. We were very excited to see so many grown ups and loved showing them our classrooms and of course reading a book!

Year 2 have been studying The Great Fire of London in English and History. To end this fantastic unit, every child participated in a workshop where they travelled back in time to 1666 and explored the events surrounding the Great Fire of London. The children discovered what caused the fire, why it spread so quickly and how it impacted Londoners’ lives before reimagining the construction of a new, safer London.

Year one were very excited to travel on a bus and a tube, enriching their current History topic of transport. They loved looking at the underground map and finding all the London landmarks that they have learnt about in English; it was great fun!

On Friday 10^th February, the year 2 children ended their half term with an exciting trip to RHS Wisley Gardens.  This trip has been organised to develop our knowledge linked to our science topic on 'Plants'.  When we arrived at the gardens we were escorted by the Learning Team at Wisley to the education centre.  After a brief introduction, we started our workshop titled 'How do plants grow?'  First, we were shown a variety of seeds and plants from across the globe.  Some of the seed pods were enormous and had come all the way from both Africa and South America.  We were then taken to explore parts of the gardens, where our guide explained to us about some of the tallest trees that grow at Wisley and how large their trunks will be when fully grown.  It was fasinating, and we were even able to apply some of our maths knowledge, thinking about if we were to measure the trees length would we do this in meters or centimeters. 

After a good explore around the stunning gardens we went back to the education center and planted some seeds that we were able to take home with us.  By that point we were all ravenous, so we had a break for lunch before a fun packed afternoon exploring the famous glass house which homes exotic plants that you'd usually only see in deserts or rainforests.  At this point, we channeled our inner 'Henri Rousseau' the artist we have been learning about and sketched some plants like he used to in the Botanical Gardens in Paris.  To end the day, we spent a little bit of time in the natural play area.  Finally, after a long and exhausting day we were returned to school full of beans about what we had seen.  Miss Kitchener told us that we had all walked around 18,000 steps!  The children were incredibly well behaved and a credit to our fantastic school!