In Jigsaw, we have been looking at the life cycles of animals and humans. We thought about how we have changed as we have grown, and what has stayed the same. We know that growing up means learning new things and becoming more independent.  We also learnt about how our bodie...

We introduced the concepts of animation in Year 1 today. We looked at using the program Scratch Jr. to make our sprite (character) move (animate). We learnt that we can create a sequence of instructions by linking our blocks together. We made our sprite move forwards, backwards, up, down and even sp...

We’ve had a busy week in our Reception classes. We’ve been looking at frogs and we had a real frog in our classes to study. After looking carefully at the frog we made clay models of frogs. We looked really carefully at the shape of the body and the legs. We used clay tools to make marks...

To finish our geography learning we explored the use of maps. By recapping the four main compass points, we were able to create our own routes to get from point a to point b. For example, 4 steps north and 3 steps east. The children worked in teams to find the easiest set of instructi...

This week, we enjoyed writing about the text 'Stuck'. It is about a boy called Floyd whose kite gets stuck in a tree. To try and get the kite down, Floyd throws a wild variety of items into the tree, including shoes, animals, a car, and a whole house! We started the week, thinking about what...