You’ve got a friend in Nursery A
It has been wonderful to watch friendships being created and developed in the first few weeks of nursery. We are learning to get along, help one another and develop our sharing skills. We are putting our faith into action, demonstrating how we love God and one another.
Year 6 Sketching Unit
This afternoon, the children started their first lesson in our new art unit. We will be looking at drawing self-portraits but today we focussed on during small details - using images of fruit.
Year 2 Art & Design
The children looked at the illustration ‘Waves’ by American artist Beth Krommes and listened to Fingal’s Cave by Mendelssohn. They then responded to these stimuli by choosing their own materials to make a range of marks to create their own version of…
Cooking in the Mud Kitchen
Today the children in Nursery B have been using their imaginations and working together to create delicious mud soup, pies, stew and ice-creams. They took turns, listened to one another and counted their ingredients to make the perfect recipes. They mixed, poured, stirred and cleaned up after…
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Web Quest
Today the children discovered how to quickly find relevant information on a specific topic using search engines.
Four-Digit Targets
Today the children used their understanding of place value in order to solve a range of problems.
The children used skills such as partioning, ordering and rounding numbers in order to find the correct solutions.
Jubilee Year of Hope, Exploring Unity in Nursery A
Throughout the Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year of Hope, we have been exploring different themes. Each school in our local cluster of Catholic schools has produced a ‘prayer focus box’ on a different theme. The boxes have been passed between the cluster schools throughout the Jubilee Year and to…
Throwing, Catching, Playing!
Nursery A children have been enjoying practising throwing, catching, balancing and ball hitting skills using playground equipment in the sunshine.
Why did the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?
Today we looked at the disaster of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.
We discussed the dangers of travelling on the Great Lakes and the factors that led to the ship sinking.
Isabella 5A, ‘I enjoyed having the opportunity to research in class.’
Autumn Treasures in Nursery B
The children have been looking for signs of autumn and have brought their ‘autumn treasures’ to show their friends. They have collected leaves, conkers, pine cones, berries, twigs and seeds. Once child brought in a pumpkin which she had grown in her allotment, This sparked conversations about…
Learning about the Bible in Nursery B
The children have been learning about the Bible. We looked inside our golden box and found our special book. The children all held the Bible and we talked how it has lots of wonderful stories about God and Jesus. We also talked about why we make the sign of the cross when we say our prayers. The…
Higher or Lower - Comparing Large Numbers
Today we looked at comparing large numbers whilst playing the game ‘Higher or Lower’. The children read different numbers before deciding if the next number would be higher or lower.