A roarsome visit to the Big Cat Sanctuary
This week Year 2 visited The Big Cat Sanctuary to learn about the habitats of the cats and how the sanctuary care for them. The children enjoyed an interactive workshop where they learnt how cats camouflage themselves, the difference in paw prints and why some cats have long tails and others have short tails. The children had the opportunity to look and feel the claw and teeth punctures on the big cats’ toy balls.
Read MoreSwimming Gala makes a splash!
On Tuesday 14th, Year 3 and Year 4 water babies dived in to the Castle Swimming Gala, battling it out to see Rochester take first place with 90 points, Hever come in second with a score of 76, Bodiam place third at 69 points, and Leeds bring in 45 points.
Read MoreHead’s Lines – 17.03.23
As I type this on Friday morning, I am still beaming with pride at what our children and staff accomplished last night in the Spring Concert. We all know all too well how precious community events like this are after the last few years when gatherings became illegal. The creativity, joy and excellence on show last night, interspersed with glimpses of other learning powers such as bravery, originality and collaboration, made for a wonderful celebration and I am grateful for all who participated or assisted, including especially to Mrs Lordon.
Read MorePrefect’s Piece: Recipes
Hello, my name is Holly and one of my favourite hobbies, besides art and horse riding, is cooking. I love to watch cookery programmes and every weekend I make pancakes and we experiment with different flavours and even make art pancakes, using lots of different colour batters and make funny pictures and then eat them all up.
Read MoreLoving Lowry
Pupils in Year 4 have been introduced to L.S Lowry. They have been creating sketchbook pages that reflect the much-admired artist, applying their fact-finding and Observation Learning Power to capture the heart of his art.
Read MoreMusical marvels
Have you ever wondered how sound is made? How fast and how far sound can travel? Or why certain animals can hear certain sounds and we cannot? Pupils in Year 4 explored these questions, and many more in their Science lessons. They completed a sound survey of the Prep building.
Read MoreYear One round-up
Children in Year One have had a busy week, including learning about odd and even numbers, understanding the rules which apply to groups of numbers and spotting patterns on a hundred square. In English lessons, the children have enjoyed learning about the Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt. They have played Top Trumps to compare the attributes of each and then had lots of fun designing their own.
Read MoreReception round-up
Next week, children in Reception are going to be working on the sounds ‘ir, ou’ and ‘oy’ as well as continuing with sentence writing. During mathematics, the children are going to be revisiting o’clock times, and continuing with one more and less as mental mathematics and recording sums. They will still be working with subtraction and using number lines to solve problems.
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