Leaves leaves leaves
This afternoon we’ve been investigating leaves. We sorted them into groups, learnt about their function and used or observational skills to draw them. Great creativity Class 2!
We have been learning more about the cross and making our own crosses
In RE Reception have been learning more about Easter. We have been learning why the cross is special to Christian people. We create our own crosses. We took some over to church with us to show Reverend Anne!
Palm Sunday
Such a wonderful day today in Colton. A beautiful village. We loved our walk to church where we learned all about Palm Sunday.
We have been caring for our new friends!
We have enjoyed caring for our New Guinea pig friends! We have been feeding them, cleaning them out and giving them lots of love. We are responsible!
St Mary's own Psalm
Using our brilliant ideas Reverend Anne has written a Psalm for St Mary's. What do you think?
St Mary’s Psalm
You are lovely God, and you love us.
You have the whole world in your hands, and you have created us.
You look after your sheep, and you lead us in our…
Developing a love for reading at home!
We love to read at St Mary's!
We love prime time, phonics, story time, visiting the library bus, reading with Mrs Kimberley and learning around our stories!
We have also been enjoying shared reading with our friends across the school on a Thursday afternoon. During this time we get to read…
Greenpower racing update
We have had a great week in Class 4. We enjoyed our trip to Staffordshire Gatehouse where we sang with other schools to put on a musical recount of The Twits. We also really enjoyed our Greenpower work with Dr Allan. What do you thik to our body work for one of our cars?
Red nose day!!!!!
Today is Red Nose Day and we have dressed up in red clothing. We are busy practising our play in Class 3. We have done a maths test this week it was about length and perimeter. We have been writing a travel guide in English.
Plants investigations
Today we set up our own investigations about flowers. We all decided on a question that we wanted to answer and then thought about how we could set up an investigation to answer it.
Why do Christian people put a cross in an Easter garden!
Today we learnt more about Easter. We read the Easter story and talked about it together. We learnt more about why the cross is an important symbol to Christian people and then we build our own Easter gardens. Reuben built a bridge in his. “It joins God with the people again.” “The cross reminds…
Identifying common garden and wild plants
Today we identified common garDen and wild plants using a key to find them. We worked with class 1. Class 2 showed excellent leadership skills!
It’s science week! Can skittles make a rainbow?
We found out if you can make a rainbow with skittles! We observed closely to see what happened! We were amazed at what we saw. The colour washed away and we predicted that the sweets would turn white when all the colour washed off and we were right!