The children in class 1 have been having fun in their phonics lesson. They have been racing to collect pancakes and reading real and made up words. Super blending and sorting and great team spirit.Read More

Year 2 have had wonderful time learning about 2D and 3D shapes over the past couple of weeks. To test their 3D shape knowledge, Miss Hodkin challenged year 2 to create 3D shapes that had the correct number of edges and vertices but they were only allowed to use straws and blue tack! All the...Read More

Year 2 and 3 have been learning all about the types of rocks and grouping them in different ways. This week we have been sorting rocks into man-made and natural and looking at their uses in the wider world. To help us do this, we went on a rock hunt around the school and the...Read More

Year 2 and 3 have really enjoyed learning all about Barbara Hepworth and looking at photos of all her sculptures in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. We decided to create our own “Sutton Sculpture Park”, unfortunately the weather was against us, however we had a great time arranging our sculptures indoors! We used a composition viewfinder to...Read More

Year 2/3 have been excellent geologists in the past two weeks and have learnt all about the three different types of rocks and how they are formed. As we couldn’t wait millions of years to watch rocks form, we decided to use a slightly different material to create the rock cycle – chocolate! The children...Read More

Year 3 have been getting really stuck into our geometry maths topic in the past week, working brilliantly to learn all about the properties of 2D and 3D shapes. We decided to explore how to create our own 3D shapes by learning about nets and how these could be constructed to create different shapes. It...Read More

Class 1 have been having fun playing parachute games in the sunshine this afternoon. Super listening and team work.Read More

Continuing our work with sculpture, year 2/3 have spent the last two weeks studying the work of Barbara Hepworth. We have enjoyed looking at all the different abstract sculptures she makes out of bronze, wood and stone. We worked in groups to make our own versions of Hepworth’s sculptures out of play dough, focusing on...Read More

Year 2 and 3 have really enjoyed reading our new class book “How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth” by Michelle Robinson. We were inspired by the instructions in the story to have a go at writing some of our own, to help us wash our own woolly mammoths! The children each had a “mammoth” or...Read More

Year 2 and 3 have been working really hard in maths lessons learning all about using the inverse, solving missing number problems and doing some excellent independent problem solving with addition and subtraction. To make use of all our problem solving skills, we had a sporty problem solving morning! All the children worked in groups...Read More