Today, Year 4 have been learning all about the water cycle.  We made a mini water cycle in a jar to observe the processes of evaporation, condensation and precipitation. Children then worked in teams to build large-scale models of the water cycle using PE equipment and then presented their explanation of how the water cycle...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

Following reading our story ‘Lost and Found’ by Oliver Jeffers in class 1 on Monday, the children went on a muddy welly walk to find the lost pages of the book. They looked carefully at the illustration they found and talked with their friends about what was happening in that part of the story. They...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

Today on our welly walk the children were tasked with completing a block graph of how many polar bears and penguins were hidden around the school grounds. They chose 2 coloured pencils to represent the two polar animals and set out on their hunt. The children coloured in one box for each polar bear or...Read More

In class 1 we are learning about polar regions. On Monday we headed outside for a walk in our forest area when the children came across some polar bears and penguins. With great excitement they hunted out the polar bears and penguins which had numbers 0-30 on them. Following this the children split into two...Read More