Year 1

Harry Potter, Katie Morag, Hairy Maclary, White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, Gangsta Granny and Mr Twit were just a few of the fantastic book day costumes.  Every class had a fun day reading Oliver Jeffer’s books and responding through drama, writing opportunities, Art work and music. My favourite Oliver Jeffer’s book is Lost and […]

Miss Cook took the children to St Mary’s Church to take part in a baptism. Reverend Snow dresses Ben in his robes and helped to welcome a new baby into the church.

We harnessed the power of the wind to make our kites fly. We used plastic bags and string to make a very simple kite. We got very muddy going on the field where the wind was wilder. The wind was so strong that some kites flew away. We could even tell the direction of the […]

We have been telling fairy stories in class. The children have been acting the stories and making up the words. We really enjoyed the Enormous Turnip, especially when we finally pulled up the turnip and we landed in a heap.

WOW – we have held another arts club – the children have been learning to draw cartoon pigs today!  Thank you to everyone running the club, students from QES, we really appreciate your time and energy.  

Our children in Year 3 and 4 have been taking part in their first team building challenge. Their task was to create the tallest tower for a toy soldier. This challenge was designed to not only explore their engineering skills but to see how well they worked and communicated in their group.  We may have eaten […]

We have worked hard to fill our display with paintings of favourite fairy tale characters; we have made clay models of the Big Bad Wolf; we have explored adjectives to describeLittle Red Riding Hood; we have looked for characters who are bad and those that are good; we have designed Cinderella’s dress for the ball […]

This is a photo of an empty display! Our topic this term is ‘Once upon a time…’ We will be reading a variety of traditional stories and filling this display with paintings, writing, photos and books. We have built a fairy tale castle in our role play area and a puppet theatre, so we can […]

Thank you to everyone who took part in our Carol Service on Tuesday night.  We sang together and each class performed wonderful songs or carols in the beautifully lit, St Mary’s Church.  The service was interspersed with readings, read by Year 6 pupils.  It was a lovely evening together with school community.   Thank you […]

Thank you to everyone who has produced some wonderful home projects.  We have been very impressed with the range of projects including some rather tasty cakes and biscuits!  As you can see we have also shared some excellent models of Father Christmas!