A group of seven KS2 children took part in a regional Boccia competition, competing against other junior and secondary schools. The children thoroughly enjoyed the day and received certificates .The children from Reid Street had never participated in this sport but played exceptionally well and learnt new skills.

​ Today, working in small groups, the pupils were set a challenge of deciding what instructions they needed to follow from their starting point to the treasure. They could only use the words forwards, backwards, left or right! The children then recorded their instructions and all together we checked if their instructions worked (one being the… Read more »

​The children had time in the computer suite to experiment with giving directions to each other. They helped Charlie Chimp deliver an invitation.  ​Next the children were introduced to a programmable toy. They were challenged to send it from one child to another. They found out that moving forward did not turn the toy and… Read more »

​Wow! We have been so busy in Year 1 today. We have read a new story called ‘We’re Going on a Lion Hunt.’  The story has so many new or different words in it so we have spent time investigating what different words are and what they might mean.  The children’s ideas were fabulous.The words… Read more »

​Year 1 have had great time learning the story ‘We’re going on a Lion Hunt’, which is linked to our Kenya topic. The story is very similar to ‘We’re going on a Bear Hunt’, with a fun repetitive pattern.Today, the children did a fabulous job of retelling the story through movement and actions! We all… Read more »

​Year 1 have had a lovely week focusing on the author Jill Murphy. Our final story of the week was ‘Whatever Next’. The children have been using a variation of skills to design and make their very own colourful rocket.  It has been lovely to observe the children, as they support and help each other… Read more »

​Today we watched an episode of Charlie and Lola, where Lola finds out that some of the things she has to do at school are quite tricky. She decides she doesn’t want to go back to school anymore.We used this story to have discussions about what it can feel like to think you can’t do… Read more »

 Today we talked about what rules are, why we have them and places that need to use rules.Together we agreed on a list of class promises. We have chosen to make promises that will make our classroom a happy and safe place to be.All of the children have made a handprint which we have used… Read more »

​Today in Year 1 we have been investigating leaves. Our challenge was to look at the leaves and sort them into matching piles. We looked carefully at the colours, shapes and patterns on the leaves to help us with this task. We also had to decide whether each group of leaves was from an evergreen… Read more »