This week Year 2 have been looking at different ways of joining materials during Design Technology. We tried joining materials with glue, staples, pinning and sewing. Then we discussed which way would be the most suitable for making our teddy bears. During PE we have been...
In Art this week, Year 1 have been experimenting with paint. We learnt that red, yellow and blue are primary colours which means we can make all other colours by mixing just these three. It was very exciting to see the new colour appear! In Maths,...
We have had a busy week in Year 1 this week! In Science we looked at a range of scientific equipment and talked about what it could be used for. In we worked on finding one more and one less than a number and then in Art...
Year 2 really enjoyed meeting our new PE coach, Miss King, this week! Our first unit this term is football and we have already learnt lots of new skills. [gallery ess_grid_gal="homepage" ids="16559,16560,16561,16562,16563,16564,16565,16566,16567"]...
Our topic this half term in Oak Class is Marvellous Me. This week we have enjoyed singing action songs such as Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes. All the children have joined in. We have drawn around the children on large pieces of paper and labelled different body...
On Wednesday 17th July, we had our end of year attendance party. This party was to celebrate all the children that had achieved the school target of 96% for this academic year and we had 100 children join us! It was a lovely afternoon with the children...
What an amazing day we have all had celebrating the 90th Anniversary of Dorothy Barley Infant School. The children (and staff) looked amazing in their outfits, the effort everyone made today was just wonderful. Thank you to all the parents and carers that came along to our...
This week Year Two visited Mayesbrook Park to complete some fieldwork as part of our geography curriculum. We will be drawing a map of the route we took to the park. We looked at and took photographs of the human and physical features that we might...
This week in Maths, Year 2 have been using both balance scales and circular scales to weigh every day objects. They then recorded the mass of each object in grams and kilograms. [gallery ess_grid_gal="homepage" ids="16293,16294,16295,16296,16297,16298,16299,16300,16301,16302,16303,16304,16305,16306,16307,16308,16309,16310,16311,16312,16313,16314"]...
This week in Year 1 we have been reading The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson. We wrote our own journey stories and now we are going to find out about real snails and whales. We looked at snails using magnifying glasses to discover how they...