The Christmas Story

We are learning to: Retell the Christmas Story


In R.E. we are learning about the Christmas story. Today we listened to a story and discussed the key vocabulary and what tricky words meant. We then wrote the story from memory in our own words!

Here are some photos of Fenella, Jack and Olivia Riley's work.

They have written the story well using some of the key vocabulary and they have joined their writing beautifully!

Super Science Day!

Today has been absolutely brilliant! We dressed up as mad scientists and completed some crazy experiments!

First, we were mixing different coloured liquids to make potions. We mixed together some coloured water, oil and washing up liquid. We thought that it was going to all mix up together and make a funny colour but we were surprised when the colours didn't mix at all! The oil stayed at the top of the container and the washing up liquid sank to the bottom!

Then we had a visit from Mrs. Johnson from Sam's Simple Science. We did an experiment with milk where we dropped in some food colouring to make pretty patterns. Then we dropped in a tiny speck of washing up liquid and all of the food colouring moved around! This is because washing up liquid is made to get rid of fat from our plates, etc. and milk is full of fat. So the washing up liquid moved the food colouring and milk around the plate!

We also made some silly putty! This was made of PVA glue and water which we mixed up together. We then added in a very special ingredient that made it stretchy and bouncy! We got very messy but had fun bouncing our silly putty across the table!

After lunch we tested different objects to see if they would sink or float in water. A Jenga block surprised us! It's heavy, so we thought it would sink but it didn't. It floated on the water.


We then used tins and string to make telephones. We spent a long time investigating how we would hear our partner talking into one tin. We discovered that the string must be straight and taught in order to hear your partner!

We had a terrific day today, please look at our photos below.

Year 1 and 2

Today we went to Chiltern Open Air Museum to support our learning of the Victorians.

First the children attended a Victorian school. Penmanship, arithmetic and chanting the times tables were all practised IN SILENCE!

After that the children made and cooked drop scones over an open fire and finally the children learnt how to make a rag rug.

All in all an exhausting but very interesting day.

Today Year 2 took part in a sports festival with other local schools. They had the opportunity to try street dance, aerobics, tri-golf, speed stacking and ball games. All the children tried their best and had a great time.

Last week we went for a walk around our village. We found lots of features that we liked and also some that we didn't.
We found 57 pieces of rubbish! We need take more care of our village. I think we should have more rubbish bins in the village.

By Owen

What an amazing day!

Last week members of the school council were lucky enough to visit The Houses of Parliament. We learnt all about the history of our democracy and how government works today.

We also had a little detour to Buckingham Palace and Trafalgar Square!