Year One have enjoyed an exciting start to their thematic topic: Jurassic Hunter. We have been learning all about Mary Anning and how she found many dinosaur fossils and became the famous palaeontologist she is today. The children went on fossil hunts around school, learned a famous tongue twister about Mary Anning and listened to dinosaur stories. They spent their afternoon sketching fossils, freeing dinosaurs from ice, excavating bones from sand and stone and even made thei

Years 1 and 2 have begun their Wild Tribe learning journey! They enjoyed learning about their new outdoor learning space and carried on with their sessions despite the rain and winter weather! They have learnt how to stay safe and about the differents type of wood needed to build a fire. They successfully worked as a team to collect and sort their firewood into  small, dry pieces of wood and large logs and fuelwood. They learnt how to light a fire using a fire striker and the

Year One had a fantastic morning working with our ‘Little Makers’ visitors from the Black Country Living Museum. We thought about all of the structures and buildings we saw at the museum and then worked together to build our very own structures. We learned all about strong materials and how to make secure fixings. We used some bellows to test whether our houses were strong or not.