In Reception this week, we have focussed on the traditional tale of Little Red Riding Hood. The children have thoroughly enjoyed discussing the various characters and their traits. Our favourite part of the week was designing our own baskets of treats to take to Grandma. This has promoted a love of reading within the classroom and the children independently taken books from the reading corner when they finished their learning and enjoyed sharing stories with their friends. 

We’ve been getting hands-on in maths using colourful hula hoops and counters to explore part-part-whole models! The children sorted red and yellow counters into separate hoops to represent the parts, before combining them into a final hoop to find the whole group. This visual approach has really helped build our understanding of how numbers fit together, giving everyone a solid foundation for writing full number sentences.

Year 2 have had a fantastic time learning to play the Djembe drums in their music lessons with Mrs Stead-Mills. They’ve been mastering different techniques- learning to make deep bass tones and sharp rim slaps while practicing steady beats and call-and-response rhythms together. We're so proud of their focus and enthusiasm- keep it up, Beijing Class! 

This week in RE, Year 3/4 have been learning about Hinduism and the birth and life of Krishna. We explored three famous adventures from Krishna’s childhood, including Makhan Chor, Krishna and Kaliya the Serpent and Krishna and Govardhan Hill. The children were fascinated to discover the exciting adventures Krishna experienced from a young age and enjoyed discussing what happened in each story. We looked beyond the adventures to explore the moral and important messages behind each story, thinking about qualities such as bravery, kindness, courage, protection and standing up for others. 

In English this week, the children wrapped up our suspense topic by editing, improving and beautifully publishing their independent writing. In Maths, we focused on addition and subtraction with numbers greater than 4 digits. Our Design and Technology lesson saw the children take their collaging topic to the next level by learning how to stitch and sew different materials together. The absolute highlight of our week was Thursday's hands-on Viking workshop, which truly brought our History topic to life! 

This week, Year 6 braved the rain showers to become plant detectives during their Science fieldwork at Cassiobury Park! Armed with their observation skills, the children carefully examined the key features of different plants and trees, using identification keys to identify a variety of species. They also collected samples to bring back to school, where they will put their scientific knowledge to the test by creating their own branching classification keys. A fantastic opportunity to bring our learning about living things and their habitats to life!