Blog Author: Lyndsey Faulkner

Thanks to all the great research the children have carried out on British birds our flock of artroc birds are now complete! Look out for the starling, robin and blackbird in a garden near you. 

A big thank you to everyone who has been researching British garden birds.

Fractions are taking over Year One's lives. During snack time we realised that we can quarter our snack and show it as a fraction!

Today we used multilink and pegboards to show fractions. Many of us can show half of an amount in lots of different ways. Some of us can even show quarters. Well done Year One for making Mrs Faulkner feel so proud!

Well done Ruby on being Miss Clegg's very first handwriting blogstar!

We used artroc, small drink bottles and lots of research to create the basic structure of our British birds.

We are carrying out lots of research into minibeasts in our locality so we can make factfiles.

We had been set the challenge of making a profit for school fund. We democratically chose the name and used different peoples strengths to help develop our product. Some children worked in the artistic department, others in filtration or assembly and some in advertising. We created a jingle and…

A visit to the local shop to source our equipment for our mini enterprise challenge.