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Can you guess what we are making yet?

Look what we have made...a great big mess!  We don't think Mr. Williams will be too happy!

Next we need to add the balloons!

We are very intrigued as to what it's going to turn in to! 

On Monday we found out that skeletons play an important part during the Day of the Dead (Día de Muertos) celebrations in Mexico so we decided to spend this afternoon learning about skeletons. We talked about why we have a skeleton and discovered the names of some of the bones.  We each made a…

As part of our Mexico topic  we have been learning about the Day of the Dead (Día de Muertos) this week.  Imagine our delight when three of our children brought in some things that they have been working on at home. A huge thank-you to Holly S and Leah for making  the decorated skulls from air…

What better way to end a busy Wednesday at school than by knitting and nattering? (Although there doesn't seem to be much nattering going on in the picture - too busy concentrating - or posing!) Knit and Natter  is just one of the many after school clubs on offer at St Stephen's. A big THANK YOU…

A super effort this week from Ella and Isabelle. Let's see if we can do this fab handwriting in all our work!

We followed instructions of how to make an origami boat. We are going to use the boats to help solve the classic river crossing challenge revamped to include a troll, a goat, some corn and of course the landowner who is attempting to get all the characters across the river after the troll…

Today we have been following instructions to make our very own Viking bread. We are looking forward to cooking them tomorrow and tasting them. 

To help us with our work on recognising numbers we have been playing Bingo! We all had to listen carefully and concentrate to make sure we didn't miss any of our numbers.  It was lots of fun!

We have been busy planting some sunflowers and watering them.  How tall do you think they will grow?

Today we explored different brick laying techniques and replicated it in Lego and collage. The stretcher bond technique proved to be quite pesky! We found it made a much stronger wall than just layering it up, brick on brick.