Blog by Mrs Potter

The children chose their own class reading book, as a Christmas gift. This is the book they chose, a tale of a refugee who joins a class. The children in Willow are loving this tale, it is funny and sad at times too. We really value our time to read together and this story, set in London gives us…

As part of our launch for our ‘The Iron Man’ topic, we investigated whether or not we could extract the iron from breakfast cereal. We began by crushing cornflakes into a powder, and the dissolving in warm water. We then used magnets to try and draw out the iron. We discovered that this was…

We used mud from the hill to create our own paintings inspired by cave paintings. Each child studied cave paintings and sketched their own picture, they then took turns to recreate these on a huge sheet. The sheet is now the back drop for our class History display, feel free to pop in and have a…

As part of our 'Passport to Europe' topic, we are studying different countries in Europe. We created our own passports and have set off on our travels!

Last week was German week (blog coming very soon!), and this week is French week!

So, 'Bonjour!' 

Here are some examples of our work…

Today we had a very special visitor, Mrs Potter's dog, Spud!

The children took photographs and investigated the food he ate, as well as his chew for cleaning his teeth! Some of his teeth were the same shape as our own canine teeth, but MUCH bigger!