Red Rose News
Come Read with Me
We were delighted to open our doors this week for 'Come Read With Me', welcoming parents and carers from Rainbow, Moonlight, and Starlight classes into school to celebrate the magic of books. We enjoyed sharing a range of texts, from the rhythm of poetry to the facts...
National Storytelling Week
This week we are celebrating National Storytelling week. We have had many different activities taking place including online workshops exploring the rhythm and sounds of telling stories; some Come Read with Me workshops and then pupils are travelling round classes to...
Outdoor Maths!
The KS1 outdoor area became a maths laboratory today! The children have been experimenting with ramps to test predictions about speed and distance. They adjusted the angles of the slopes to see if a steeper ramp made the cars go further, using measuring tapes and...
Crown inspired Crowns!
As an introduction to their new class book, year 3 and 4 have been making crowns this afternoon. The book they will be reading is The Crown by Emily Kapff. Speaking from the future, a girl wears a crown made from the rubbish passed down to her by previous generations....
Edward Lear inspired work
Year Two has been bustling with creativity throughout January! We have been working hard in our writing lessons, using Edward Lear’s classic poem, The Owl and the Pussycat, as our inspiration. The children have really impressed us with their developing literary...
After School Clubs
One of our Red Rose values is Opportunity. During each half term a range of after school clubs are offered and many pupils take up these opportunities. Here is a flavour of our after school clubs during this half term. There are a range of clubs including: puzzles,...
Year 5 & 6 Cultural Passport Sessions
Our year 5 and 6 pupils welcomed their adults in to work with them on their cultural passports. The cultural passport is our way of encouraging pupils to be involved in a range of cultural activities. The sessions today covered sewing and drawing a self portrait with...
Tudor Houses by Rainbow Class
Today, the children in Rainbow class brought their history learning to life during an exciting Forest School session! By safely observing their cardboard Tudor houses burn, the children were able to see first-hand just how easily the fire spread during the Great Fire...
The World of Materials
Our young scientists in KS1 have been continuing to explore the world of materials this week. Through fun hands-on activities, the children investigated why certain objects are made of specific materials! There was lots of great scientific vocabulary being used as...
Collages Key Stage 1 Style
This week, our Key Stage 1 artists started their creative journey into collage. The children have been busy exploring different textures and layering techniques, discovering how a variety of shapes and materials can come together to tell a story. It has been wonderful...
