Blog Author: Bev Brown

Early reading and phonics has a high priority in APS and Miss Hill has kindly uploaded a helpful clip to our class Dojo page to offer some extra support with phonics at home, please visit our class Dojo page to have a look. If anyone would like any further support on how best to support at home…

We have been very busy preparing for Chinese New Year tomorrow

This term we are learning about real life superheroes. Today we found out about Florence Nightingale and the amazing work she did in hospitals and colleges over the years.

We know that she helped injured soldiers, cleaned up hospitals, trained new nurses, and dedicated her life to helping…

Middle Fell today had a day filled with poetry writing/editing in Literacy, exploring the UK in Geography and even participated in the BBC’s Live Winterwatch from the comfort of their own classroom!

They learned lots about how habitats, food chains and biomes all interact with one another as…

In Computing we have been learning about digital painting and have been learning to use a range of tools to help us to create self-portraits and artwork inspired by famous artists.

As Christmas is approaching and many of us have tablets on our Christmas lists we also took part in some…

Some excellent work in computing today using a painting package to create our own artwork in the style of Kandinsky. Great work everyone

Middle Fell have really enjoyed making their own instruments using what they have found out about pitch and volume.

We loved learning about seasonal changes and how to stay safe on those long Winter nights.

Wonderful learning about seasonal weather today, we have loved making our own windmills and identifying different kinds of weather.

In Art we have enjoyed learning a new skill- weaving. We firstly mastered the technique by using paper before moving on to using a loom and wool to create fire of London inspired weavings using hot colours to represent the fire. It was not an easy skill to master and we had to show perseverance…

We continue to be blown away by the quality of long term homework that is being produced, we are so grateful to everyone for their ongoing support from home- the partnership is so important to us and we are so grateful for all of your input from home.

Mrs Brown

Today Middle Fell have become Soil Detectives! Quite a messy affair, but everyone got stuck in!