Y1 English
Year 1 have been learning about the Tiger who came to tea! They even had their own tea party.
FS2 Summer Nature Scavenger Hunt
This week we welcomed the children back into Summer 2 with a scavenger hunt. Firstly we shared the poem ‘June’ by John Updike. We talked about long, warm summer days and adventures that we like to go on, games we like to play outside and being out and about in nature. We went outside to […]
Pre-School Summer 2 Week 1
This week we’ve been talking about the seasons and what signs to look out for for Summer. In the hall, we had a go at different balances.
Y2 Old Hay Brook
In our outdoor learning, the children used junior-hacksaws and square lashing knots to create rafts. We then used our science learning of floating and sinking to test if they would float on the brook. The children all had a wonderful time (although some rafts were damaged in the process!). Thanks to the parents who were […]
Y4 English – Writing Immersion
To support our writing sequence where children wrote a story about the Iceni tribe burning down London, Y4 enhanced their writing by generating vocabulary for their senses whilst experiencing a real open fire. Back in the classroom a carousel of learning and facts allowed children to collect information and generate ideas for what sort of […]
Summer 1 week 6
This week we have been enjoying the warm weather . We have been learning about the different types of bees and went out on a trail to find pictures of different bees and also found parts to make our own picture of a bee ! Plus we had our own fun on Sports day ! […]
Sheffield Schools’ Swimming Gala
On the same evening as our Sports Day, our team of 14 swimmers and our amazing team manager (in the black and white shirt), managed to summon up enough energy to put in some fantastic performances at the annual (returning this year after a covid enforced absence) Sheffield Schools’ Swimming Gala. All events were relay […]
‘Allsorts of Sports Day’ 2023
Sports Day 2023 followed a very loose theme of ‘Allsorts of Sports’. We had every child, from Reception up to Y6 participating all day across seven zones. We had cricket (R66T Academy from Abbeydale Sports Ground), football (Chesterfield Academy young coaches), dance (Gemini), along with an obstacle course, relay race zone with traditional sports day […]
Poem fit for a king – Town Hall Celebration
Dore Primary entered poems into the Schools Libray Service’s Poem fit for a king competition. And, thanks to the brilliant work of Iris and Hattie, we won! To celebrate, Iris and Hattie chose friends to accompany them on a a trip to Sheffield town hall for a writing and illustrating workshop with author of the […]
Y5 Cricket Festival
Y5 enjoyed a day of cricket last week at Abbeydale Sports Club. All of Y5 got a chance to practise using the site’s top-flight training areas and compete against other local schools in individual games. This allowed the children to apply their PE learning from the past half-term and to build on the skills that […]