In Y2 we have been learning about the plague in London in 1665, and comparing it to Covid-19. Did you know that people with the plague also had to isolate? They would put a red cross on their door. The medicines used were very different, children can you remember some of the strange things people […]
This week the children met Mr Owl – a wise old thing who lives among the tress at Dore. He told them a story about his friends ‘the pebble people’. Challenged with a hunt to find them, the children explored the school grounds excitedly. Only, when they found them, they discovered that the pebble people […]
This week the children met Mr Owl, a wise old thing who flies among the trees at Dore Primary. He told us a story about his friends, ‘The Pebble People’. The children were challenged to go and find these friends, only when they found them, they had no faces. Luckily the children used their creative […]
To commemorate the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Year Four spent some time in Health and Wellbeing thinking about our feelings and emotions during the difficult and sad period of national mourning. We made links with our ‘Zones of Regulation’, which use colours to represent feelings. Then, in Art and Design, we used […]
As part of our Teaching Sequence for Writing, children take part in Immersion activities at the beginning of a unit of work to front-load their knowledge of context and text type. Year 6 have been acting out short pieces of drama where an Aztec is beseeching one of their gods for assistance. We focussed on […]
This year the children in Foundation Stage will be learning outdoors with Miss Bradley. Each week there will be a different focus/theme where children will develop their kindness, creativity, resilience and resourcefulness. We kicked off the first week with parachute games, getting to know one another and sharing stories in the sunshine.
Our first learning journey in Year 6 is ‘Los ConquistaDORES’ and as part of our immersion into the Aztec culture, the year 6 pupils practised their fire-lighting skills to grill a portion of delicious corn-on-the-cob (an essential food for people in Mexico for thousands of years). They persevered through wind and rain, and showed a […]
To start the year, Y4 spent one of our first Health and Wellbeing lessons thinking about friendship, and what makes a great friend. We then went outside and took photos of our friendships in action.
