Y1 & Y6 Discuss Geography
Year 6 and Year 1 met last week to talk about their geography learning. Whilst sharing their knowledge, they noticed that they had both been using maps to identify capital cities. (Y1 of the UK and Y6 of Europe). They enjoyed looking in each other’s geography books and making links within their learning. “I enjoy sharing my […]
Super Science – Digestive System
Year 4 have been super scientists looking at the digestive system. We created the four processes of ingestion, digestion, absorption and egestion. We looked at what body parts were used in each process and the role they played in this human system. It was messy but we had great fun carrying it out.
BBC 500 words writing competition
Children from across school met with Mrs Smith to begin the BBC 500 words writing competition. This is a competition which inspires children to write their own stories that are no longer than 500 words. They’ve got to think about the audience and purpose and the style in which they write. The group have come up with […]
Year 3 Class Text
Our class text is called My name is not Refugee by Kate Milner. I recommend it to others because the message tells people to treat everyone equally – Alex It is a good because it tells you about others who move to different countries. It helped me to understand more about refugees – Olli-Scott Other people should read […]
National Smile Day with FS2
Last Friday was national smile day and FS2 started the day by performing the song ‘I’m a Little Hedgehog.’ We then sent the performance to all our grown ups on dojo to make them smile. In the afternoon Year 6 joined us and we all smiled lots sharing our favourite songs.
Appreciation at Ashwood
This week in assembly our theme was “Appreciation”. We listened to A wonderful world by Louis Armstrong and thought about the meaning to the lyrics. I see trees of green, red roses tooI see them bloom for me and youAnd I think to myself what a wonderful world I see skies of blue and clouds […]
FS2 Stay & Play
This term we enjoyed a fun filled stay and play. Our grown ups stayed with us to read stories and play. It was such a wonderful opportunity for our children to show their special adults what they like to do in school. Just look at all the happy faces!A big thank you to all our grown […]
Smile Day at Ashwood
Today, as part of our continued work on mental health and wellbeing we celebrated smile day with wearing something that makes us smile. Children also brought in a medal or trophy to celebrate something they were proud of. This week in celebration assembly we celebrated this amazing bunch of children who are always learning, being independent […]
School Games Ten pin bowling competition
Children took part in the School sports games Ten pin bowling competition. The children worked so hard showing great team work skills. We are proud to announce that Ashwood came joint first place with Listerdale out of the 12 schools in the competition. We are so proud of you all! #wearepreparedtomakemistakes #wedreambig
Bug Club Phonics!
In Year 2 we do daily phonics sessions, we start the session by recapping all previously taught phonemes using flashcards. We then introduce our phoneme of the day, we say this to the ceiling, the carpet and whisper it in our partner’s ear. Then we play ‘Fastest Finger First’ using our phoneme mats – the children […]
