Year: 2020
Nursery
This week in Acorns and Pippins class we have been busy making our classroom all wintry! We made some shape snowflakes and some lovely snowmen … all we need now is some real snow! We have been counting up and down from 5 and started to recognise some numerals too.The children in Oaks have been…
New Clubs 2020
We had a successful launch of our new STEM club last week! The club enjoyed building, testing and modifying structures built of spaghetti and marshmallows. We can all imagine the bonus at the end of the activity! The first two weeks in ‘Lego tech’ have been very exciting. We have learnt to use our special…
Reception
In Art we used our wellington boots to make prints in paint and glitter. Can you spot the path we took in our corridor? In Maths, we started to learn about one more and one less. We were lucky to use Fruit Frenzy on our interactive white boards and it was very noisy fun! In…
Year 1
We have continued with our topic theme of houses and homes this week. We have looked at Mr Jones’ house from the outside and tried to sketch the windows, door, garage, roof and chimney. We have been listening to all the variations of the three little pigs story and tried very hard to re write…
Year 2
Ernest Shackleton sent us an advert that he published in the newspaper, asking for volunteers to travel aboard the ‘Endurance’ ship to Antarctica. Most of us were eager despite finding out about the gruelling conditions and low wages. After chiselling away at the advert frozen in a lump of ice, we wrote letters to Ernest…
Boarding fun!
Our four new gap students have settled into Copthorne and had some bonding time with the boarders last weekend at the Crawley Hollywood Bowl. They also celebrated Harry’s birthday with cake and other treats!
Year 2
Year 2 The children were intrigued when they returned to school and their classrooms looked like they had been frozen with icicles and even some snow flakes. A lost, lonely penguin was found by each class so we wrote a ‘Found’ poster describing where we thought the penguin lived. They have been captivated by our…
Year 1
The children have returned to school very happy and they were very pleased to see their friends. We have been talking about our New Year’s resolutions, many of which have included helping around the house, recycling more, tidying up and helping with the washing up. We look forward to hearing if the children have kept…
Reception
Welcome back to all Reception children. There has been a constant chorus of chatter filled with excitement since we came back. The children have shared fantastic stories about their wonderful Christmas holiday and Santa seems to have spoiled everyone thoroughly this year! We have written our first holiday news this week and we all tried…