Foundation Two Italian Day
While the rest of the year group enjoyed their visit to Pizza Express, the other half of the year group had an Italian Day. They collaged an Italian flag, created their own shape pizza’s and building, learnt the language and tested their own leaning towers of Pisa’s. They had a brilliant time!
Year 4 Magnus STEM Day
Here are some pictures and a description from yesterday’s visit to The Magnus Academy. The STEM day had a Charlie and the chocolate factory theme. The children rotated around a carousel of Maths, Science, Technology and Engineering activities culminating in producing a chocolate coin to take home. In the maths lesson they entered Wonka’s packaging […]
The Forge Trust Choir
On Thursday 9th March the 70 pupils who make up The Forge Trust Academy Choir, met for the first time at Parkgate Academy to practise their entry for the Worksop Music Festival. 29 pupils travelled from Sir Donald Bailey to meet up with the choirs from Parkgate and Forest View. Each school have been rehearsing […]
World Book Day
Yesterday we celebrated World Book Day. Take a look at some pictures of our staff and children dressed up as their favourite book characters. Everyone looked fantastic!
Foundation Two Pizza Express Visit
The first half of F2 went on their trip to Pizza Express yesterday. We walked down to Pizza Express and learnt about food hygiene and the different ingredients we can use on our pizzas. We kneaded the dough, added the margarita ingredients and popped them in the oven. After this, we then walked across to […]
Foundation Stage Drumming Workshop
Our Foundation Stage children had a great time when ‘Beatfeet’ visited, they played the goat skin djembe drums to create the music and sounds of West Africa. They even had cuddly animals to bring their music to life! Take a look at them in action.
The Great Fire of London
Last week, Year 2 used roleplay to talk about the events of the Great Fire of London. Children got into character and were interviewed by ‘detectives’ about what they saw, heard and did during the events.
Making clocks in Maths
This week, Miss Porter’s Maths group have been making clocks for their topic on time. We named the parts of the clock including the face, minute hand, hour hand and numbers. We then discussed why it was useful to split our clock into quarter hours, and how two quarters shows us half. We also began to […]