Our fantastic trip!

Yesterday we went on a fantastic trip to Buckinghamshire Railway Centre to support our learning on transport. Our guide, Peter, was brilliant. He not only kept us safe and entertained all day, but taught us a lot about trains. Even the adults learnt lots of things they hadn't known before!


We got to see a lot of trains and learnt how steam trains run. We rode on a full sized steam train and also had an exciting ride on a miniature train. We explored artefacts from the past including an old model train set and saw a post office train and learnt how the letters used to be sorted on the train.


Not only did we have a brilliant day, but the children's behaviour was excellent. They also asked very thoughtful questions and showed excellent recall of the information they had learnt. Holly and Dexter were also awarded special train driver hats for their super questioning and answering!

World Book Day!

Today we had lots of fun dressing up for World Book Day and sharing our love of reading. In our class we had Fantastic Mr Fox, an oompah-loompah and Jack with a beanstalk to name a few!

We enjoyed buddy reading, where an older child reads and shares books with a younger child. As always, the older children did a fantastic job with the younger ones showing not only great reading skills but a lot of understanding and patience.


This year was also our first 'book swap' - children were invited to bring in a book they no longer wanted or perhaps had a duplicate of and could swap it for a book someone else had brought in. Nursery and Reception joined Year 1 and 2 and everyone got to take home a new book to read.


Tomorrow we are going to be developing our writing as we talk more about the characters we came dressed as and think of some good words to describe them!