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It’s the end of another week and somehow the end of September already!  We have been thinking about traditional tales in literacy and continued using base 10 materials to help show different number bonds. Some of our challenges looked like this:  The children are bringing their purple homework books home this weekend – as it’s […]

Over the past week we have been looking at the book ‘The Story Machine’ by Tom McLaughlin. We have really enjoyed exploring the book: If you would like to listen and share the story at home, you can listen to the author, Tom, read it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXVqCCeCPAU (adults, please check the video first as there […]

A warm welcome to Year 2! We hope you’ve had an enjoyable, restful and happy summer break. We’re very excited to be welcoming the children into their new Year 2 classes.  In our first week, we were thinking about bubbles! We described them, wrote poems about them and imagined we had a magic bubble that […]

Thank you all for your presents and cards. Mrs Beasley and I are very overwhelmed by your kindness and generosity. We have all had a great year teaching G1. We wish you a great Summer Break and look forward to seeing you all around Damers soon. Here we all our harvesting our potatoes we grew […]

Using the compasses has been our favoruite activity over the last 4 months. We have become really good at using circles to make pictures and patterns.

Please take part in the Big Butterfly Count. Count Butterflies you see for 15 minutes in your garden , park area, Maiden Castle, Borough Gardens, field or meadow and then record on the webiste or app by clicking this link. https://bigbutterflycount.butterfly-conservation.org/ You can print off a butterfly count chart if needed too.

The Big Plastic Count have released their results. Grayling 1 took part during May counting all the plasstic the class used from snack time to lunchtime. The Big Plastic Count was run across a week in May and its results show that the average participating household threw away 66 pieces of plastic in a week. Using those […]

We have had some amazing blackcurrent and redcurrent crumbles, smoothies and roasted rhurbarb made by the children using the produce they picked last week from the school garden.

We went to the garden to pick blackcurrents, redcurrents, strawberries, rhuburb, broadbeans and courgettes. We have been challneged to cook something with what we harvested at home. Mr Moore and Mrs Beasley are happy to be the taste testers!

We went to the garden and picked strawberries and rhubarb. Eliza took her rhubarb home and made ginger and rhubarb cakes. They were delicious! If your child brings anything home from the garden can you use it to cook with? We (Mr Moore and Mrs Beasley) would love to see or even taste your creations!