Blog Author: Mrs Fallows

Class 2 have begun their first English unit studying traditional tales. To start with they passed clues around the circle making predictions about which story it could be and explaining their reasons. After working out that it was Little Red Riding Hood, the children have read the story and…

After a wonderful summer it was back to business for class 4 as they started a number of new topics this week.  

English - suspense stories

Maths - place value

Science - materials and their properties

Geography - populations

PE - Handball

ICT - internet safety

We have been…

Today we have been hot seating. We put ourselves in the position of Rhodopis, the character from our class text and answers questions as her. We thought about how she may be feeling and the different things she has been experiencing. 

What a wonderful first week together we have had! The children spent time getting to know each other, building fabulous new friendships and finding out about each other. They then had fun imagining what they didn’t do on holiday- nobody swam with sharks or flew a rocket to space. To finish we…

Year 1 have had lots of fun working practically in maths. Their knowledge of place value within 100 is coming on wonderfully! 
 

Year 3 had a wonderful afternoon at Spital tennis club. They learnt many skills and had lots of fun. As always, they were wonderful representatives of The Howard. 
 

Wow! What a fabulous morning we have had! Our Rocksteady bands have shown great commitment over the past term perfecting their musical skills. Today they showcased bravery and courage performing to parents and then their peers. We are incredibly proud of you all. Rock on legends!

This week we have held our transition day. We were sad to loose our wonderful year 2 children but we were very excited to meet our new friends who will be joining us in class 2 in September. To get ready for our first topic, traditional tales, the children began by guessing what our topic would be…

Class 2 are reaching the end of their coding unit of work and their skills are impressive! Using scratch jr they can make images come to life with wonderful animations. They have learnt how to changed backgrounds, sprites (the characters), code individual sprites and add it altogether to create…

We are absolutely thrilled to share some incredible news from the recent MAT Spelling Bee Final held at Richard Crosse! 

The Howard was brilliantly represented by a formidable team of word wizards: four talented pupils from Key Stage 1 and eight superb spellers from Key Stage 2. Competing…

Our key stage two athletics team competed in the Tamworth small schools athletics competition. They showed excellent determination and sportsmanship with both their team and other schools. We are incredibly proud of them all. Out of 8 schools, we came 2nd! Amazing! Well done to everyone who took…

What a brilliant day we have had at the zoo! The children took part in a workshop called ‘Grubs up’ which complimented our school learning perfectly! The children enjoyed visiting all of the animals in the zoo and the sun shone for us all day! Well done to all of class 2 for being such wonderful…