Music in sunflowers

Today we had music in sunflowers. The children chose different instruments to play and tried really hard to play in time with the music, we really enjoyed singing along too.

Love of Reading : Errol’s Garden (1)

The action words (verbs) that Sunflowers learnt in this Love of Reading Book were “grow“ , “water” and “dreamed”. The seeds then began to ‘grow’ and we imagined the different coloured flowers the seeds would grow into pink, yellow, red and purple. Errol “dreamed” of a garden. We pretended to ‘dream’ of a garden with […]

Newsletter: 8th May 2026

Happy Birthday! Thank you to everyone who supported our “Wear Green” day to mark Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday. Hopefully your child will have had a thoughtful day marking this remarkable milestone, and also learnt some interesting things about Sir David’s work in broadcasting and environmental causes. Residentials Three of our four residentials are now […]

Judo 🥋 festival

Today, we travelled to Kingsley school with some year 4 and 5 children from each school to experience a new sport – Judo. We joined children from other local schools to learn about Judo through a range of fun and exciting games. In addition, we learnt some Japanese words including how to count to five. […]

Story dough ~ The very hungry caterpillar

This week in story dough our story is the Very Hungry Caterpillar. We learned about life cycles. We made a tiny egg on a leaf, then a caterpillar, then a cocoon, then a beautiful butterfly.

Parliament and Horseguards

We hadn’t expected to be able to go into the chambers of the House of Commons or House of Lords because we thought both Houses would be sitting which would have meant viewing from the public galleries. However, Parliament was prorogued on the morning of our visit. This means it was the “end of term” […]

Story dough ~Fran’s Flower

Last week in story dough our story was Fran’s Flower. We learned to roll and shape petals and leaves, using our fine and gross motor skills. Some of us made plant pots with soil in, out of play dough. We also mixed colours, talking about what colours we could make out of play dough.

The London Eye

We split into two groups for the London Eye – here are some of the photos of the amazing views. We could see Wembley Stadium in the north of London and Alexandra Palace and Crystal Palace TV masts to the south.

Newsletter: 1st May 2026

Residential Success! A huge well done to all of our Year 5 children who took part in this year’s residential to London. It has been lovely to see them getting on so well with other children, and asking really insightful questions about the national capital, our system of government and famous landmarks in the city. […]

Welcome Summer Term

In continuous provision we have enjoyed playing to learn outside in the sunshine ☀️

Sunflowers at Rosemoor

Sunflowers had a lovely time exploring the gardens of Rosemoor and it was great fun using the play equipment :- In the afternoon Sunflowers took part in a workshop where we planted peas and learnt all about bees 🐝:-

Pizza Hut and Matilda

Pizza hut in Leicester Square this evening had a surprise bonus: the Odeon was staging the Premiere of Billie Eilish’s  movie so the crowds were huge and there was a real buzz of excitement. The event security also helped us in and out of Pizza Hut through the crowds, so we felt a bit like […]

Legoland

We had a brilliant time at Legoland today. Sadly the flume was closed but we went on lots of other rides: Ninjago, Sprinning Spiders, Jolly Rocket, The Dragon rollercoaster, Coastguard HQ, Deep Sea Adventure Submarines and  Minifigure Speedway rollercoaster.

Rosemoor trip – Cranford Class

Cranford and Sunflowers visited Rosemoor today. We learnt all about bumble bees. We looked around the beautiful gardens and had fun in the parks. We had a great day.

Viscosity in science

This term we are exploring solids, liquids and gases. We have looked at how particles are packed together in each state and how when you heat or freeze different objects they can change state. This week we investigated how the viscosity of vegetable oil changed depending on its temperature and found that the warmer it […]

London Walking Tour

It’s been a lovely evening in London. There aren’t too many people around so we were able to move around quite easily, from the Wellington Arch to Buckingham Palace, then to St James’ Park and Trafalgar Square. Finally on the way back we crossed Tower Bridge which was lit up beautifully, along with the Tower […]

London Residential Day 1

We’ve had a brilliant first day of our Y5 Residential. The journey up to London was really smooth and we arrived at the Youth Hostel in good time. As soon as we’d checked into the Youth Hostel, we were on the road again, heading for our evening meal at Hard Rock Cafe at Hyde Park […]

Newsletter: 24th April 2026

Summer Term! There are so many things to look forward to this term not least some sunny weather which we’ve enjoyed this week, albeit with a biting cold wind! We have the final two of our four KS2 Residentials, with Y5’s London visit taking place next week and Y6’s Adventure Bude week in early June. […]

Woolsery Schools Mini Marathon 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

This afternoon in the blustery, but sunny conditions the whole school turned out and took on the challenge of completing two miles. The week leading up to the London marathon each year, schools are given the opportunity to run a mini marathon at their schools. The children showed amazing resilience and determination and rose to […]

Parkham’s mini marathon

Parkham showed great resilience, determination and teamwork while completing the mini marathon today.

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