A Dark Dark Tale in Cherry Class
A Dark Dark Tale in Cherry Class Cherry class have started their new Talk4Writing topic called ‘A Dark Dark Tale’. The children listened to the story and explored what was inside their own dark dark box – just look at their faces of intrigue and delight!As they explored the text even more, they began to […]
Remembrance
Remembrance Yesterday, at 11am, the community of Pencombe came together to commemorate Remembrance Day led by Reverend Sidwell.Willow class recited the poem The Serving Soldier, Oak class narrated the poem Heroes, and Cherry class offered some prayers. The children laid crosses for the four local soldiers who fought in war.We shared a two minute silence […]
Maths Padlocks and Money
Maths Padlocks and Money In Cherry class this week, the children continue to develop their maths skills.In Year 1, number padlocks were used for a maths starter where the children needed to read the number as a word to match it to its number key and then it would open! In Year 2, the children […]
Making Bread in Cherry Class
Making Bread in Cherry Class What a lovely week Cherry class have had!They began to make our bread rolls in DT using different techniques such as mixing, kneading, proving and baking. The children used the weighing scales to correctly measure out each ingredient. Thank you to those who helped. It’s lovely having parents involved in […]
Practical Maths
Practical Maths To fully understand mathematical concepts, it’s very important that children have opportunities to extend their learning outside and by doing practical activities. This week, Year 1 were using hoops and beanbags to make part whole models. They then were able to begin to write addition number sentences on the playground using chalk. Year 2 were […]
Harvest Festival
Harvest Festival The whole school celebrated Harvest this week in church with family and friends. Harvest is particularly important here at Pencombe because we say thank you to our farmers who are an integral part of our community.The theme was this year was “Harvest Around the World”.Pippin class acted out the Chinese story of Stone […]
Walk Up Durstone Hill
Walk Up Durstone Hill All of the children in Cherry and Pippin class had a lovely afternoon this week, walking up Durstone Hill under a beautiful Pencombe blue sky.It was lovely to see the children in Cherry take some responsibility (our school value of the month) looking after Pippin class….what a team!
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Talk4Writing in Cherry Class – “Toby’s Diary”
Talk4Writing in Cherry Class – “Toby’s Diary” To support children’s writing skills and raise progress at Pencombe CofE Primary, we use Talk4Writing. This is an engaging teaching framework that It enables children to imitate the language they need for a particular topic orally, before reading and analysing it, and then writing their own version.Here are […]
Year 2 – Phonics
Year 2 – Phonics In phonics, Year 2 were looking at the alternatives sound to “ai”. They talked about how to say each sound and how many different words they could sort into the correct sound.Great work Cherry Class!
