Waingroves, Ripley, Derbyshire DE5 9TD

01773 744106

Waingroves Primary School

Think. Do. Achieve

Welcome to Mrs Reeves's and Mrs Baillie's Class page

Our teaching assistants are Mrs Butler and Mrs Coleman.

Have a look at all of the exciting things we will be learning about this half-term.

As part of our Personal Study this week we created artwork showing the animals we have been researching.  We wrote information texts about these animals, explaining their classifications and talking about what they eat.

We enjoyed lots of Halloween activities during our last Forest School session.  We made spooky witch wands and disgusting magic potions!

We visited Chapel on Monday to celebrate the Harvest Festival.  Back at school, we learnt all about how important the harvest is and made posters to show our thanks.

In Forest School this week we made popcorn over the fire.  It was delicious!  We also hunted for signs of autumn and made our own autumn crowns.

We had an incredibly wet Forest School session this week!  We made conker comets and had a go at some map reading too.

This week in Forest School we made apple bird feeders.  We also had a go at making shelters between two trees using tarpaulin, rope and tent pegs.

We had a fantastic first session in Forest School this week.  We did some forest bathing, pond dipping and even made our own ink out of blackberries!

We have been busy learning about different classifications of animal as part of our Marvellous Me topic work.  We learnt about their different features and created artwork to show this.  We also had a visit from Sue from the Zoo (who looks suspiciously like Mrs Reeves!)

The Oxford Owl website has lots of really useful videos to help you with Phonics at home.  Click the link below to have a look at a helpful video which shows you how to correctly pronounce all 44 sounds.

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/phonics-videos/