Amazing Aerial Photography

20th April 2022Nicola Robson

Yesterday we were very lucky to be visited by Geoff and his drone. He talked to the children about aerial photography and different ways we can take photos. We then went outside and watched Geoff fly his drone 120 meters up in the air! He took some amazing photos of school and the surrounding areas.

Please keep this date in your diary…

1st April 2022Laura Parsons

Thursday 21st April (Year 2 -9.00-9.30) 

Friday 22nd April (Year 1 – 9.00 – 9.30) 

In our next expedition we are looking in detail at Norton and our local area, including the history of our school and community. We would like to invite family members to an informal coffee morning where you can have a drink and a bun while sharing your experiences of how Norton and our school  have  changed over the years. If you have experience of living in a contrasting area too then it would be great for the children to be able to compare. Even better, if you have old photographs to share then we would love to see them.

Thank you

Key stage 1 team x

Getting ready for our learning with the daily mile

24th March 2022Claire Goodyer

It was so lovely to complete our daily mile in the sunshine today. It woke us up after lunch and helped us to feel alert and ready for maths.

We used a variety of equipment to represent numbers to 50 by making tens in maths today. The children were great collaborators and were able to demonstrate their explanation and reasoning skills whilst supporting each other in their learning.

We are geographers in Class 3

10th February 2022Claire Goodyer

This week we have been considering the question ‘What is geography?’ We took part in a scavenger hunt around school to photograph clues that helped us to answer the question. We studied a variety of maps identifying their features and finally located the 7 continents and 5 oceans of the world.

  • Scavenger hunt
  • Exploring maps
  • Identifying continents and oceans of the world.

Exploring habitats in Class 3

3rd February 2022Claire Goodyer

This week Class 3 have been exploring habitats and the animals that live there. We’ve researched with our partners using books and the internet and have enjoyed watching lots of interesting videos that have helped us to learn more about habitats around the world. We are looking forward to completing our presentations and sharing them in crew.

Fact finding

20th January 2022Claire Goodyer

This week in Class 3 we have been exploring features of non-chronological reports in our shared reading lessons. We have also demonstrated great decoding skills and found out so many interesting facts about polar bears.

Collaboration in Class 3

25th November 2021Claire Goodyer

In reading crew we have been supporting our friends by praising what they do really well and helping them to develop strategies that will enable them to get even better.

In maths we collaborated to solve problems involving addition and subtraction. We used practical equipment and developed our reasoning and explanation skills with our partners.
This afternoon we had our introduction to our brand new iPads. Our expert visitor taught us how to take photos, view them and delete the ones we didn’t want. We worked in groups supporting each other and critiquing the photographs we shared.