Christmas comes to Frederick Bird

This week the school has been transformed as Christmas arrived at Frederick Bird. Classrooms have been decorated with lots of lights, lots of sparkle and even a little magic. Every single team across the school has really put the effort into making this happen for our children. You can see from the photos below just…

An Environmental Remaster

As we come to the end of another busy week we wanted to share with you some absolutely beautiful examples of how far our learning environment has come. Below are some photographs of classrooms from across school taken this week. The staff have been working hard for the children so that our classrooms and school…

Year 1 – Literacy

This half term Year 1 have been reading the story of Rapunzel written by Bethan Woollvin.  We have really enjoyed learning about the different characters and discovering the twist at the end of the story!  Have a look at pictures of us making a witch’s potion.  Here is the recipe – One smelly rat Two…

Jeans for Genes Day

Jeans for Genes Day is all about raising money to help some of the most vulnerable people in the UK. As a school we enjoyed wearing our jeans and collecting money in the little pair of jeans last Friday! The children talked about their jeans and the colour of their outfits, as well as basing some…

Key Stage 1 Sports Day

This year Sports Day took place on 20th June for Years 1 and 2 and 22nd June for Reception. These are some of the sports that the children took part in: hula hoop hopping race hurdles race sprint race beanbag throw sack race football penalty shoot out ball and spoon race There was also a staff race…

Year 1: Levers for a purpose

In DT the children in 1 Owls have been learning about the components of a lever.  They then designed and made their own animal feeder which included a lever. Their design was for a special purpose to feed Mrs Franklin-Hackett’s cat Suki, her cat treats. The children were so excited when Suki came to visit. They…