Spiders!

Magpies enjoyed listening to the story Aaaaaargh Spider! in literacy. We imagined having our own pet spiders and wrote about them. We found out interesting facts about spiders and made paper spiders with glittery webs in our art lessons. When we came to school one morning, we found...

Using Our Senses

Magpies have been having fun using their senses in science lessons. We tried to guess the smells in in different pots. We thought it was difficult because we couldn’t see what was inside. We enjoyed trying diffeent flavours of crisps. Salt and vinegar crisps were our...

Magpies Artists.

Magpies working during arts...

Our Chicks

  Magpies have been carefully looking after some eggs. The eggs were in an incubator in the classroom and we had to turn them every day. The incubator kept the eggs warm. The eggs hatched after 21 days. We have seven chicks! They are yellow and fluffy. We feed them chick crumbs and they...

Olympic torch comes to ...

On Thursday morning Smeeth children were involved in an olympic first.  The winning torch design  from the local schools competition had been delivered to the school from Brook Primary School.  All of the children paired up and then completed a relay around the school.  After making...

Making Vehicles

As part of our work on Transport,  we all designed and made vehicles. We glued boxes together and attached wheels and axles to the base. Then we painted them. All our vehicles look...