Redwoods: Blog items
Date: 17th Oct 2025 @ 12:52pm
In Redwoods we have spent alot of time this half term develop our understanding what resilience means and sometimes that this can be difficult to achieve. Together we have also been developing our ability to self regulate and identify ways to help ourselves to cover come barriers. We have enjoyed doing this through creative, purposeful and interactive activities. We learnt about the ' The Bounce Scale' and how to use this as a regulation tool.
Date: 17th Oct 2025 @ 12:48pm
This week we explored a range of different healthy fruits and what they taste like. After thinking carefully about how these fruits tasted we designed our own fruit smoothie. Once we were happy and with an adults help we prepared our fruit for blending by using safe cutting skills that we have mastered. Finally we enjoyed drinking our smoothies before evaluatign them.
Redwoods Cooking Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Date: 29th Sep 2025 @ 3:57pm
In this weeks cooking lesson we discussed more about kitchen safety before looking at the steps to making chocolate chip cookies. We measured out each of our ingrediants before creating our cookies dough and baking it. Our cookies were tasty and crunchy.
Redwoods : Addition and Subtraction
Date: 29th Sep 2025 @ 3:25pm
In Maths we have been looking at different strategies for addition and subtraction. We have looked at practical strategies with physical resources, counting forwards and backwards, before we started to look at efficient methods.
Date: 29th Sep 2025 @ 3:22pm
In Redwoods we have started to create the parts for our first playground project. We are creating a bowling alley with recylable resources. So far we have painted the tires for the barriers of our lane and some bottles which will become the skittles.
Date: 18th Sep 2025 @ 3:05pm
We have begun our art journey looking at printing and different ways we can create abstract aretwork using hand prints. We looked at examples produced by artists around the world, before we explored a range of colours. It was intersting to explore the different shades we could make and the different compositions we could make with our hand prints.
Date: 18th Sep 2025 @ 9:14am
This week we have been further developing our ability to regulate our emotions, develop our resilience when dealing with problems and challenges. We worked collaboratiovely to create towers as tall as possible.
Date: 18th Sep 2025 @ 9:08am
Yesterday we had so much fun baking flapjacks. Before we entered the kitchen we discussed the health and safety rules, as we were using the ovens and hobs. Together we identified the procedure we would follow and how we would would in pirs and small groups.
Date: 12th Sep 2025 @ 2:40pm
In Redwoods we enjoyed working with a partner to measure ingrediants and create our own pizza dough. Once be had baked our bases we prepared a range of toppings, before finally making our masterpieces. We enjoyed getting to eat our final products, which were delicious.
