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Year 2 George's Marvelous Dancing
Date: 15th Mar 2022 @ 2:35pm
This half term in PE, Year 2 are focusing on Dance. We begun the half term by linking our dance to our Science topic Electricity and did lots of work moving our bodies as if it was full of Electricity. Now we have developed the confidence to move our bodies creatively we have begun to create a dance based on our class novel 'George's Marvellous Medicine.' First we created a bank of adjectives to describe George and Granny before acting these out and adding movement to it; then we got out some different resources and using their magical powers controlling us before we added them to our potions. We are impressed with the children's determination and team work skills and cannot wait to see the final performance.
Year 4 Should Emperor Claudius have invaded Britain?
Date: 14th Mar 2022 @ 7:38pm
Last week in History, we looked at the different reasons as to why Roman Emperor Claudius would have left hot, sunny Italy to invade cold we Britain. We played the part of his advisors and looked at reasons why it would have been a good idea and why it would have been a bad idea to invade Britain. We rounded the lesson off with a good old debate, with some fantastic arguments for both sides, and some well thought out counter arguments from our Year 4's!
Nursery Whose Been Eating My Porridge?
Date: 11th Mar 2022 @ 2:03pm
We have been exploring the traditional tale "Goldllocks and The Three Bear" this week. We have used puppets to retell the story, painted the three bears by selecting the appropriate tools and retold the story using puppets and small world figures. The children also explored mark making by making wanted posters for Goldilocks and making a story map.
Nursery Let Me See Those Fingers!
Date: 11th Mar 2022 @ 1:50pm
Every week we have a variety of activites that help the children to develop their gross and fine motor skills. This is a vital part of a childs development and leads to them being able to hold a pencil effectively. Have a look at the photos to see some of this weeks activities.
Date: 11th Mar 2022 @ 7:24am
This week, our RE lesson was based around the story of Daniel and the Lion's Den. We watched a video explaining what happened to Daniel and we decided to have a class debate. Some of us argued that Daniel should have been sent to the Lion's Den and others argued against that. There was some fantastic collaborative learning, teamwork and well thought out arguments and counter arguments from our Year 4's this week.
Date: 10th Mar 2022 @ 7:30pm
Today we practised counting in 10s. Alongside our written work we used physical resources, including base 10 and Numicon, to practise counting on. We also did our daily maths workout song – but today we were counting in 10s!
Year 2 And I Present to you...
Date: 10th Mar 2022 @ 5:28pm
This half term, Year 2 are creating a Presentation based around our learning in Design Technology on Wheels and Axles. To make our presentation, we decided to use Google Slides as it saves the work as we go along. So far the children have learnt the basic skills to turn the Chromebooks on and sign in to their school Google account before moving on to some trickier skills. This week we focused on adding images to our slides to make it more interesting. The children are showing great perseverance and are becoming quite fast at this now! We cannot wait to see the finished presentation.
Date: 10th Mar 2022 @ 5:22pm
Today in Year 2, we began to make our moving vehicle that will transport our Fairytale character to their event linking to our current Reading into Writing journey. We began by exploring fixed and free axels and discussed the differences before evaluating which we thought would be the best to use for our own vehicle. We chose free axles and used dowels putting them through a card template to ensure our axle was steady before choosing some wheels to attach to our axle. We then decided blu tac would allow more movement for our wheels compared to glue so secured our wheels to our axles using this. It was really fun but it wasn't always easy and the children showed great perseverance and teamwork to support one another.
Date: 10th Mar 2022 @ 5:07pm
In maths this week the children in year 5 set sail across the Atlantic Ocean on the world-famous cruise liner, Titanic. Using our interactive resource, Now Press Play, the pupils were transported back in time to April 10th 1912, where they were able to stow away on to the Titanic to find their estranged father in New York. After hitting the iceberg, the children had to use their knowlege of fractions and their calculation skills to solve problems and reach the lifeboats before the ship sank into the ice-cold water.
Date: 10th Mar 2022 @ 2:25pm
This week in Reception the children have been talking about the importance of reusing and recycling unwanted waste. We collected a range of different bottles, cartons, boxes, tubs and tubs and used them to create our own junk model animals. We use tape and glue to attach the items together and them used different matterials and paint to decorate them. We made some fantastic wild animlas including parrots, elephants, giraffes, snakes and monkeys.
Date: 10th Mar 2022 @ 9:25am
In Year 3 we have begun our new Design Technology unit of sewing! We have been looking at different pillows and which stiches they have used to attatched them. Today we focussed on how to thread a needle and how to complete back stich.
Date: 9th Mar 2022 @ 12:29pm
Date: 7th Mar 2022 @ 7:20pm
This week in PSHE we explored our similarities, differences, likes and dislikes. We talked about what 'special' and 'unique' mean and understood that we are all one of a kind! We then looked at pictures of lots of different children and with our talk partners we explored what was the same about them and what was different about them. We saw that some children had different skin colours, some had different hair colours, some were girls, some were boys but they were all special! We then read the story 'Eat your Peas' and talked about our own likes and dislikes. We understood this was our opinion and there was no right or wrong answer!
Date: 4th Mar 2022 @ 5:19pm
This week in French Year 4 have been learning all about houses and the different types of rooms. We have also been discussing different types of environment that people live in. For example, the city, by the sea and in the countryside. We had a great paired discussion and activity this week!
Date: 4th Mar 2022 @ 5:16pm
This week we celebrated World Book Day 2022! We had a fantastic day in Year 4 as this was also our Forest School day! We had some great activites in class for World Book Day. We used our new bookmarks (which have a QR Code and log in details to access a whole online library on Oxford Owl) to do some book surfing and choose an online book to read. We talked about the characters that we had come dressed up as and what book they were from. We also played a fantastic quiz, thanks to Mrs Hamilton to nicely round off the day.
Year 6 Primary Futures live event
Date: 4th Mar 2022 @ 12:21pm
Today we took part in a Primary Futures live event where 3 different speakers talked to us about how important literacy skills are in their jobs. The jobs were a journalist, a banker and a marketing executive and they told us how reading and writing plays suh a vital role. It was really interesting to listen to them and find out about jobs that we could choose to have when we are older.
Date: 3rd Mar 2022 @ 8:12pm
Today we celebrated World Book. The children looked absolutely brilliant in their costumes and really put a lot of effort into becoming their characters. We had characters such as:
The convicts from Holes
Elizabeth Banks from Mary Poppins
Little Red Riding Hood
Anne Frank
Katniss Everdeen
The staff also enjoyed dressing up as some of their favourite characters. We also took park in a live event, which involved authors discussing their books and finished the day with a fun 50 question book quiz! We hope everyone enjoyed the day.
Date: 3rd Mar 2022 @ 7:33pm
As part of our World Book Day celebrations we came to school dressed as our favourite book character. We were all very excited as we had all kept our costumes a surprise until today! Our classroom was full of lots of book characters, including The Gingerbread Man, The Three Little Pigs, Mary Poppins, Willy Wonka, Harry Potter and Hermione Granger! Lots of effort was made and everyone looked brilliant. Throughout the day we took part in a special quiz and drew and wrote about our World Book Day costume.
Year 1 Continents of the World
Date: 3rd Mar 2022 @ 7:29pm
This week in Geography we began to name and locate the seven continents of the world. We recapped on where we are in the world before beginning to explore a world map. We found which country we live in on the map, before learning that there are 195 countries in the world! We then learnt that we can put the countries into groups and these large areas of land are called continents. We watched our continent song and we were able to name all 7 continents. We then located and labelled each continent and explored the shape of the continents to complete a matching activity.
Date: 3rd Mar 2022 @ 5:44pm
Wow! What a fantstic World Book Day! The children all looked fantastic in their costumes and loved listening to different stories and using the puppets from our story sacks! They also made some book marks and drew some super pictures of their book characters.
Date: 3rd Mar 2022 @ 5:00pm
This week we began our Design Technology journey and looked at a selection of moving toys. We enjoyed exploring how they worked and disucssing the similarities and differences between the different toys. We discovered the reason they all have round wheels and looked at the various ways in which the wheels and axels were attached to each other. We are looking forward to the rest of the journey and creating our own moving vehicles.
Date: 3rd Mar 2022 @ 4:39pm
For World Book Day we all came dressed up as our favourite book charcter. We had all sorts of charcters from a dinosaur to Harry Potter, Alice to Willy Wonka and goldilocks to Mary Poppins! We had great fun guessing each teacher's faviroute childhood book and enjoyed our World Book Day quizz which tested our knowledge of different books. We also thought about our chracter through a piece of writign and created charcter discriptions on who we were dressed up as.
Date: 3rd Mar 2022 @ 4:02pm
As part of World Book Day, we all came to school dressed as our favourite book characters. We had so many different characters including Oliver, Willy Wonka, Alice in Wonderland, Oompas Loopmas and Hermione Granger. Everyone looked fantastic! We also took part in some special WBD activities. We imagined we worked for Mr Willy Wonka and designed our very own magical sweet to be made in his factory. We had to describe what it looked and tasted like using interesting adjectives. In Maths, we continued with the chocolate theme and used pictograms and tally charts to compare the colours of sweets in a Smarties tube. We found out they were all very different!
Date: 3rd Mar 2022 @ 12:55pm
The children have enjoyed dressing up as their favourite book characte. We had some fantastic costumes including Harry Potter, Willy Wonka, Little Red Riding Hood, The Cat in Hat and Goldilocks. The children enjoyed listening and retelling their favourite stories. drawing, painting and writing about their favourite characters and making their own special bookmarks. The children are looking forward to spending their book tokens and getting a brand new book.
Date: 3rd Mar 2022 @ 7:55am
In science we have been investigating how we see and investigating light. We started with a cardboard box and considered what it would be like inside the box. We pierced hole in the box to see if we could see anything and concluded that darkness is the absence of light. We shone torches in the holes in the box to see if we could see any of the objects in the box. We found out that light travels in a straight line so therefore we could only see the objects directly under the torch.
