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Year 2's Summer Forest School Fun
Date: 20th Apr 2023 @ 2:57pm
Today, Year Two enjoyed the first of their final three forest school sessions whilst they are in Year 2. Today we began the session by checking on the progress of the tadpoles and thought about where in their life cycle they are at. Then, Jenna and Michelle had set up lots of different dandelion activities for us to do. We could choose from making dandelion patterns on a piece of fabric by bashing rocks onto the dandelions and leaves to leave marks on the fabric, we could make dandelion pom-poms using wool as well as washing dandelions ready for us to make dandelion tea. At the end of the session, we tried the dandelion tea we had made, some of us enjoyed it whilst others thought it tasted disgusting. We are looking forward to continuing our forest school fun next week.
Year 1 Making Our Playground Structure
Date: 20th Apr 2023 @ 2:55pm
Today we made our piece of playground equipment according to our design. We looked through our design, describing how we were going to make our playground equipment to each other. We then followed our design to create our playground equipment, thinking carefully about the components, materials and attachment techniques. We then discussed two key questions, ‘what we will do if we come across a problem while we are making our playground equipment?’ and ‘how can we make sure our piece of playground equipment turns out how we want it to?’ Finally, we considered how we were going to stay safe whilst we were working, before beginning to make our final design!
Year 3 - Features of a Discussion Text
Date: 20th Apr 2023 @ 2:51pm
In Reading into Writing we have been looking at discussion text and pulling out the features. Today we focussed on rhetorical questions, emotive language and facts/statistics. We completed various activities in teams around the room. By doing this, we upleveled our emotive vocabulary, created a bank of useful rhetorical questions and defined the difference between fact and opinion.
Date: 20th Apr 2023 @ 2:45pm
In Science, we started our journey learning about plants. We went to our forest school area and had a hunt for plants. We discussed how these had changed since we were in Forest School in winter and why that might be. When we got back to class, we discussed and recapped from KS1 what plants need to grow. We then went on to planning our own experiement to test what would happen if we were to change the liquid given to a plant. Would this change the growth rate?
Date: 20th Apr 2023 @ 10:33am
Today we completed our final lesson on Tinkercad. We used everything we have previously learned to design and make our own 3D structure. We think our final products are brilliant and use lots of appealing features.
Date: 19th Apr 2023 @ 8:49pm
This half term we are learning about the life cycles of plants and animals. This lesson was about flowering plants and how they reproduce. Pupils learned the difference between sexual and asexual reproduction in plants, and the positves and negatives accociated with each method. Next, we found out about pollination and the importance of insects in this process. Pupils found the names of the different parts of a flower and labelled a diagram, then dissected a daffoldil flower to find the different parts and see what they look like in real life.
Date: 19th Apr 2023 @ 6:08pm
After exploring existing products, it was then time to explore different ways of joining and strengthening materials to create pieces of playground equipment. We learnt that when we design a product we need to make sure it is suitable for the purpose we are designing it for. We then began to experiment with different materials to see how to make pieces of playground equipment. We were given a variety of materials and we worked through making a number of different attachments techniques including the flange, slot, l brace and tabs. We had to make sure that each join was sturdy and strong and that it moved as it is supposed to. We then moved onto using the paper stores to make a range of 2D shapes that will support us when making the frames for our structures.
Date: 19th Apr 2023 @ 5:00pm
Today, we planted some cress seeds, sunflower seeds and runner beans so we can observe their changes over time. We are exploring whether beans need soil to germinate and if cress needs light to grow into a healthy plant. We look forward to looking at them over time and exploring their changes.
Year 3 Computing Creating Media
Date: 19th Apr 2023 @ 11:53am
Today we started our computing unit and discussed how images and text can work together to communicate meaning and messages. We looked at many different symbols and sorted the advantages and disadvantages of using text, images or both. We then went online on the Chromebooks. Having logged in successfully, we created a new Google Doc and changed the page orientation. Finally we started to add text and images to send a Happy Birthday or Happy New Year poster.
Year 4 - King Charles III's Coronation Song
Date: 18th Apr 2023 @ 3:43pm
Today we started to learn the song for King Charles III's Coronation Day in May. We listened and appraised it using our brilliant musical vocabulary and then we started to have a go at singing it.
Date: 18th Apr 2023 @ 3:40pm
We have started this half term by reading lots of examples of folktales. We found the features of a folktale, which we made a list of and then today we reread the folktales we read yesterday and highlighted them. We can't wait to get our creative juices flowing when we write our own.
Date: 18th Apr 2023 @ 3:37pm
Today we started our unit about The Amazon River. We started by doing a flashback to define some river features and then we got the atlas' out to find South America. We located 10 of the South American countries and then looked at where The Amazon rainforest and rivers are.
Date: 17th Apr 2023 @ 7:53pm
We started our new Science unit all about Sound today by going around school on a sound walk. We took a decibels meter with us so we could measure the sound in each area and we wrote down what sounds we could hear. We discussed whether or not there would be any areas in school where there's complete silence and we all agreed that would only be likely when school is closed.
Date: 6th Apr 2023 @ 2:34pm
Nursery finished off a fab half term with some Easter fun! The Easter Bunny paid us a special visit and hid a golden egg in the school. The children had to follow the Easter clues to find the Golden Egg. The children were delighted to find that the Golden Egg was full of delicious chocolate! The chocolate fun didn't stop there. To finish off the week we made some tasty Easter nests!
Date: 6th Apr 2023 @ 2:25pm
Nursery had a super stay and play with our parents. There were lots of fun Easter crafts to do and it was lovely to see so many parents coming to play with their children. They made Easter Bunny bookmarks, iced some Easter biscuits and did some Easter egg printing.
Reception Spring Term Stay and Play
Date: 6th Apr 2023 @ 2:03pm
This week the children in Reception invited their parents in to come into our termly stay and play. It was a fantastic turn out with 25 families coming into school to support their children. The children enjoyed showing their family members around the room, demonstrating how they complete their 'mini mes' indpendently and sharing what they had been learning over past term. Thank you for your continued support over the past term. Your input at home really does make a difference to the children's learning.
Date: 6th Apr 2023 @ 1:52pm
Why do Christians celebrate Easter?
This week Reception have been learning about the Easter story. On Monday, in a whole school assembly, they listened to Year 6 and Reverend Matt explaining the Easter story. After assembly, the children then made an Easter picture of a cross on a hill.
"Jesus died on the cross" Finley.
"He was crucified" Logan.
"He died and was put in a cave" Lana- Rose
"Jesus came back to life" Lennox
Date: 6th Apr 2023 @ 12:23pm
We had lots of brilliant entries for our school Easter egg competition! Well done everyone!
Date: 5th Apr 2023 @ 8:13pm
During this lesson we explored the different types of weather in the United Kingdom. First, we learnt about symbols that represent different types of weather. We then answered the following questions: what is the weather like today? What has the weather been like this week? What has the weather been like this month? We discussed that in the past month it has been cold, warm, sunny, rainy, windy, cloudy and snowy! We watched how to fill out a weather diary and how we can work out the temperature. We then had a go at filling out our own weather diaries. We will update these daily throughout this week to explore the different types of weather this week brings!
‘This morning it was rainy, windy and cloudy. This afternoon there was no wind but it was still rainy and cloudy’
‘Yesterday it was sunny and warm all day!’
‘On Monday it was 14 °C and today it is 11 °C. It was warmer on Monday than it is today.’
Date: 5th Apr 2023 @ 6:25pm
During this lesson we focused on finding clues to describe what season we are in. We recapped on the four seasons and which clues can help us identify each. We then went outside to explore our school environment and find physical clues to identify the current season. We filled in our scavenger hunt and I spy sheets, based on what we could see outside. When we came back into the classroom, we then discussed the seasonal clues we had found.
We answered these key questions, what can we see around school that shows what season it is? and how can we use this evidence to explain which season we are in?
Date: 5th Apr 2023 @ 4:58pm
This week, Year Two have been making their moving vehicles based upon their initial designs. First, the children built their axles, wheels and chassis using construction kits before chosing a box of an appropriate size to use as the body of their vehicle. Next, we painted the boxes the colour we stated in our design and today we thought about the features of a moving vehicle and added them to our final masterpiece. We used a variety of materials to create windows, doors, registration plates, handles, aerials and windscreen wipers. The children have loved making their cars and cannot wait to share their learning with you.
Date: 4th Apr 2023 @ 8:30pm
This week in Coding Club, we used scratch.mit.edu to create a chase game. Pupils had to use the coding blocks to program a sprite to move when the arrow keys were pressed, and a second sprite to move around the screen randomly. Pupils developed the code so that when the sprites touched, a sound played and 1 was added to the player's score. The final challenge was to display a 'level-up' message and change the background when a given score was reached. All the pupils did very well when programming this game and were successful - some even developed the game further with their own ideas.
Date: 4th Apr 2023 @ 12:07pm
Once again, Gardening Club has begun and children have been busy planting lots of seeds.
Spring has arrived and the school grounds are starting to come alive with the Spring flowers Gardening Club planted in Autumn, (daffodils, crocus and hyacynth) and the leaves and blossom are now growing on the trees.
As it is the growing season, Gardening Club have begun to grow brocolli, tomatoes, spinach and various herbs. Hopefully, as the seeds germinate, we should have a bumper crop to enjoy in a few months time- watch this space!
"The seeds need lots of water to help them grow" Connor.
"Hopefully, it should be sunny which will make the tomatoes grow big" Sharleigh.
Date: 3rd Apr 2023 @ 6:40pm
Today we learnt to measure in cm. We learnt that you have to line up the item you are measuring at 0 and that each mark is 1cm. We practised measuring straight lines first, before moving on to measuring objects around the classroom.
Date: 3rd Apr 2023 @ 4:17pm
Today we used the Now Press Play equipment to put ourselves into Mary Seacole’s shoes and live key events of her life. We started out working in Jamaica with our mother to heal sick soldiers and help treat a soldier who has cholera. We then see Florence Nightingale is recruiting nurses for the Crimean war but we got told they don’t want us. We then decide to use our own money to travel to Crimea alone to help soldiers on the battlefield. Eventually, after returning from the war we are rewarded with a medal from Queen Victoria.
