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Date: 5th Jan 2022 @ 5:23pm
As an introduction to our new topics in Science, Animals including Humans, and Design Technology Puppets today we created Sock Puppets. Although it was quite tricky to get some of the pieces to stick and figuring out the correct way to work a Sock Puppet the children did brilliantly and showed super perseverance and patience. We are all looking forward to continuing our learning in both Science and Design Technology and are excited to make puppets again later in the term. Well done everyone, they look fabulous!
Year 6 An introduction to the Vikings
Date: 5th Jan 2022 @ 12:14pm
Although it was a chilly morning, Year 6 began their Vikings topic by learning outside. We worked in teams and enjoyed taking part in a teasure hunt for Viking facts.
Reception Now Press Play...The Christmas Story
Date: 17th Dec 2021 @ 12:02pm
The children of Reception have been learning about why Christians celebrate Christmas and this week we listened to the Christmas Story using the headphones. They followed the instructions and went on an exciting journey to Bethlehem where baby Jesus was born.
Take a look at pur photos!
Date: 17th Dec 2021 @ 11:55am
We had a very special visitor to our Reception Christmas Party this week- Father Christmas! The children were so excited! After dancing and singing and playing games, such as pass the parcel, they heard sleigh bells ringing and just like that- he appeared at our door!
He listened to what each child wanted for Christmas and then gave them all a present!
Merry Christmas to you all!
Date: 16th Dec 2021 @ 8:01pm
Today Year 1 enjoyed our Christmas Party! We danced and played lots of games including musical statues, musical bumps and pass the parcel. We wore our best part clothes and had a brilliant time! A special visitor even came to surprise us and gave us all an early Christmas present. We then enjoyed a well earned rest with some party food and a Christmas pantomime.
Date: 16th Dec 2021 @ 7:41pm
Today we explored the Christmas Story through Art. In RE this half term we have learnt the Nativity story and we have also explored this throughout our school assemblies about Advent. Today we brought that learning together to retell the Christmas Story and create a picture to depict an important part of the story. We carefully cut out the individual parts and collaged the Three Kings clothing before arranging it on the paper.
Date: 16th Dec 2021 @ 4:50pm
We have had a super time celebrating Christmas! We've done lots of Christmas crafts, worked hard in Santa's workshop and made everyone proud at our fabulous sing along! To top off our magical Christmas celebrations we had a Christmas party and there was even a special visitor!
Simply having a wonderful Christmas time!
Date: 16th Dec 2021 @ 4:29pm
Today we were so excited to have our class christmas parties! We played corners and musical statues and danced away! We even had a special visit from Santa Claus who gave us a christmas present !
Date: 16th Dec 2021 @ 4:14pm
In Art we have been perfecting our pointillism skills. We used inspiration from George Seurat and planned our own poiltillism piece. We sketched out the design and thought carefully about our choice of colours, ensuring they complemented each other and set the correct mood desired for our piece. We focussed on line, coloour and texture in our final piece.
Date: 16th Dec 2021 @ 11:29am
What a wonderful event bringing us all together. The Grange Park parade was a huge success showing wonderful community spirit after another difficult year. Thank you to all of those involved.
Date: 14th Dec 2021 @ 7:40pm
As the final part of our DT journey all about structures, today we made our final product.
Firstly we talked about different attachment techniques we may use to make our design strong and sturdy. We then learnt how we were going to bring all our previous learning together to create our playground structure design from the materials we detailed on our designs. We showed lots of perseverance and determination throughout our learning!
Date: 14th Dec 2021 @ 4:52pm
Nursery held a very magical Christmas Sing Along in our Garden. The children practised so hard to learn all the songs and sang their hearts out and danced their socks off!
Date: 13th Dec 2021 @ 9:05pm
Reception have been very busy over the last few weeks rehearsing for our annual Nativity production. Through songs, acting, story telling, art and crafts, Reception have been learning why Christians celebrate Christmas.
"Jesus was born" Ariella
"Mary and Joseph travelled to Bethlehem on a donkey" Charlie
"There was nowhere to stay" Isaac.
"There was a bright star" Isabelle
"The three kings visited baby Jesus" Marleigh
"They brought gold, frankincense and myrrh" Loui.
Date: 13th Dec 2021 @ 8:19pm
In line with our RE topic of Hinduism, Year 5 were lucky enough to receive a visit from two practicing Hindu's.
They told us about their life, how they found Hinduism and why they started to practice. They had brought in lots of important objects for us to have a look at, and even let us try on the traditional clothes of angarkha and sari's.
It was fascinating to learn about Hinduism in such a creative and practical way to assist our theoretical learning.
Date: 13th Dec 2021 @ 7:57pm
We have been getting into the Christmas spirit over the past few days!
Last week we enjoyed a delicious Christmas dinner with all of the trimmings whilst we were sat laughing and singing with our friends whilst we pulled crackers.
It made it even more festive as we were dressed in our Christmas jumpers!
It definitely got us into the spirit!
Date: 13th Dec 2021 @ 1:24pm
We finsihed our science unit on electricity by completing a Just Press Play activity. We were transported into a world where the power had gone off and had to solve various problems to ensure it was reconnected. We learned about renewable energy and just how much we all rely on electricity.
Date: 13th Dec 2021 @ 7:50am
This half term, Year 2 have been exploring materials and their properties. Last week, we planned and conducted two experiments to test different materials properties to see which is the best material for different uses and how suitable it is. First, we tested different materials absorbency to see which material is the best to be used to clean up spillages in the dinner hall. We found that cotton balls are the most absorbent but paper towels are more practical as they are bigger. We then tested materials to see if we could change thier shape. We tried to bend, squash, twist and stretch a selection of materials and recorded our results in a table.
Date: 12th Dec 2021 @ 8:22am
We had a lovely afternoon creating our nativity art. The children each created their own section of a stained glass window. The individual pieces, each depicting part of a nativity scene, were then joined to make a larger piece,
Date: 10th Dec 2021 @ 4:07pm
As part of our whole school learning around the Christmas story and advent, Year Two designed and painted some pebbles so they could retell the story of the first Christmas. Firstly, we drew our designs on paper and painted our pebbles white. Then we carefully sketched our designs in pencil before painting them onto the pebbles.
Date: 9th Dec 2021 @ 7:53pm
This week in our Computing lesson we have explored online safety through the story 'The Adventures of Smartie the Penguin!' We began by thinking about how we find out information on the internet and discussing these search enginges. We learnt about SafeSearchKids and how this is a safe place for us to search for information. We were then introduced to SMART and we learnt what each letter stands for in relation to online safety. We then read our story and helped Smartie to make some safe and smart decisions when using his device. We learnt a song to help us to help Smartie...
Before you tap and click...
You need to stop and think...
And TELL someone!
We discussed who could help us if something happens online that we are not sure about. We then completed tasks to help us further understand information we should keep safe and what we can share.
Date: 9th Dec 2021 @ 7:49pm
On Monday this week we enjoyed our Christmas dinner and Christmas jumper day. We arrived at school very excited and festive, complete with Christmas jumpers and accessories. At lunch time we ate our lunch surrounded by Christmas songs and lots of lights! We enjoyed pulling our crackers with our friends and teachers and wearing our party hats. It was great fun!
Date: 9th Dec 2021 @ 7:40pm
This week we have explored freestanding structures in DT, through looking at familiar playground equipment. We began by exploring existing different types of playground equipment. We talked about the different pieces of equipment we enjoy playing on at a playground and why we like them. Looking at all these different types of equipment we discussed the questions...
What is it called?
What is it used for?
How do you use it?
What is it made from?
We then drew and labelled our favourite piece of equipment.
Date: 9th Dec 2021 @ 7:19pm
In Music today we have been looking at reading sheet music. Over the last couple of weeks we have been studying the different note lengths and names and today we had to use that knowledge to work out the names of the notes in a piece of music. We then used the glockenspiels to play several bars of the music - we managed to keep in time to the beat and together we kept the melody going.
Do You Want To Make a Reindeer?
Date: 9th Dec 2021 @ 5:11pm
We love a bit of Christmas craft in nursery and this week we have certainly been getting very crafty! We have made Christmas cards, salt dough pots, designed christmas jumpers and made Santa and reindeer faces! Have a look at our pictures to see how you could make your own paper plate reindeer face. The chidlren had to apply just the right amount of paint so that it covered the whole plate but didn't make it too soggy. Then they had to use their understanding of positional langauge to make sure they put the eyes, nose and antlers in the right place and also use their knowledge of number to make sure they counted out the right amount of each of these. They also talked about reindeer, what they do, how they fly and even tried to remember all of the reindeer names. What a lot of learning from a simple paper plate!
Date: 9th Dec 2021 @ 4:05pm
This week in French, we have continued to learn about French verbs. After learning the rules for conjugating regular verbs earlier this half term, we have now begun to learn about irregular verbs. First, we found various French verbs in the dictionary and translated them into English. Then we learned how to conjugate the irregular verbs avoir (to have), aller (to go) and être (to be).
