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Date: 12th May 2021 @ 5:08pm
Dinosaurs have taken over in the nursery this week! - they are eveywhere! Inside, outside, in the playdough, in the paint and even on the maths table! The children have become paleontologists and have found some dinosaur bones and skeletons and they even made their own dinosaur fossils!
Here's a dinosaur joke for you. "What do you call a dinosaur with no eyes?" "A do-you-think-he -saurs!"
Mental Health Awareness Week - Nature
Date: 12th May 2021 @ 8:25am
This week we got out into Nature and took notice of the world around us! We listened to the birds, smelled the grass and touched the grass whilst also noticing the wonder of nature. This was to help calm us down and give us som strategies to help improve our mental health. We also understood the 5 important things we can keep doing to help ourselves feel more resilient: Connecting with others, staying active, keeping learning, taking notice and giving of our time.
Date: 11th May 2021 @ 8:21pm
We have had a selection of entries from KS2 for the Boundary Voice competition, which required pupils to sing to their favourite backing track and send in a video for the virtual competition.
The singers were all brilliant and those who participated should be very proud!
We are delighted to have such talented pupils and can't wait to start the school choir again soon.
Fantastic winners have been chosen and will be put forward to the Virtual Blackpool Pop Idol 2021 - Good luck to them!
Date: 11th May 2021 @ 7:29pm
Congratulations to Katie who has recieved her Bronze Medal for her Drumming. She has passed this stage with the support of the Peripetatic teacher, Mr Simpson. Well Done!
She joins Rebecca and Lacey-Morgan who were also awarded their Medals for passing their exam during lockdown!
Date: 11th May 2021 @ 3:57pm
We continued our journey in multiplication and learned how to multiply 4-digit numbers by 2-digits. After becoming fluent with the method, we moved on to solve more complex problem solving and reasoning tasks, including missing number probems and those involving using trial and error.
Date: 11th May 2021 @ 11:45am
Today in gymnastics we used all of the equipment and experiment with ways of travelling between pieces and mounting/dismounting. We also used the equipment to practise balancing - firstly on our own and then with a partner.
Date: 10th May 2021 @ 4:28pm
In Geography, we continued our learning on Australia. We learnt about natural and manmade landmarks. We started by finding some famous landmarks on a map of the UK and then went on to compare these to Australian landmarks.
In groups, we were given a wallet of jigsaw pieces. We had to piece these together to make 5 famous Australia landmarks. We then had names and facts to try to match up to our landmarks. Finally we located these famous attractions on a map of Australia! We just wish we could have visited these amazing places in real life!
Date: 10th May 2021 @ 4:25pm
Year Two worked hard in pairs to solve a division problem based on the story of 100 Hungry Ants by Elinor Pinczes. We worked together to find all the possible ways of dividing 36 or 24 groups of ants. We tried to work systematically to make sure we found all the possibilities and we had some great discussions about using known facts to help us find all the ways. This also led to some great reasoning about odd and even numbers.
Miss Hooson and Mrs Fielding were very impressed with the perseverance and stamina shown whilst completing this task.
Date: 10th May 2021 @ 4:19pm
Today we enjoyed learning about Anthony Horowitz's reading experiences and then had 10 minutes in class reading our own books! It was relaxing but we also practised our reading skills!
Date: 10th May 2021 @ 4:16pm
After listening to and appraising aboriginal music, we moved on to using instruments made from natural materials such as wood and our body parts to compose our own pieces in small groups. We learnt what a crotchet was and we counted in beats of 4. In our teams, we composed our piece and practised, ready to perform next week.
RE - Learning about Christianity
Date: 10th May 2021 @ 4:08pm
We have been learning about Christianity in RE this half term and the old and new testament. We have learnt about the story Noah and his Ark, we have also thought about people in our lives who we look up to and should follow. We had to work as a team for this task to match the words and their definitions.
Date: 10th May 2021 @ 11:25am
Today, we took part in the #Take10 challenge. The event began with a 10 minute live event with the author Anthony Horowitz, who discussed what kind of books he enjoys reading and how he got into writing books. We all then read together for 10 minutes, including the adults. We are going to try and make sure we read for 10 minutes every day as this can help improve our vocabulary, our imagination and helps with our mental health.
Date: 10th May 2021 @ 7:36am
Today was the second day of our DT unit on making pizzas. We began the day by making the dough - we did this by following a simple recipe for the BBC
Date: 10th May 2021 @ 7:27am
Today we began our DT journey of making pizzas. We looked at what we already knew about pizzas, including how we make them. We began by tasting pizzas and evaluating what we liked/disliked. After that, we went into Redcliffes to make our pizza sauce. We read through the pizza sauce recipe and weighed out and measured the ingredients we needed. Then, we all had a go at chopping and peeling onions and garlic. After that, we mixed together all of the other ingredients: tinned tomatoes, tomato puree, oregano, basil, brown sugar and a bay leaf. We then heated the sauce through for 20 mins and set it cool. At the end of the day, we blitzed the sauce to make it smooth.
Date: 9th May 2021 @ 6:18pm
This afternoon we firstly completed an old and new toy sort, thinking about materials used, whether the toy was electric or not and the different kind of colours used. We then looked at our toy timeline. We looked at our example time line from Victorian toys to grandparents toys, to parents toys and finally to our toys! We tried hard to use our number knowledge to follow the years on the timeline and place each toy into the correct time period!
Date: 9th May 2021 @ 6:11pm
Today was our History Day! We began the day by talking about our favourite toys, and creating a mind map of all the toys we could think of. We thought of lots and lots! We then thought a bit more about what our favourite toys are and why they are our favourite, discussing with our talk partner what we like about them. After that, we talked about what our favourite games are to play, and who do we play them with.
After writing about our favourite toys we then began to think a bit more about what toys were like in the past and how we can find evidence to help us understand more about these toys. We thought we could ask older people we know, we could research on the Internet, we could visit museums or we could read non-fiction books.
It was then time to get ready for our visitors! We had some time to think of different questions we could ask our visitors to collect information about their favourite toys.
Releasing our butterflies in to the wild!
Date: 9th May 2021 @ 5:20pm
Over the past 3 week Reception have been closely observing our classroom caterpillars. We have be watching how they have grown and changed and talking about the lifecycle of the butterfly. When the caterpillars first arrived they were tiny, so small we had to use our magnifying glasses to look at them. Each day they have grown bigger and bigger because they have been eating the caterpillar food. Last week the caterpillars hung upside down and made a chrysalis around their body. At this point we carefully transferred them into out butterfly net and waited patiently for the butterflies to emerge. Finally on Thursday morning we watched as a butterflies emerged from their chrysalis. It was amazing! Their wings were very wet so we had to wait for them to dry. The we put some orange segments in the net for the butterflies to feed on. On Friday afternoon we talked about the importance of the butterflies being free so we let them go in the garden. They were very friendly and they enjoyed perching on the children's hands before flying off. Have a look at some of the amazing pictures of the children holding them.
Date: 8th May 2021 @ 8:03pm
Today was the second day of our DT unit on making pizzas. We began the day by making the dough - we did this by following a simple recipe for the BBC
Date: 7th May 2021 @ 7:29pm
Today in Science we created a microhabitat in the form of a bug hotel! We have linked our Reading into Writing sessions this week with our previous learning in Science and have been using our senses to complete sentence writing about hot and cold habitats. We have looked at the features of polar habitats, under the sea habitats and desert habitats. We then also looked at where various deserts are located on a World map. Before we went outside to forage for materials to make our bug hotel, we discussed what features bug hotels need to make an appropriate habitat for mini beasts. We said they need to be compact, contain different materials and have different layers. After foraging for materials we used our plastic bottles to create our very own micro bug hotels for our gardens.
Date: 7th May 2021 @ 5:39pm
In year four we have started to make different designs that have levers and linkages involved in order to make them move. We have started to plan and design our own moving design mechanism based Medusa from our previous journey in reading into writing, which was Myths.
Date: 7th May 2021 @ 3:35pm
The children took part in their final forest school session of year 4. They spent time building dens, shaving tree branches, doing finger nitting and looking at the tadpoles in the pond. They really enjoyed this session and said how they were all excited to start forest school again in year 5.
Date: 7th May 2021 @ 11:46am
In our computing lessons, we have been improving our typing and presentation skills.
We have used our computing skills across the curriculum too by manipulating shapes in maths and writing up our Hot Write from Reading into Writing.
Date: 7th May 2021 @ 10:46am
This half term we have been learning new golf skills. This week we learnt how to chip the ball using a
Date: 7th May 2021 @ 8:13am
Today we began our DT journey of making pizzas. We looked at what we already knew about pizzas, including how we make them. We began by tasting pizzas and evaluating what we liked/disliked. After that, we went into Redcliffes to make our pizza sauce. We read through the pizza sauce recipe and weighed out and measured the ingredients we needed. Then, we all had a go at chopping and peeling onions and garlic. After that, we mixed together all of the other ingredients: tinned tomatoes, tomato puree, oregano, basil, brown sugar and a bay leaf. We then heated the sauce through for 20 mins and set it cool. At the end of the day, we blitzed the sauce to make it smooth.
