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Date: 28th Apr 2021 @ 11:25am
In computing this week we used the Beebots! For the past few weeks we have looked at algorithms, creating step by step instructions and saying why it is important to be precise when writing an algorithm. We have tried hard to learn our left and right from different points and which way is clockwise or anticlockwise. This week we put all our prior learning into practise to program Beebots. We used the terms algorithm, sequence, debugging and programming to explain what instructions we were giving to our Beebots, to get them to move from one point to another. We had to remember to clear each previous instruction before giving our Beebot a new instruction, or our Beebots went off in the wrong direction! We worked in small groups to program the Beebots and then on the IPads using the Beebot app.
DT Day- Reception make fruit jelly pots!
Date: 27th Apr 2021 @ 4:59pm
Today in Reception the children have been designing and making their own fruit jelly pots ready for our whole school Olympics opening ceremony buffet. As a class we started off by looking at a range of different fruits. We described what they looked like, how they felt and were even lucky enough to taste them.
Date: 27th Apr 2021 @ 4:21pm
We are continuing our growing theme this week - this time with plants! So far we have planted some cress seeds and sunflower seeds and talked about all the things they need to grow. Fingers crossed we all have green fingers and our seeds will start to grow!
Date: 27th Apr 2021 @ 2:59pm
In Reception we have been reading the story
Date: 26th Apr 2021 @ 7:46pm
Today was Design Technology day in Year 5. Our focus was cooking, specifically savoury scones. We started the day by learning about nutrients, healthy eating and food safety, before moving on to research and then taste various savoury products. We created design criteria and then practiced the skills we would need including weighing, measuring and combining butter and flour by rubbing in. After baking our scones, we evaluated the final product but all the children agreed that they were delicious!
Date: 26th Apr 2021 @ 5:11pm
The children in Reception have started doing daily challenges! Each day the whole class are set a challenge which they have to carry out on their own in order to receive a Challenge Medal! This is to encourage independent learning- they can do it whenever they want but it must be completed by lunchtime! They were very excited to take control of their own learning and very proud to wear a medal. Take a look at some of our photos.
Recording the Results of our Plant Investigation
Date: 26th Apr 2021 @ 4:11pm
This week we looked closely at our plants and discovered what they actually need to grow. We put one in the cupboard so it had no light, one in the fridge so it had a low temperature and one plant didn't give any water to. It was clear to see that the plant that suffered most had had no water. We discovered that it was most important to give plants water because the plants can survive for a while without heat or light.
We also observed how seeds germinated with just water and warm in the cups - the mustard seeds and broad beans started to sprout and grow!
Date: 26th Apr 2021 @ 10:09am
In music we started to look at aboriginal music. We linked this to our geography topic and decided to focus on Australian music. We listened to and appraised a variety of Australian Aboriginal music and we found it extremely interesting. We realised that to make music they used natural resources and their voices. We went outside and used resources that we could find in our playground, wooden instruments and also our bodies to compose our own piece of music.
Date: 26th Apr 2021 @ 10:00am
On Tuesday we had one of our termly No Pen Days.
In maths, KS2 pupils looked at 2D shapes and their properties whilst KS1 pupils were practising counting in 2s.
In reading into writing, KS2 pupils looked at different word classes whilst KS1 pupils used colourful semantics cards to build sentences and talk about what happened in the story Beegu.
Date: 26th Apr 2021 @ 8:24am
This week we remembered Captain Sir Tom Moore and how much he fundraised for the NHS by completing 100 laps of his garden. He was inspirational and embodied the British Values and fighting spirit throughout the Covid Pandemic. We completed our own Challenge 100, by doing 100 of anything.
In Forest school some people collected 100 flowers or pinecones, did 100 star jumps, built their own tower and completed 100 leaps! Some people even made 100 sparks!
Reception learn about Vaisakhi and Sikhism
Date: 23rd Apr 2021 @ 8:49pm
This week Reception have been learning about Vaisakhi, a very important Sikh festival which a celebrated everyday year in April. The festival celebrates Sikh new year and the founding of the Sikh community in 1699. Miss Kaur brought in come special items from home to share with us and talked to use about how she and her family celebrate this festival together.
We found out the Sikhism originates in India, which is a very long way away. We were lucky enough to look at Miss Kaur's Granth, her special holy book, which includes scriptures and holy stories related to the Sikh religion. We also looked at
Date: 23rd Apr 2021 @ 4:55pm
Year 4 have started to learn how to program in computing. The children went onto Hour Of Code to complete many computing challenges in a Minecraft style game. The children had to debug some of their coding if they did not complete the challenge correctly. This was to ensure they went onto the next level.
Date: 22nd Apr 2021 @ 3:07pm
We have carried on looking at the life cycle of a butterfly this week and have enjoyed watching our caterpillars getting bigger! We have also been looking closely at the wings of butterflies and noticed that both wings are exactly the same! They are symmetrical!
Date: 21st Apr 2021 @ 4:00pm
As it was no pen day on Tuesday the children took part in a relay style maths lesson in which they had to collect parts of a fraction wall. As a team they had to collect all the pieces of the fraction wall to rebuild it on paper. The children thoroughly enjoyed this lesson and worked really hard to complete this task.
Date: 21st Apr 2021 @ 12:58pm
Here in Cedar, we have begun our new Reading into Writing journey focusing on Biographies. We began by reading through a number of biographies of famous people, picking out the main features of the genre. We also identified some GPS features within the genre and have been working on developing our skills. We first identified when and why we use capital letters. We learnt what the difference is between proper nouns, common nouns and pronouns. We then learnt how to use apostrophes for contractions and procession. We are looking forward to applying our new skills in extended writing when we write our own biography about Neil Armstrong.
Date: 21st Apr 2021 @ 7:15am
Today we took part in another No Pen Day. We spent time working with others and discussing odd one out pictures. This involved looking at sets of numbers/pictures and working out which one we thought was the odd one out. We had to give clear reasons for answers. In English, we continued with our Quest stories and looked through the book
Date: 20th Apr 2021 @ 8:35pm
In PE we are focusing on our under and over arm throwing skills before we do some rounders games! We have also been practising our gymnastic skills - rolls, travels, balances and jumps with control. Everyday we have also been trying to contribute to the Road to Tokyo and complete the Boundary Mile at break and lunch time to make sure we are keeping fit and active. We're working as a team to make sure we get to the Olympics!
Date: 20th Apr 2021 @ 4:37pm
As the Year 2 introduction to Electricity, we completed an exciting circuit of activities! We found that we could use static electricity to make our hair stand to attention and that by just rubbing a balloon against our jumpers we could make it stick to the wall! It was quite tricky but lots of us persevered until we were successful!
We also used static electricity to make salt and pepper jump from a bowl onto a comb! We loved watching this happen.
Finally, we used the snap circuits. We followed instructions to make weird and wonderful things. Some of us used the circuits to make alien sounds, some people made a fan fly across the room and some of us even made our circuits sing Happy Birthday!
We had a wonderful afternoon of learning and we can't wait to find out more about electricity.
Date: 20th Apr 2021 @ 4:36pm
As part of our PSHE topic of learning how to keep ourselves safe, we created role play situations in small groups demonstrating the dangers of particular hazards and how we could take steps to stay safe. We also played a safety board game in pairs.
Date: 20th Apr 2021 @ 4:24pm
Fourteen children from Year Five took part in a musical theatre workshop with Georgia from the Italia Conti Theatre School. Everyone loved learning to sing, act and dance musical numbers from the musical
