: Blog items
Date: 2nd Mar 2021 @ 8:05pm
In PSHE we have been discussing looking after our environment. After looking at the amount of litter around the school, Year 6 stepped into action. We took a litter picker, a bin bag and spent a good hour cleaning up the rubbish around Boundary. We managed to collect 6 full bin bags worth of rubbish. Our message to people is to take your rubbish home with you or use a bin if there is one in the local area.
We will be working on letters to the council and local residents soon to discuss what we can do with not only the litter problem but the dog foul too as we found quite a lot of that!!
Date: 2nd Mar 2021 @ 8:01pm
We've had a great day here in Blue Bubble without our devices. We have spent the day playing games, constructing shapes/towers with art straws and baking. We have made pizzas and peppermint creams and had lots of fun in the process. We are looking forward to having another day like this!!
Date: 2nd Mar 2021 @ 9:53am
This half term we have started to learn about Light in Science. We will continue this when we are all back at school next week. Thankfully some sunny days meant we could go outside and talk about the sun and how it creates our shadows of different sizes at different times of day! We talked about how it is important not to look at the sun because it can damage your eyes. We sorted different light sources and realised that the moon and mirrors only reflect light, they don't produce it. Some children even did an experiment to find out which materials were the most reflective for a new book bag design. Light enables us to see and the absence of light creates darkness!
A Super Start to Home Learning!
Date: 13th Jan 2021 @ 9:10am
Although this wasn't the start to the term we had planned, our Year 1 children have adapted fantastically. A lot of our children got straight onto our home learning platform Seesaw, and started completing the daily tasks.
This week we have been looking at finding and making number bonds in Maths. We have done lots of work on our number bonds in 10 previously in school, and we have now been using these number bonds to learn our number bonds to 20. We have recapped on using part part whole models to partition numbers and represented our number bonds on tens frames and bar models. We have explored our number bonds to 20, looking at if 6+4=10 then 16+4=20!
This week we have also looked at our goals for 2020, including what we would like to get better at at school, at home and something we want to try in the new year!
We have already seen some great examples of work, and we hope this continues! Remember Miss Kay and Mrs Webster are always here for you if you need any help, and we will check in with you at home to make sure you are all doing well.
Date: 18th Jan 2021 @ 9:04am
Well done on another successful week of home learning Year 1! You have continued to learn lots of new things remotely, by logging onto Seesaw each day, watching Miss Kay's and Mrs Webster's videos and completing our set tasks. Our Year 1 children have adapted brilliantly, and lots of you have completed some brilliant pieces of work, keep it up!
This week we have been writing descriptive sentences about our book, 'Lost and Found.' We have thought about using the 5 senses to describe what the characters might be see, hear, feel, smell and taste using picture prompts from the story. We have also been writing questions to characters, using our question words, who, what, where, when, why and how. We have had some great examples of work from our Reading into Writing lessons, and we have really enjoyed reading your work!
In Art we have continued to look at our artist, 'Henri Matisse,' and explore his artwork and the collage technique. We have learnt lots about Matisse and how he liked to work, using lots of different shapes, lots of bright colours, and cutting shapes out of paper and laying them down on a big sheet of paper, rather than drawing shapes straight onto the paper. We have created a Matisse colour wheel, and this week we began to practise the style of collage to create a picture of our own choice!
Date: 17th Jan 2021 @ 5:06pm
Star of the Week goes to Elliott this week for showing commitment and dedication to his home learning, going above and beyond in all areas. Elliott has completed all the home learning tasks as well as completing additional reading and writing activities with his mum. A huge well done! Keep up the hard work, we are very proud of you!
Holly Class Star of the Week- Toby!
Date: 15th Jan 2021 @ 2:02pm
Star of the Week goes to Toby this week for working hard every day. He is completing all of his home learning and uploading super videos of himself reading and talking and we love seeing the photos of his writing and art. Well done!
Date: 15th Jan 2021 @ 1:36pm
In Cedar, we've been exploring the ice outside.
We couldn't believe how thick some of the ice is! We rescued the rubber ducks that were stuck in the ice, cracked some icy puddles, looked at the frost on the fence, grass and leaves and look at the amazing details in some frozen spider webs.
Date: 15th Jan 2021 @ 11:39am
Well, that wasn't the start to the new term we were all hoping for! We are back to learning from home and the nursery children have adapted brilliantly! They have been doing lots of practical activities to help with their counting, phase 1 phonics, listening and attention and physical development. Well done everyone - you are amazing!
Date: 19th Jan 2021 @ 8:15am
Year 4 started to write their dilemma stories this week. The children worked really hard thinking of more interesting sentence starters using fronted adverbials. Miss Crystal and Mr Bamber can't wait to read the final pieces! Those children who are still in school during lockdown have the excitement of Forest School every Thursday. It's super cold at the moment, so the children made sure they got that fire started to give them some heat. Well done to those children in Green bubble!
Date: 15th Jan 2021 @ 9:58am
Well, it hasn't been the start to the Spring term that we had planned but that hasn't stopped Year Two learning lots of new things. Some of you have been brilliant with your remote learning on Seesaw and we want this to continue.
We have seen some marvellous examples of work, including finding features in non-chronological reports in Reading into Writing and some great problem solving involving arrays in Maths.
Remember that Miss Hooson and Mrs Fielding are here for you if you need any help and we will keep checking in with you at home to make sure things are running smoothly. Keep going Year Two, we can do this!
Date: 14th Jan 2021 @ 8:00pm
Each day the children in Willow class have logged onto SeeSaw and completed their daily tasks. They have completed a range of different tasks including number, shape, phonics, art and science. Once I have received each child's work I have ben able to give them feedback by asking additional questions or suggesting next steps. The children and parent have responded extremely well to this. It has been lovely to see how well all the children have adapted and taking home learning in their stride.
You are making me very proud. Keep it up everyone!
Date: 14th Jan 2021 @ 7:48pm
The children in Willow Class have been very busy completing their daily home learning tasks over the past two weeks. They have shown great dedication and I am very proud of them all.
In addition their daily tasks the some children have done extra tasks including science experiments, extra phonics practice, ordering objects by length and exercising regularly. I have loved seeing all your pictures and watching your videos. Keep them coming.
Keep up the hard work Willow Class.
Date: 14th Jan 2021 @ 7:37pm
Since schools in England shut after Christmas, Willow class have been busy getting to grips with their online learning at home.
They have done so well continuing their reading, writing and numbers and then uploading their work so I can look at it and help them further, offering ideas for their next steps.
Therefore, each week someone from Willow Class will be chosen as ‘Star of the Week’ for their outstanding learning they have done at home.
Well done, Jasmine!
Date: 14th Jan 2021 @ 1:07pm
Each day we have been completing our maths activities, using resources from our home learning packs or playing the games online.
Take a look at what we have done so far!
Holly Class Star of the Week- Emily!
Date: 8th Jan 2021 @ 1:00pm
Since schools in England shut after Christmas, Holly class have been busy getting to grips with their online learning at home.
They have done so well continuing their reading, writing and numbers and then uploading their work so I can look at it and help them further, offering ideas for their next steps.
Therefore, each week someone from Holly Class will be chosen as 'Star of the Week' for their outstanding learning they have done at home.
Well done, Emily!
Holly Online Learning- Winter!
Date: 14th Jan 2021 @ 12:41pm
We have been learning about Winter.
We have been listening to wintery stories, such as Jack frost and then drawing and writing about them.
Sometimes we used the Seesaw tools to do our work, sometimes we used paper and pencils but we always made sure we practiced our handwriting too.
Holly Online Learning- Phonics!
Date: 14th Jan 2021 @ 12:27pm
We have been very busy continuing learning our phonics at home.
Each day there is a phonics lesson to watch followed by reading and writing activities to complete at home.
Here is some of our work!
Date: 14th Dec 2020 @ 11:01am
Reception have been busy getting physical!
In PE they have been learning how to balance, climb and make a shape with their bodies. They worked very hard to maintain their balance and most of them managed to not topple over!
Date: 13th Jan 2021 @ 7:58pm
It's not easy being without our teachers but we are doing a great job with our home learning by listening to and following video tutorials that Mrs. Hamilton and Mrs. Rose make for us. In Computing, we have completed 2 lessons on spreadsheets - both with a video tutorial to follow. This included learning how to add data to cells, change colour and font of text as well as the size of text and cells. We then progressed to learning how to use formulae in cells to complete calculations. In today's lesson, we learned how to turn data into graphs and how to add a filter to sets of data so that we could order it smallest to largest and vice versa. We think we are doing well with our work!!
Date: 13th Jan 2021 @ 7:45pm
We're not going to let a little thing like a national lockdown get in the way of our learning!! In Reading into Writing, we have been looking at figurative language, with a focus on metaphors and personification. We have practised how to turn similes to metaphors and how to bring non-human things things to life using human action verbs. We then watched a video that showed a very angry sea and began writing metaphors to describe the sea. There were some excellent metaphors written!! For our end of unit piece of writing, we wrote a metaphor poem about an angry sea. Here are just three examples.
Date: 13th Jan 2021 @ 4:06pm
Well done to all those children who have been completing work during this first week of lockdown. We have been so impressed with the work and effort you are putting in. We know it isn't easy working from home, but the effort is really appreciated and don't forget by giving it a go and sending us your work, we can respond and help and support you! Just remember, every day you need to complete your tasks on SeeSaw, go on Reading Plus, go on Spelling Shed and go on My Maths.
Keep up the hard work Year 4!
What have you been learning at home?
Date: 13th Jan 2021 @ 2:48pm
So we've started our new National Lockdown and we're also really busy learning online through Seesaw. The children in school are trying hard to complete the tasks too, but its great to see pupils working from home on their reading, writing and maths. The sites available for the children have usernames and passwords which should be in the pupil's reading diary, we are available via email to support you all too! We know this is a very difficult time for everyone, so well done to those people who are trying their best online each day! We're all learning new skills together!
This half term our History is about the Stone Age, Science is about bones and muscles, French is about animals and PHSE covers a range of topics from Keeping Safe online to Money and being Positive. HEre are a few examples of children's home learning from this week. Let's keep trying and learning together!
Language Learning Continues in Lockdown
Date: 13th Jan 2021 @ 8:44am
Lockdown has not stopped Year 5 from continuing their French lessons. We have started our new topic, which is learning how to say the date in French. This week children in school and those at home learned the months of the year. Did you know that the French do not use capital letters for the months?
Date: 12th Jan 2021 @ 3:04pm
Today in Cedar, we have continued our learning around maps and aerial photographs.
We used an aerial photograph of our school to find features around our school. We found some of the marking on the KS2 playground, the carpark, roundabout, forest school and the MUGA.
