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Date: 7th Nov 2019 @ 4:00pm
The children and parents were Nature Detectives. Parents learnt ways to support their child's reading. writing and maths with a Nature theme. They learnt how to support learning at home and in school and each family made a scrap book to record their learning. Parents learned more about the KS1 curriculum and went on an educational visit and learnt about how we grow our fruit and vegetables.
They also made a planter out of paper, planted a seed, to grow in the ground.
Date: 6th Nov 2019 @ 7:38pm
This week we have also taken part in Bonfire night activities! Lots of the children in Nursery were very excited about seeing fireworks flying through the night sky and seeing the creative patterns as they explode into the sky with the stars. Some of our children also talked about their own experiences of Bonfire nights and fireworks. We then explored painting and collaging techniques to create firework pictures and the patterns they create when they explode. We have also been practising numbers 1-5. We counted the number of fireworks first and then matched the correct number of fireworks to the numeral. It's been another busy week!
Date: 6th Nov 2019 @ 7:16pm
This week in Nursery we have been learning about Remembrance Day and taking part in lots of Poppy themed activities! We created some particularly special Poppy art ready for our Remembrance Day ceremony next week. We use different techniques to create our painting. First we used our fingerprints and red paint for the Poppy leaves. We then had to add the black spot to the middle of our flower, being very careful not to smudge the flowers leaves! Finally we used a paint brush to add the flowers stem and the grass at the bottom of the Poppy field.
Open Morning - Come and see how we write!
Date: 5th Nov 2019 @ 12:07pm
This morning we made a Forky from Toy Story, we wrote about Halloween and created bonfire pictures. We chose these things as they are events in Autumn and a character from a film we enjoy and we wanted to write about them. We invited family members into school for the morning to help us learn. They helped us with our writing and spelling. It was great fun!
Date: 5th Nov 2019 @ 7:54pm
This week in Reception our classroom has been transformed! The home corner became a haunted house where we could dress up as our favourite characters and create our own spooky narratives. In the maths area we have been counting different halloween objects including pumpkins, ghosts, spiders, bats and skeletons and ordering number correctly up to 20. We have also been carving pumpkins and talking about different ways we have celebrated halloween with our family and friends. At the creative table we have been using our knowledge of collage to make our very own spiders. At the phonics table we have been scooping different objects our of the silly soup cauldron and writing the words out using our phonic knowledge. What a busy week we have had! Come and have a look at our learning!
The One With The Open Morning!
Date: 5th Nov 2019 @ 3:55pm
Today parents were invited in to join us for an hour and assist with our learning. To link in with Remembrance Day on Monday, we all produced poppy art. We were given an A3 sheet with a war poem on and a set of water colours. We were given 4 designs to use as a stimulus and were asked to recreate one of the pictures on the poem - or a design of our own. We produced some excellent paintings and some of them will be used to put up in the hall on Monday.
Date: 5th Nov 2019 @ 3:38pm
Children have been making Poppy art in preparation for our Remembrance day ceremony next week. Year three's objective was to make it stand out for effect. We used old newspaper articles printed in the time of the first and the second world war and cut them up to create the background. We then built a 3D poppy using tissue paper, paper shredding or different red materials to contrast. We will remember them.
Date: 4th Nov 2019 @ 8:04pm
Children in year three have been learning about the Stone Age and exactly how we find out about the past. In order to learn about human past, we have become Archaeologists. Excavation is the method that archaeologists use to extract out of the ground. The work is difficult and has to be detail-orientated since the archaeologist is destroying the very thing they are trying to study- and there are no ‘do-overs’. It is impossible for them to know exactly what is underground so they have to be very careful not to damage what’s underneath. Children have had a cookie, (the site) and needed to extract the chocolate chips (artefacts) to gain an understanding of how careful an Archeologist needs to work.
The One Where Year 6 Do Forest School!
Date: 1st Nov 2019 @ 9:55am
Wow - what a day we had during our forest school session! We started off our session by gathering the resources around the outdoor area to create a spooky structure (Halloween style). We had to work in groups to show our team-building skills and we had to use our imagination to come up with a creative design. Finally, we finished our session by sitting around the campfire fire - we drank delicious hot chocolate and tested out our singing skills as we sang some fun campfire songs. We thoroughly enjoyed our session and we can't wait to see what is in store for us in our next session!
The One Where Year 6 Ride Their Bikes!
Date: 31st Oct 2019 @ 8:23am
Congratulations to the Year 6 children who took part in a 2-day Bikeability course - they all passed with flying colours. All children can now ride their bike safely using what they have learned. Well done Year 6!
Date: 30th Oct 2019 @ 7:15pm
Welcome back everyone! We have enjoyed hearing about all the exciting things you have done during half term. We have had a spectacularly spooky first week back! We arrived into Nursery to find our home corner had been taken over by a witch, who had turned it into a 'Witches Kitchen.' She has been making potions and leaving us secret messages on ghost paper! We had to use special torches to read the message she had left us! We have also been decorating pumpkins, witches and monsters. We have used different shapes for the different body parts on our 'shape monsters,' looking at the properties and how to recognise the shapes we used. 'Whats in the Witches Kitchen', 'Room on the Broom' and 'Five Little Monsters,' have been our stories this week and we have been looking at rhyming Halloween songs and rhymes. Try singing some of these songs together at home! Happy Halloween!
Date: 30th Oct 2019 @ 10:28am
To launch our ‘Sensational Seasons’ topic we explored the physical effects of autumn. We went on an autumn treasure hunt and found lots of wonderful natural items such as leaves,twigs and pinecones and used these natural items to make our own autumn art. We explored the colours of the leaves and mixed paint to make our own autumn colours then painted leaves to create an autumn tree for our classroom. We examined the texture of leaves and bark through wax rubbing which created a range of interesting patterns. We looked at foods which are harvested during autumn and designed our own pumpkins.
Date: 29th Oct 2019 @ 8:58am
Autumn 2 Topic Overview 2019/20
Date: 29th Oct 2019 @ 8:48am
Date: 28th Oct 2019 @ 10:23pm
It was a great return to school, or should we say journey back in time, for our children. Our drivers for our non-core subjects this half-term are history, science and art. So, for our 'WOW' we combined the three to create our own costumes and to transform into Stone Age palaeontologists. The children have begun their next journey by digging for rocks and fossils! As well as a brief introduction into what we know as the beginning of man.
Date: 28th Oct 2019 @ 3:36pm
To link in with our unit on 'Volcanoes and Mountains', today we had to build and 'erupt' our own volcanoes. We were split up into groups where we had to use the resources (cardboard, plastic bottles, PVA glue, paint and strips of newspaper) to shape a volcano made from paper mache. Once we had built our volcanoes, we then headed outside where we used white vinegar, bicarbonate soda and red food colouring to 'erupt' them. We had a great morning during our WOW session and we can't wait to learn more about volcanoes and mountains.
Autumn 2 Topic Overview 2019/20
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Autumn 2 Topic Overview 2019/20
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Autumn 2 Topic Overview 2019/20
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