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Date: 25th Nov 2024 @ 9:07pm
Today, we were joined by some parents for our Maths lesson. We completed a problem solving activity using our knowledge of number bonds to 10 to form a big triangle. We were then challenged to create our own puzzle using number bonds to 20 for a friend to complete. Thank you to the parents who joined us, it was lovely showcasing our learning with you.
Date: 25th Nov 2024 @ 6:16pm
Today Year 1 enjoyed together time with our parents and carers. We had a great time showing them around our classrooms, completing our mini me tasks and using Seesaw to evidence our learning. We showed them everything we had been learning about recently and introduced some of our new 'Stickman' related activities.
Date: 25th Nov 2024 @ 11:54am
We started this week by welcoming the children's parents and carers into school. The children had a wonderful time showing them all the different things we have been learning over the past few weeks.
Date: 25th Nov 2024 @ 10:33am
We started this week by welcoming Parents and Carers into class. This was a wonderful opportunity for Year 5 to demonstrate their coding skills. Together with a partner and their adults, the children were tasked with coding a Pong-style computer game. Children were able to code, debug and then play their completed game. Thank you to all those parents and carers who were able to join us. We look forward to seeing you again at other Together Time sessions later in the school year!
Date: 22nd Nov 2024 @ 2:32pm
This half term Year 6 have been learning all about French verbs and how to conjugate them. We have learned that verbs have different endings depending on the personal pronoun being used. We have identified stems and endings, learned the endings to regular ER, IR and RE verbs and began to look at some of the more common irregular verbs, which do not follow the pattern.
Date: 22nd Nov 2024 @ 10:56am
This week Acorns have been exploring night and day. We have enjoyed developing our understanding through songs and rhymes and visuals, exploring what we do at night and during the day. Some of us made choices about what we would like to do during the day.
Reception Visit Salisbury Woods
Date: 22nd Nov 2024 @ 10:54am
This week Reception have been on their first class trip to Salisbury Woods. We enjoyed taking part in a autumn walk through the wood looking for different signs of autumn. We found different colouredleaves, acorns, pinecorns and. conkers. We even maged to sport some squirrels and a robin.
"In autumn the leaves change colour" Harry
"The leaves fall off the trees" Emily
"I've found a conker and acorn" Dennie
"The squirrels are running up the threes" AuroraRec
Date: 22nd Nov 2024 @ 10:49am
This week was the start of Switch- Off Week!
It was launched on Monday with an assembly reminding children of the of how to save electricity and the reasons why.
The Eco Warriors read the electricity meter on Monday and they will be monitoring the number of lights and plugs that are switched off around school.
"We need to switch off electricity to save money- electriciry is expensive" Hannah- May.
"I will make sure we don't boil the kettle with too much water in it" Lyra- Rose.
"I will switch off my Play Station when I've finished with it" Logan
Acorns - we’re going on a leaf hunt
Date: 22nd Nov 2024 @ 10:39am
This week Acorns have been reading "We're going on a leaf hunt" for our class story. Acorns went on their very own leaf hunt around our forest school area. We had lots of fun looking through our magnifying glasses, looking for different coloured leaves. We even found the Gruffalo hiding in the bushes!!
Eco- A Micro Wood on Grange Park.
Date: 22nd Nov 2024 @ 10:16am
This week, the Eco Warriors were invited to take part in planting trees to create a micro wood on Grange Park.
They planted various different young trees with other local schools and members of the community.
Jenni from Treescape, Lancashire explained how the micro wood was for everyone in the community to enjoy over the years. and the Eco Warriors were excited to discover that some of the trees planted were the same as the names of our classes in school, such as Oak and Hawthorn.
"I will come here with my mum and look at how they have grown" Lyra- Rose.
"I have an oak tree in my garden- it grows acorns" Lacey
"I planted about twenty five trees this morning and then I lost count. It was really good planting them near our school" Damien.
" I hope that hedgehogs will find a home in the woods" Hannah- May.
Date: 21st Nov 2024 @ 2:42pm
The children loved exporing a special bag filled with Autumnal objects this week. They selected an object and then we discussed what it looked, felt and smelt like. The children came up with some fabulous words to describe the objects including spiky, crunchy and smooth. They also had to listen really carefully to their friends and take on board their ideas.
Date: 21st Nov 2024 @ 2:33pm
This week nursery have been talking about the changes we can see outside in the Autumn. We have been looking at different coloured leaves and talked about why they change colour and have explored these colours through painting. The children have had lots of opportunites to look at autumnal objects and have also created some fabulous leaf people.
Year 3- What is the role of the skeleton?
Date: 21st Nov 2024 @ 1:41pm
As part of our Science learning, we were answering the question what is the role of a skeleton? To do this we looked at a range of animal and human skeletons and made comparisons between them. The children discussed the size, shape, length, width and amount of bones. The children enjoyed discussing the similarities and differences between them. We then went on to discuss why the skeleton is important and discussed it was needed for movement, protection and support. We noted that bones such as the skull and ribs were for protection.
Date: 21st Nov 2024 @ 10:33am
Over the last few weeks, we been looking at the 'Rocking Romans'. We have listened and sang along to the song, “Oh, the strata of society” and performed the song "Boudicca" using percussion instruments. The children reneacted the sounds of gallopping horses and soldiers marching through Roman towns.
Date: 21st Nov 2024 @ 9:31am
In Year Three, the children have music lesson by a peripatetic teacher focusing on Samba music. The children enjoy playing a range of instruments and creating and playing musical rhythms and patterns.
Date: 21st Nov 2024 @ 7:38am
Today we started our 3D modelling unit using the website Tinkercad. Our first lesson was an opportunity to get to know how to add shapes to the workspace and how to change the size, shape, colour and position of a range ofshapes. We worked through a selectionof tutorial tasks to prepare for the next few sessions.
Date: 20th Nov 2024 @ 6:43pm
Over the past few weeks, Year 1 have been reading, creating and writing about 'Leaf Man.' This story involves using lots of imagination to spot the leaf characters in the pictures and think about where they are going! After reading the story, we printed our own leaf man, found him in our forest school area and completed lots of different writing activties relating to the story.
Date: 20th Nov 2024 @ 6:36pm
Year 1 enjoyed using pastels to create our poppy drawings. We talked about the different shapes we needed to use, the colours on a poppy and how to use pastels effectively.
Date: 20th Nov 2024 @ 6:21pm
As part of our Geography unit, The UK, this week we have explored Human Geography. This is how humans interact with their environment and how they use the Earth's resources. The children produced some wonderful double page spreads all about the different aspects of Human Geography.
Date: 20th Nov 2024 @ 4:49pm
Year 2- Investigating the trenches from WWI
Date: 20th Nov 2024 @ 4:46pm
Today, we used the Chromebooks to improve our digital literacy skills to label what life was like in the trenches. We used our previous knowledge and new learning to think about items in a trench, how soldiers spent their time and what the conditions were like.
Year 6 - Investigating Voltage
Date: 20th Nov 2024 @ 4:12pm
We had a great Science lesson this week investigating the effect on a bulb of adding more cells to the circuit. We learned that the greater the number of cells, the brighter the bulb.
Year 2- Conducting a cracking experiment!
Date: 19th Nov 2024 @ 3:49pm
Today, we conducted an experiment to test the investigation to find out 'which material best protects an egg?' We wrapped a small egg in different materials of the same size and dropped it from a 1m height. We made sure we used the same amount of materials, dropped the egg from the same height and dropped it onto the same surface. We found the plastic tub best protected the egg from a fall as nothing happened to the egg where as the other materials cracked or completely smashed the egg.
Date: 19th Nov 2024 @ 3:28pm
Today we were introduce to the focus of our 'Storytelling through drawing' unit with the poem 'A Day in Autumn'. We will look at the poem in more detail in the weeks to come, but this week the focus was autumnal colours. We went down to EYFS and hunted for some leave, twigs etc which would show good autumnal colours. Then back in class, we had a go at recreating some of the colours in our sketchbooks.
Year 5 - Seperating Solids and Liquids
Date: 19th Nov 2024 @ 2:13pm
In this lesson we used our knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be separated, including through filtering, sieving and evaporating. We conducted an experiment to investigate whether the mass of sand was affected when filtered. We had to analyse a solution and decide how best to separate the component parts. From the results of this lesson we were able to explain how a solution is formed.
