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Year 6 - Opinions about school subjects in French
Date: 18th Apr 2024 @ 2:50pm
Year 6 continued their unit based on school subjects. After learning how to tell the time in French to the nearest hour, the children went on to create longer sentences which involved saying what day and time they study a particular subject. They also completed a listening activity which focused on children's opinions about school subjects. Everyone did really well.
Date: 18th Apr 2024 @ 2:50pm
For our No Pen Morning, we thought about how we could use our oracy skills to complete our Reading into Writing and Maths lessons. In Reading into Writing we were completing our GPS lesson focusing on subheadings. The children ordered a text based on subheadings, created their own headings and matched topics to the headings. In Maths, we looked at adding fractions. The children created a tarsia using our knowledge of adding numerators.
Date: 18th Apr 2024 @ 2:45pm
Today we explored the parts of plants. We dissected the plants to examine the parts. We used magnifying glasses to take a closer look. We found roots, buds, flowers, leaves and stems. We then looked at the roles of these parts.
Date: 18th Apr 2024 @ 1:56pm
Year 4 have had a great time during no pen morning. In Reading into Writing, we started our next journey which to write a poem based on rivers. We looked at a range of different poems and discussed common features such as alliteration, personification and rhyming.
In Maths, we learnt how to represent hundredths as fractions. Firstly, we use base ten blocks to understand how to represent hundredths as fractions. Then, we used our digital literacy skills to use rekenrek on our chromebooks. We discussed how many beads were on each side of the rekenrek and talked about how to represent each of the sides as a fraction.
Date: 17th Apr 2024 @ 3:18pm
This morning the children in Reception enjoyed going on a spring walk around the school grounds including; out outdoor garden, forest school and the woodland area outside year four. The children spotted blosoom on trees, flowers growing like tulips and dafodills, leaf buds and even a birds nest.
"Blossom grows on trees in spring" Kisha
"Birds make nests and lay eggs" Hunter
The leaves will grow soon" Summer
"It gets warmer in spring" Esmai
"I founds a ladybird and a butterfly" Sahiti
Date: 17th Apr 2024 @ 7:24am
Yesterday, Year Two completed no pen morning alongside the rest of the School. In Reading into Writing, we developed our digital literacy skills using the Chromebooks to read a teacher model and find all the different features on SeeSaw. In Maths, we completed a cutting and sticking activity to help us with recognising equal or unequal parts in a range of pictorial representations to begin our new fractions unit.
Date: 16th Apr 2024 @ 5:56pm
Today Year 1 enjoyed No Pen Day! We began our Science lesson by identifying the different parts of a tree, including the roots, trunk, bark, branches, leaves and crown. We then labelled these parts on a tree independently, either using the text tool on Seesaw or reading the parts and matching them to the correct label.
We then learnt what the words deciduous and evergreen meant. We looked at examples of each and discussed what we noticed about the different leaves. We learnt that evergreen leaves are usually thicker, leathery and waxier than the leaves of deciduous trees. We felt some examples from different trees, including holly, laurel and hazel. We then completed an evergreen and deciduous tree sort.
Date: 16th Apr 2024 @ 8:39am
More practise with close questions and laying out branching databases. We realised they get their name from an upside down tree!
Date: 15th Apr 2024 @ 9:23pm
Date: 15th Apr 2024 @ 9:20pm
This week the children in Reception have been learning about how to keep ourselves healthy. We talked about having a healthy diet, identifying specific foods that are healthy and others that we should just have as a treat. We talked about the imporantce of getting plently of sleeps and keeping active through exercise. We discussed how many times we should brush our teeth each day and why this is important. Throughout the week we completed lots of different tasks including; making a healthy fruit kebab snack, sorting different foods into healthy choices and occassional treats, practised washing out hands properly, practising brushing our false teeth and exercising in out outdoor area.
"You need to get lotsof sleep because that's when you grow" Oliver
"Brush your teeth in the moring and at hight" Sahiti
"Sugar makes your teeth rot away and makes them sore " Elisha
"You need to go to the dentist so they can check them" Esmai
"Chocolate is a treat" Thomas
"You should have 5 fruit and vegetable a day" Isla
"Exercise make you strong" Levi
Have a look at some of our learning.
Year 6 - Computing: 3D modelling
Date: 15th Apr 2024 @ 7:39pm
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: 15th Apr 2024 @ 5:55pm
This half term our writing is based around the story 'Zog.' Today we wrote sentences about the main character, using adjectives to describe his main features and linking our Boundary characteristics to Zogs actions at different parts of the story.
Date: 15th Apr 2024 @ 10:57am
Acorns have had a great week exploring space and shape. Our story of the week, Whatever Next, saw us travelling into space. We enjoyed the sensory experience of boxes as a rocket and a collander for a helmet. For maths, we explored shapes and made colourful rockets using lots of different shapes. We used a space theme to support our writing and mark making skills. What a busy week.
Date: 12th Apr 2024 @ 2:21pm
Every week, during Always Time, we have a different theme. This week, we did Origami and we loved it! We listened to calming music and coloured our creations in afterwards too.
Date: 12th Apr 2024 @ 12:50pm
This half-term our science unit is about 'All living things and their Habitats'. Our journey started with exploring the lifecycle and reproductive process of flowering plants. In this lesson, pupils dissected a daffodil to find the different parts of the flower, such as the sepal, style and anther.
Year 3- To grow or not to grow? That is the question!
Date: 11th Apr 2024 @ 2:55pm
In Year 3, we have started our new Science topic of plants today and spent the lesson planning an experiment. We were planning how liquids can affect plant growth. The children set up pots with seed in and will measure over time the growth rate. In time we will see how coke, water, plant food, juice or no liquid will make the plants grow!
Date: 11th Apr 2024 @ 2:47pm
In this lesson we started out new topic of World War Two. The children began by understanding where it fit into history by exploring timelines and ordered key events. We then went on to explore the key events that led up to the war happening. After that we discussed how Britain tried to appease Germany and considered the for and against arguments for appeasement.
Date: 11th Apr 2024 @ 12:18pm
This term, Nursery are going to be learning about growth and chnage, To start us off we have be been reading two stories "Sam Plants a Sunflower" and "Jasper's Beanstalk". In both stories the characters plant and a seed and take care of it until they grow big and storng. All the children planted a sunflower seed and now we have to take good care of them all so they can grow.
Nursery Get a Little Bit Muddy!
Date: 11th Apr 2024 @ 11:30am
Nursery had a very muddy forest school experience! It was a very rainy day but that didn't stop us having lots of fun! We hunted for food for the Very Hungry Caterpillar, made a home home for a caterpillar and splashed and squelched in the muddy puddles!
Date: 10th Apr 2024 @ 3:38pm
Today we learnt how to measure in centimetres. We learnt how to line the 0 on the ruler with the edge of the object we were measuring and to read across the ruler to find the length of the object. We showed lots of determination to master accurate measing in centimetres.
Date: 10th Apr 2024 @ 8:57am
After spending time exploring a variety of existing shell structures, looked at creating nets and CAD, it was finally time to make our final products. We made our very own Easter themes boxes to hold a chocolate surprise. We had to carefully use a hot glue gun and measure accurately to ensure that they folded together correctly. We also used moulds to create different chocolate shapes to go inside, proving our designs were fit for purpose!
Year 4- Asking Yes/No Questions
Date: 9th Apr 2024 @ 6:34pm
This half term, Year 4 have started their new computing topic which is themed around collecting and presenting data. For our first lesson, we discussed the different between an open-ended question and a yes/no question. We then played a game where our partner picked an everyday classroom object and we had to guess what the object was using yes/no questions. Finally, we grouped objects based on their attributes such as their colour, size and material.
Date: 9th Apr 2024 @ 3:49pm
Today we started our South America unit in Geography and answer the key question Where is The Amazon? We used atlas to locate the countries of South America then located The Amazon rainforest and The Amazon River and the countries they are in.
Date: 9th Apr 2024 @ 3:44pm
Today, we planted sunflower seeds, broad beans and cress seeds so we can observe them over time and see how they grow and change. We are exploring what a bean needs to germinate, what conditions a sunflower need to grow and how sunlight affects the growth of cress. After we had planted them we made predictions as to what we think will happen and look forward to observing them over the next few weeks to see what happens.
Eco- Reception welcomes a new arrival
Date: 8th Apr 2024 @ 10:22pm
Before the Easter holidays, the children discovered a birds nest in our bushes in the outside area. They decided that they needed to be very quiet and not play near it so the eggs could hatch and the bird felt safe.
Today, we went to check if anything had happened and we could not believe that there were two baby birds huddled together in the nest. Once again, we need to stay away and keep quiet until the babies have flown the nest.
"Baby birds hatch out of eggs" Mathew.
"Birds live in a nest and keep their eggs in a nest" Lucy.
"Birds are scared of humans ...we must be quiet and not scare them" Esme.
