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Year 4 - WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre
Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 7:30pm
WOW! What a great day at WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre. The weather was kind to us and held off for most of the day. We explored the Wetland Centre and saw lots of different animals and found out about their habitats and how their bodies are adapted to their environment. WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre are trying to tackle climate change, protect wildlife and tackle flooding. It was great to see everything they are doing to help our environment and the wildlife around us.
Year 2- Final Forest School Session
Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 3:55pm
Today, Year Two, despite the soggy weather, enjoyed their final forest school session of the year. We went and explored the pond area thinking about which animals would be enjoying the wet, muddy weather and went to see if we could find any- some of us even spotted some frogspawn in the pond. Then we thought about the lifecycle of a frog and played a game of rock, paper, scissors to grow throughout the lifecycle of a frog from frogspawn to an adult frog- every time we won a game of rock, paper, scissors we could progress a step in the lifecycle. Finally, after some of us practiced creating sparks using a fire lighter, we toasted fruit bread on the fire and enjoyed eating it around the fire as a warm treat to end the session.
Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 3:50pm
Yesterday, Year Two had a visit from the School Nursing team who taught us all about basic hygiene. We started the session by talking about the different kinds of germs that live on our body and how they can make us poorly. Then, Millie read us a story called 'Why Wash?' and we discussed all the areas of our body that we should be washing regularly all the way from our hair to our toes thinking about what to use and why it is important. We finished by demonstrating how germs are spread as some people spread their germs (glitter) around the classroom by shaking hands with their friends and leaving parts on their friends hands before discussing the 20 second rule to handwashing.
Year 3- Finding features in poems!
Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 2:56pm
In Reading into Writing we have begun our new journey of poems. We have created a shared Success Criteria of the features and have identified features in a range of poems.
Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 2:52pm
In Reading into Writing we have begun writing narratives. We have begun with a short story based on the silent video 'Rock, Paper, Scissors.' Our task was to write the conversations that we thought would occur between the three main characters. We also added description throughout our stories to bring both characters and settings to life.
Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 2:50pm
As part of our reading into writing journey, we have worked collaboratively to edit and improve our writing. Working with a partner encourages children to find errors and also to discuss ideas to improve their writing.
Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 2:48pm
In D.T we have been looking at making shell structures. We have been making shell structures as Easter gifts and have been using CAD to design our products.
Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 2:48pm
This week we started our statistics unit. After a recap on all statistics covered in Years 3 - 5, we moved on to look at solving problems using line graphs. Today we have been looking at infiormation displayed on dual bar charts.
Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 12:22pm
In todays lesson we explored adverbs to tell us how something is done. We learnt that an adverb gives extra information about the verb. As a class, we looked at how adverbs are formed and that most are made by adding the suffix ‘ly’ onto the end of the word, e.g. kind + ly = kindly. We explored adverbs that describe how an action is happening and chose adverbs to orally use in a sentence. As our independent task, we then matched a range of verbs to the correct picture, before choosing an adverb to describe the action. We then put some of these into our own sentences on whiteboards. Finally, we completed a quiz to identify and recognise adverbs in written sentences.
Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 11:26am
Today we continued to explore the key question ‘what is the best habitat for an animal?’ We recapped on the key habitats we have learnt about this half term and the four things each habitat provides for an animal; food, water, shelter and space. We looked at a number of different habitats and discussed which animals belonged there and which animals had been placed in the wrong habitat and why. We then worked independently to create our own habitat diorama for a chosen animal. We used drawing to create our chosen habitat, orally explaining why our animal lives in this habitat and what it provides for them.
‘I created an ocean habitat for the clownfish – ocean habitats are very wet and very big! The ocean habitat is the biggest habitat’
‘Camels live in the dry desert habitat. They store fat in their humps so they can survive without lots of food. They have flat feet so they don’t sink in the sand.’
Date: 13th Mar 2024 @ 12:25pm
The week we have been reading the story 'Whatever Next' . It is a story about a little bear who makes his own rocket and travels to the Moon for a picnic. The children have been very busy completeing lots of different activities relating to the story including retelling it at the storytelling table, making junk model rockets, collaging and painting rockets, space theme wrtiing activities, using 2D shapes to make rockets naming their propeties and sequencing the story. The children have worked very hard.
Date: 13th Mar 2024 @ 12:07pm
In Reception we have been learning about space. As part of our learning the children have been using a range of different recycled boxes, tubes and materials to create their own model rockets. They had to think very carefully about the different matierals they were using looking at shape and size and decide the best way to fix and join them together. The children had some brilliant ideas and used thei problem solving skills when they were faced with challenges. Have a look at some of the rockets they made.
Date: 12th Mar 2024 @ 12:24pm
Some of the children have been enjoying taking part in Ballet Club on a Tuesday after school. We have been learning the importance of stretching and warming our bodies up so we down get injured. We talked about keeping our legs and arms straight and pointing our toes. We are learning the different ballet positions including first, second and third position and even learnt how to do a demi-plie.
Date: 12th Mar 2024 @ 10:24am
What a great session this morning. We virtually met with five vounteers who all told us about their jobs in the art industry. We had a variety of virtual visitors from a tattoo artist, to a photographer to a painting conservator.
Year 4 - Who built the pyramids?
Date: 12th Mar 2024 @ 9:09am
Who built the pyramids? A lot of people believed that it was slaves who built the pyramids. We investigated whether that is true or not! Then we used our museum loan boxes to create a tomb and explore artefacts.
Date: 11th Mar 2024 @ 1:01pm
We visited Aspire as part of our Light topic in Science. We looked at what white light is made up of and used a light box to try to create our own rainbows. We then learnt about the primary colours of light. We explored what happens when we shine these colours onto objects. Finally, we mixed the primary colours of light to create white light.
World Book Day 2024 - Hawthorn
Date: 10th Mar 2024 @ 10:45am
What a day we had for World Book Day in Hawthorn. We had some fantastic outfits and even two T-Rex's who struggled to fit through any doors in school! A fantastic effort by all and a great day.
Date: 8th Mar 2024 @ 11:10am
We took part in Eco Schools World Book Day Book Swap. We encouraged our families to donate books which they no longer use. To eliminate waste and save them going to landfill, we collected the books and organised a book swap day! All of the children were then able to choose a free book to take and keep. Everyone was delighted with their ‘new’ books.
Date: 8th Mar 2024 @ 10:36am
What an exciting day we all had!
All the children looked fantastic dressing up as their favourite book characters. To celebrate reading, we read our favourite books in the Reading Den and Book Nook and drew a picture of ourselves in our costumes.
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 9:29pm
Our second Forest School session took place on World Book Day, so our focus was on stories and characters. We shared the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears before exploring the Forest School area, using our imagination to create things for characters from stories we have read. Some of the items we created included a house for Goldilocks, a comfy bed for Goldilocks to sleep in, a chocloate cake from Willy Wonka's factory and Harry Potter's wand.
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 9:04pm
What a fantastic day we have had for World Book Day 2024. All of the children made such an effort with their costumes and everyone looked amazing. To celebrate reading we drew our favourite character and talked about why we liked them. We virtually interviewed some of our favourite characters including George from George's Marvellous Medicine, Harry Potter, The Twits and The Cat in the Hat. We also participated in a class book swap and we can't wait to start reading our new titles!
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go - Dr Seuss
Nursery Celebrate World Book Day
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 9:00pm
Wnat a fabulous World Book Day! Nursery was full of fantastic book characters including the little boy from "How to Catch a Star", Goldilocks, Paddington Bear, Where's Wally and even Zog the dragon! The children celebrated the day by making book marks, drawing a picture of their book character and sharing different books with their friends and teachers. What an amazing day.
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 7:45pm
Acorns welcomed the 3 little pigs, the big bad wolf, the Gruffalo and Mary Poppins into class today, celebrating World Book Day. We had a great time sharing stories and enjoying different activities based around our stories. We especially liked building a brick house and blowing it down!!
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 7:32pm
Acorns welcomed the 3 little pigs, the big bad wolf, the Gruffalo and Mary Poppins into class today, celebrating World Book Day. We had a great time sharing stories and enjoying different activities based around our stories. We especially liked building a brick house and blowing it down!!
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 4:47pm
What a day we had for World Book Day in Rowan! We took part in a live quiz, we spoke about the outfits we had chosen and some children even swapped books with eachother. A great effort by all on some fantastic outfits.
