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Year 4 - Ancient Egyptian Dancing
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 2:43pm
Today we looked at hieroglyphs and used our bodies to represent the symbols.
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 12:56pm
Take a look at our amazong World Book Day costumes! We all dressed as our favourite characters today and shred our reasons for picking our characters. We joined a football quiz, joined in a great book Kahoot, read our reading books and finally we created our own story boards.
We were also lucky enough to have our very own book swap! We brought in a book that we had read and swapped it for one we were yet to explore!
What a brilliant day of books!
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 11:58am
WOW!! What a great day so far for World Book Day. A great effort by all!! We did a live lesson, wrote down what we came as, went to The Attic and enjoyed talking about the characters we had come to school as.
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 11:45am
What a World Book Day this has been! Year 6 have really gone above and beyond this year with their character costumes. From Harry Potter to Dr. Frankenstein, the variety has been really impressive. We have also taken part in a book and football quiz with schools around the country as well as a Book Banter session, where we discussed fun facts we have learned from non-fiction books.
Take a look at some of our costumes!
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 11:23am
We have all been looking forward to celebrating World Book Day! Alongside our assembly with Mrs Hamilton, we also completed word searches, designed reading bookmarks and shared our favourite stories/characters. We all enjoyed coming to school as our favourite book character and celebrating our love of reading.
Date: 6th Mar 2024 @ 9:47pm
We have read two super stories based around zoo animals "Poo in the Zoo" and "Dear Zoo". The children have been practsing their counting by feeding the animals the correct number of scoops of food, and making different length giraffe necks out of cubes. We have also explored patterns on zoo animals and painted black and orange stripes for a tiger.
Date: 5th Mar 2024 @ 7:17pm
This half term our Reading into Writing journey is all about instructions. Today, alongside reading and identifying imperative verbs to turn sentences into a command or instruction, we played an imperative verb game to follow imperative verbs. We worked collaboratively to practise being bossy and giving bossy commands and instructions to our partner. We were all able to identify the imperative verbs and create bossy sentences both orally and written down.
Date: 5th Mar 2024 @ 7:11pm
To explore our question for this lesson, ‘what is the best habitat for an animal?’ we visited our forest school area. We recalled what we already learnt about woodland habitats…
'They are covered by trees’
‘It is shady on the ground’
‘Lots of plants and animals live there’
We also recapped the names of animals and where in the woodland they might be found. Finally we looked specifically at animals that we might find on the woodland floor before going out into the forest school area to make observations to answer our key question.
We found lots of different mini beasts such as slugs, snails, wood lice, beetles and spiders. We orally discussed why this is the best habitat for each animal using the STEM sentence ‘I think it is the best habitat because …’
Date: 5th Mar 2024 @ 10:26am
As part of our DT unit, Shell Structures, we have looked at nets. We carouselled around the room completing a series of activites. These included usingmagnet shapes to make shell structures, deconstructing 3D shapes, cutting and folding nets and finally we made nets to replicate real life objects! We even linked it to History and made some historical landmarks!
Acorns - Walking Through the Jungle
Date: 4th Mar 2024 @ 4:21pm
This week Acorns have had lots of fun exploring and learning about the jungle and wild animals. Our sensory story is Walking through the Jungle, and we have enjoyed listening to the animal noises, using animal puppets and playing with the different animals in out jungle themed tuff tray. We have also incorporated the jungle into our maths and art sessions. We really enjoyed animal printing with sponges and paints and creating our very own lions and snakes.
Date: 1st Mar 2024 @ 2:32pm
Our new librararians have been appointed!📚
They recently visited The Attic for the first time and they were blown away!😮 Not only did they get to explore the magical world of books, but they also had the chance to chat about their new role and how they can make our school library even better!🙌🏼 What's even more exciting is that the National Literacy Trust in Blackpool, in partnership with World of Stories, has generously donated some new books to our library!📖
#NewLibrarians #WorldOfStories #BookLovers #SchoolLibraryGoals
Date: 29th Feb 2024 @ 10:30pm
The children have been very busy listening to superhero stories and even getting in to a few rescue missions themselves! They have made their own masks and designed a cape. The masks came in very handy as they role played superhero missions outside. We also looked at the "s" sound in phonics and found other objects that began with a "s". The children then created their own super "S".
Date: 29th Feb 2024 @ 10:12pm
Nursery never run out of ways to have fun outdside. Amongst all the fun, there is a lot of learning going on! This week, the slide has created lots of learning opportunites - all led by the children. They worked together to move a crate to use as an extra step and then moved the giant spinning top to the bottom of the slide. The chidlren then discovered it was great fun to slide down the slide and land in the spinning top! They children have also been exploring colours and colour mixing all through painting a large cardboard box!
Date: 29th Feb 2024 @ 4:52pm
Today, Year Two enjoyed their first forest school session of the spring term. We begun by discussing how the season has changed from Autumn to Winter and what has changed in the outside areas; we then went on a hunt around the garden to find signs that spring is nearly here! Next we made friendship bracelets, working well together to twist the materials tightly and tie a knot so we could wear them before we had a team race to see who was the best at tying knots in string. Finally, we explored shelters and used the parachute to protect us from the cold before making our own dens in the garden to protect a teddybear.
Date: 29th Feb 2024 @ 4:00pm
This week in History, we used our History, Geography and oracy skills. We started by locating Egypt and England on a world map and then zoomed in on Europe and North Africa to see how far away Egypt is. Next, we were given a map of Egypt and in groups we had to discuss and decide where we think we would have been best to build the pyramids and Pharaoh tombs. We came up with some sentence starters to support our discussions. We decided that near the River Nile was the best option because of the supply of water for building and living whilst building the tombs/pyramids.
Reception The Tiger who came to tea
Date: 29th Feb 2024 @ 11:38am
This week the children have been reading the story 'The Tiger who came to tea". They have enjoyed taking part in lots of different activities themed around the book including; collaging and painting tigers, acting out the story in the home corner, retelling the storying orally using the props and puppets, solving different tiger theme maths problems and writing sentences about the story. What a busy week we have had!
Date: 29th Feb 2024 @ 11:16am
The children in Reception were invited to bring their favourite teddy bear into school. As a class we talked about our teddies, what they were called. what they looked like and why they were special to us. We discussed how teddy bears have changed over time, comparing teddy bear in the past to teddy bears in the present day. Mrs Clark showed us her mum's teddy bear which was sixty years old. We then sorted the different pictures of teddy bears into past and present.
"Teddy bears now are colourful" Mathew
"Teddy bears in the past are made from brown material" Oliver
"You can get lots of different characters" Isabelle
""Present means it is today" Summer
"The past mean it has already happened" Isla
"Mrs Clark's teddy was made a long time ago" Esmai
Date: 29th Feb 2024 @ 10:59am
This week the children in Reception have been making pancakes. We talked about the tradition of pancake day how some people decide to give something up, during the Christain period of Lent. The children then enjoyed following a recipe to make and then eat their own pancakes. When we returned to the classroom sequenced the pictures correctly and wrote our own insgtructions.
"You have to mix the eggs, milk and flour with a whisk" Alaiya
"Cook it in a frying pan" Isla
"The pancakes were yummy. I liked the syrup best" Isabelle.
Date: 29th Feb 2024 @ 8:42am
This week pupils investigated the causes and effects of friction. We carried out an investigation by measuring the force needed to move a mass of 1kg on different surfaces. We discovered that smooth surfaces created less friction and rough surfaces created more friction. A higher mass will also increase the amount of friction.
Date: 29th Feb 2024 @ 8:29am
This week our PE journey into 'Net and Wall Games' continued, with Jordan, our PE coach. Pupils practised the 'ready position' and then learned the techniques required to play forehand and backhand ground strokes. Pupils tested their reactions in small games, which meant using the skills they had learned in the lesson.
Date: 29th Feb 2024 @ 8:24am
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Date: 28th Feb 2024 @ 8:46pm
Today in Design and Technology we practised the skill of accurately drawing out shapes. We carefully used a ruler to measure out different shapes in centimetres and we then carefully cut them out. We will apply this skill to mark out different parts of our moving vehicles, such as doors and windows.
Date: 28th Feb 2024 @ 1:06pm
In music, Year 3 have been looking at playing, improvising and composing using the glockenspiels. The children planned out their compositions using beats and used the notes GABCD in their compositions.
Date: 27th Feb 2024 @ 12:01pm
Last half term, the children in Year 3 explored healthy and varied diets. We designed and created wraps and pittas thinking about colour, taste and if it had a selection from the eat well guide.
Date: 27th Feb 2024 @ 11:58am
Before half term, the children explore their RSE learning. The children explored different body types, the importance of personal space and different types of families.
