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Acorns - Chinese New Year Celebrations
Date: 22nd Feb 2024 @ 4:12pm
This week Acorns have been exploring Chinese New Year. We have enjoyed exploring different artificats relating to the Chinese New year through our Bucket activities and tuff trays. We have enjoyed beating the drums to chinese music and watching the dragon dance before experiencing our own dragon dance. We had lots of fun following the dragon around and running in and out of its body when it came to class.
Date: 22nd Feb 2024 @ 2:47pm
In this lesson we began to explore the features of a fable. The children used the success criteria made in previous lessons to identify a range of features.
Year 2- Exploring Moving Vehicles
Date: 22nd Feb 2024 @ 2:04pm
This week, we have begun our Design Technology unit 'Mechanisms- Moving Vehilces'. We started by exploring a variety of moving vehicles and discussed how they move. We learnt that the wheels are connected by an axle which allows the cars wheels to move freely at the same time. We will use this knowledge to help us when building our own car.
Reception National Storytellying Week
Date: 22nd Feb 2024 @ 10:22am
During National Storytelling Week Reception had a visitor from the National Literacy Trust who brought lots of loves stories to share with the children. We enjoyed going up to our school library 'The Attic' to listen to the stories and then use the puppets to retell tell them in our own words. What a lovely time everyone had.
Year 4 - Discovering Ancient Egypt
Date: 21st Feb 2024 @ 2:30pm
We started to learn about Ancient Egypt this week. Firstly, we located where Ancient Egypt was on a chronological timeline. Then, we completed an information run around the classroom to gather as much information about Ancient Egypt as possible. At the end of the lesson we listened to a Now, Press, Play activity.
Date: 20th Feb 2024 @ 1:22pm
"What will melt the ice the quickest?"
This was the question that Reception had to answer when they carried out their very exciting science experiment.
They worked in small groups, discussing the changes that were happening as the ice began to melt. They used warm water, salt, a scrubbing brush and washing up liquid.
They eventually discovered that the warm water melted the ice the quickest and that salt was much better than a scrubbing brush or washing up liquid.
"I think it will be warm water that melts the ice the fastest because it is warm like the sun and the sun melts the ice when its frosty." Mathew.
"The brush is too hard to melt the ice- it's not working!" Niko.
"The warm water has melted it quicker than the others- look the toy is already out of it!" Kierah.
Date: 20th Feb 2024 @ 7:38am
Today Oak class had their first 'Book Banter' session. The purpose of these weekly sessions is to allow children to discuss books with the class and promote their love of reading. We will also talk about authors, characters and themes across books. We are looking forward to sharing our love of reading with each other.
Year 4- Our 100th Day in School!
Date: 20th Feb 2024 @ 7:09am
Today, Yera 4 have been celebrating our 100th day in school by completing problem solving activities based on the book 'One is a snail, ten is a crab.' We were given a number and we had to work systematically to find all the possibliites of making that number. We found that starting with the larger number and making small changes each time was the most efficient method to find all possiblities.
Year 1 Our 100th Day in School!
Date: 19th Feb 2024 @ 6:19pm
Today we celebrated our 100th day in Year 1! We began the day with a special assembly with Miss Hooson, who introduced us to a very interesting Maths story! We enjoyed reading the story ‘One is a snail, ten is a crab’ and tried our very best to work out some of the questions in the story! When we went back to class we read and discussed the story again, to deepen our understanding of some of the calculations used in the text. We then used the animals in the story to find ways of making 10 or 20. Some of us began to think about working systematically to find all the possible options. We then chose a number between 2 and 20 and found how many legs could add together to make this number.
Date: 19th Feb 2024 @ 4:50pm
As part of our ‘100th day at School’ celebrations, we completed a problem solving activity based on the book ‘One is a snail, ten is a crab.’ We were given a number and had to find all the different possibilities of making the number. We tried to work systematically starting with the biggest number and changing one part of the calculation each time.
Year 4 - Maple's first Boundary Book Banter
Date: 9th Feb 2024 @ 3:40pm
Today Maple took part in their first Boundary Book Banter. To help engage and excite pupils in reading, we have been chatting about the books that we have checked-out of the new school library (The Attic). Each week, pupils will be given time to share their book with their peers and the whole class, explaining what they liked or disliked about the book. Together we will explore common themes and make links between different genres and different authors.
Date: 9th Feb 2024 @ 8:10am
We are so proud of all the children who took part in this year's Schools Alive hosted by Blackpool Music Service supported by Friends of BMS and held at the Winter Gardens Blackpool. Their 'School of Rock' performance ROCKED! 🎵🎵🎸🎸🎤🎤
Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 6:17pm
This week has been Internet Safety Week . It was launched on Tuesday with a whole school assembly followed by a story in our classroom about Smartie The Penguin. Here, the children learnt, along with Smartie, how to keep themselves safe on the internet by talking to a trusted adult if things didn't seem right when playing games or doing research on the internet.
"I watch films on Youtube" Mathew.
"I ask my mum if I can watch Peppa Pig" Luca.
"Don't talk to a stranger on the internet" Oliver.
Reception- RSE- Caring Friendships and Families
Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 5:39pm
This week we have been learning about how friendships can make us feel happy and how we can welcome new friends. We also learnt about how members of our family are different and how they can help us too.
At storytime, we read about Ezza The Elephant and his friends and family. We then made crowns and drew pictures of our own families.
"Always ask someone to play with you if they have no friends to play with" Esmai.
"I sometimes feel nervous but I have my friend who can play with me" Elisha.
"My family is big- lots of brothers and sisters" Oliver.
Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 3:44pm
For our second RSE lesson we explored how we grow and change. We recapped on our ground rules before our lesson and practised our feeling faces. We all remembered how to listen respecfully to one another and use our talking object on our turn. Today we read another story and discussed key questions about the events. Our story enabled us to discuss how and why babies need more help and care than older children. We tallked about lots of things we can now do that we couldn't do when we were babies. Finally, we created a lifecycle for a human being. We ordered the cards from youngest to eldest and labelled each picture.
In our third lesson we explored trust, who our trusted adults are and who to talk to if something happens that we don't like. We each identified at least three adults we can each trust in school and at home.
Year 5 - Relationships and sex education
Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 3:03pm
In year 5, we built on our learning in science to look more closely at the changes that take place in human bodies during puberty. In groups, we looked at the physical and emotional changes that happen in boys and girls and discussed the changes that are different between girls bodies and boys bodies. We discussed the importance of personal hygiene, and explored different products that are available to keep us clean and healthy.
Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 3:03pm
This week we have enjoyed our three RSE lessons. Our first lesson included reading the story 'It's Okay to Be Different' by Todd Parrs. We all took part in a circle time session to discuss the story and its key themes. This story helped us understand an important message of acceptance and understanding through a fun story with some silly scenes! We celebrated our individuality through acceptance of others and self-confidence. Through our circle time we then explored how we are all different! We drew and wrote about an imaginary friend who is different to us. Some of us drew friends with different skin colours, different hair colours, friends who were a different size to us or friends who moved differently to us.
Year 6 - Reading written French
Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 2:59pm
Year 6 ended their French unit, Les Vikings, by writing a description of a Viking using everthing they have learned over the last few weeks. They then practiced reading them out loud using their French phonic knowledge to perfect their pronunciation.
Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 2:58pm
For Internet Safety Day, Year 4 discussed the positive and negative influences on the internet. As a class, we debated whether certain influences impacted our behaviour and views positively, negatively or both. We also talked about different uses for the internet and the differences it can make to our lives.
Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 1:06pm
This half term we have been looking at Hindu Dharma in RE. We have looked at different Gods and Goddesses and how they are represented as Murtis on s shrine. The children had the opportunity to look at a shrine which was created in school and learn about home worship. They had lots of fun finding out information about the religion, especially the different Gods and Goddesses.
Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 12:12pm
Nursery are throughly enjoying PE sessions with Mr Humble. They have been developing their ball skills by bouncing and catching balls, exploring differemt ways to move their bodies and have even taken part in some team games. PE is also a great way to develop the children's listening and attention skills as well as their PSED skills.
Year 5 - Aspire-ing Carpenters
Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 11:58am
This week pupils visited Aspire Academy to begin contruction of their frame structures. We were able to use the workshop and have expert teaching. Pupils learned the names of the equipment and had a go at measuring, sawing and sanding the wood.
Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 11:25am
Nursery had a special visit from Blackpool Library when a librarian came to read us a story. We all went up to The Attic and waiting with anticiaption to hear some super stories! The children loved all the stories but I think our particuar favourtie was "Norman the Slug with the Silly Shell" By Sue Hendra.
Date: 7th Feb 2024 @ 12:08pm
Today we started to look at arrays and how they can be used to represent multiplication. We used counters to make arrays by putting them into equal rows and columns.
We then wrote multiplication expressions to describe our arrays. We found that one array can be described in two different ways. For example, 3 x 5 and 5 x 3. This is because, like addition, multiplication is commutative. Which means it can be done in any order and you will reach the same total.
Date: 6th Feb 2024 @ 3:45pm
Today we were visited by local magistrates who told us all about their jobs and how they play integral roles in the court system. We then took part in a mock trial, which centred around a case of online bullying. Children were given roles to play and words to read out, these included prosecution, defence, judge, victim, court usher and witnesses. The children really got a feel for what goes on in a courtroom and some of us are even considering future careers!
