: Blog items
Date: 30th Nov 2023 @ 4:02pm
Today we had our first of three Forest School sessions. In this session we spent our time lighting fires, making hot chocolate and using thinsg found in nature to create headbands/wreaths. The weather was cold but the sun was shining and we had a great time.
Date: 30th Nov 2023 @ 3:00pm
The children explored the skill of chiaroscuro in art which means 'light- dark'. We looked at how to use charcoal to create shadows and then used rubbers and chalk to create highlights. We will sue these skills in our fianl piece.
Date: 30th Nov 2023 @ 1:39pm
On Thursday 9th November and Friday 10th November, the children in Acorns have been looking at poppies and exploring the pictures and key words associated with Remembrance Day.
The children were very busy painting poppies and making poppy cookies. They also explored the different materials that were used, with adult supervision and support, to make a poppy ready to plant in our Remembrance Garden.
Finally, on Friday, the children went and planted the poppies in our Poppy Garden.
Date: 30th Nov 2023 @ 1:21pm
This week the children in Acorns have been exploring the celebration of Bonfire Night. We listened to the song of Guy Fawkes and looked at bonfires and fireworks. We created a 'bonfire' style tuff tray where the children pretended to toast marshmallows on the bonfire. The children enjoyed getting creative making their own bonfire night pictures and fireworks. We also looked at firework numbers and some of the children could order the numbers 1-10, which is a huge achievement for our children. We encouraged communcation through repeating the numbers aloud and pointing to them at the same time.
Date: 30th Nov 2023 @ 1:17pm
This week Acorns have been having a spooky time in class!
We listened to the story Room on the Broom, looked at spooky objects, which encouraged us to use our fine motor skills, did some pumpkin craft and made spooky potions. We also enjoyed exploring the inside of pumpkins and the different textures it has. We used widgit cards to encourage communication for the story 'Room on the Broom' and also for the key objects for Halloween.
Date: 30th Nov 2023 @ 12:17pm
In Nursery we have started to have Bucket Time to support the development of the childrens communication and language skills. The chidlren watch and listen as an adult explores what is in the bucket and models language and explores ideas. The children really enjoy Bucket Time and are fully engaged to find out what's in the bucket!
Date: 30th Nov 2023 @ 11:31am
This week's theme was based on the story 'Handa's Surprise'. We enjoyed exploring new colours, texures and fruits. We had lots of fun painting with fruit and adding the different fruits to a basket just like in the story. We looked at using our fine motor skills by threading laces through different fruits and vegetables.
Date: 30th Nov 2023 @ 11:26am
Nursery visited outerspace this week! We read the story "The Way Back Home" by Oliver Jeffers about a boy who finds an areoplane and flies all the way to the moon! He runs out of petrol and meets an alien whose spaceship has broken down! We learnt all about the different planets and used balloons to print some planets. Outside we built a rocket using the bricks and went on lots of adventures to space! One day we discovered some aliens in our garden and we talked about how they might of got there. We also used magnetic shapes and building blocks to build our own rockets. We had to think carefully about the shapes we needed to make a rocket. Its been a very busy week!
Date: 30th Nov 2023 @ 11:21am
This week we had our theme of 'Transport'. We had lots of creative fun: painting with cars, construction tuff tray, racing the cars around road numbers and messy play car wash. We encouraged communcation using makaton and widgits for: car, road, bus, plane, train, digger, right, left, forward and backward.
Date: 30th Nov 2023 @ 10:30am
We had some very exciting visitors - the owls!
We met Tike, Casper, Bugs and Twiglet. The owls were all very different. Tike was a burrowing owl who lives underground. Casper has huge brown eyes which can see for miles. We enjoyed watching the flying demonstrations and were amazed at how silent their wings were when they flew. We were lucky enough to hold Twiglet - the youngest of all the owls.His feathers look just like the bark of a tree so he can camouflage himself from predators. He had sharp talons to help him catch his food too.
We spent the afternoon painting owls, using pegs and pom poms.
Date: 30th Nov 2023 @ 10:20am
During our time exploring the outside area, we enjoyed looking at playing with the different resources and looking at the different areas. We do love the great outdoors and having a good play!
Year 4 - Acting from a filmscript
Date: 30th Nov 2023 @ 10:15am
In Reading into Writing we have been looking at playscripts and filmscripts. Today we had a go at acting out part of the filmscript from Arthur Christmas.
Date: 30th Nov 2023 @ 10:09am
This week our theme has been 'Dear Zoo'. We enjoyed looking at the different animals and looking at the book as well as listening to Mr Tumble's storytime version. We created some art work using our hands in the paint to create some of the animals from the story: puppy, lion and frog.
Date: 30th Nov 2023 @ 9:57am
Our favourite thing to engage with in our outdoor area, are the water tuff trays. We especially enjoyed it when we used the hose to spray it in the air and wash the windows and walls. Thank goodness for our waterproofs!
Date: 30th Nov 2023 @ 9:51am
During our PE session, we enjoyed jumping over the hurdles and crawling underneath them. We then explored with balls and rolled them underneath the hurdles too. We had such a fun time!
Year 4 - Most effective toothpaste
Date: 30th Nov 2023 @ 8:50am
This week we tested which the most effective toothpaste is. We observe how damaged egg shells (representing our teeth enamel) were after leaving them in white vinegar for 24 hours. We had one control egg, one egg covered in children's toothpaste, one egg covered in a toothpaste which cost £1 and one egg covered in a toothpaste which cost £5. Which do you think was the most effective? Ask a Year 4 child for the answer!
Date: 30th Nov 2023 @ 8:46am
After learning new rolls and jumps (pike, straddle and forward straddle), we have started to look at how we can put them into a sequence ready to perform to the rest of the class.
Date: 29th Nov 2023 @ 6:16pm
Today we helped Ted solve another problem! Firstly, we learnt our new vocabulary. We learnt that transparent means it allows light to pass through so that objects behind are seen easily. We also learnt that opaque means that no light is able to pass through it. We looked at different examples together until we were confident in identifying transparent and opaque. We then learnt that Ted had another problem! His new house needed curtains because his windows are transparent and let lots of light in. We then tested different materials to offer him advice on which material would be best to make curtains from. We identified how to make it a fair test and the method we needed to follow.
Enterprise Visit to Highfurlong
Date: 29th Nov 2023 @ 2:26pm
Date: 29th Nov 2023 @ 12:26pm
This week the children have been reading the story 'Oliver's Wood' which is all about an owl called Olliver who stays up late on day and discovers the sun. He is so excited that he wants to tell his friends hedgehog and badger but they are all asleep. The children have enjoyed retelling the story and finding out more information about nocuturnal animals. The children we lucky enought to meet a real life hedgehog Norris from Blackpool Hedgehog Rescue. The children learnt about how to care for a sick hedgehog, how they use their sense to find food and what they like to eat. We followed up our visit by creating our own hedgehogs at the creative table and writing about them.
"Hedgehogs use their nose to sniff out food" Mathew
"They eat worms, slugs, beetles and snails" Hunter
"Don't feed them milk it makes them poorly" Summer G
"Hedgehogs are nocturnal" Isaac
"They come out at night and sleep in the day" Levi
Date: 29th Nov 2023 @ 12:08pm
Reception have been talking about the Hindu and Sikh celebration of Divali 'The Festival of Light". We talked about why the celbration was iimportant to them and how they prepared to it and celebrated with their families. We looked at some tradition Skih clothing, maki diva lamps and painted rangoli patterns.
"They decroate their homes for Divali" Sahiti
"Diva lamps go in the windows" Sid
"The make rangoli patterns rto welconme people to their house" Esmai
"They have a special dinner with thei family" Elisha
"They watch fireworks at night" Kisha
Date: 29th Nov 2023 @ 8:12am
We had a visit from the fire brigade who discussed all the ways they help us. They taught us what to do if there was a fire and how we can keep ourselves safe. They set us a mission to see where our smoke alarms are and to test that they work with the help of an adult to ensure we keep safe.
Year 2 - Adding two 2-digit numbers
Date: 28th Nov 2023 @ 9:15pm
Today we started adding two 2-digit numbers that do not cross the tens. We used place value counters and mats to help us see what happens when we add two 2-digit numbers. We started by making each 2-digit number with PV counters. We then added the ones before going on to add the tens and then combining them.
Date: 28th Nov 2023 @ 9:01pm
During our RE sessions this half term, Year Two have been studying Christianity and what Christians mean when they say that Jesus is 'the light of the world'. We explored a Christingle and what each part represents before making our own Christingles. We then gathered together in the hall to light our Christingles and have a collective moment of reflection. We also sang the Christmas carols, 'Silent Night' and 'Do you hear what I hear?' whilst considering the meaning behing their lyrics.
Date: 28th Nov 2023 @ 12:11pm
We love looking at and listening to the books in our room - especially the nursery rhyme ones. We sing the nursery rhymes alongside the musical books too. Some of the children are beginning to repeat key phrases from them too such as, 'Hickory Dickory Dock' and 'Tick Tock'.
