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Reception- A visit from SMJ Falconry
Date: 10th Oct 2023 @ 10:42pm
The children in Reception had a very exciting visit today- they met four owls! The children went to meet their feathered friends in the dance studio and waited patiently for their handler to take them out of their boxes. They 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. The children enjoyed learning about the different owls. They found out what they like to eat and how they use their senses to catch their prey. 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. What a fantastic experience for all the children.
Date: 10th Oct 2023 @ 5:38pm
Today, all of the children in year 5 were given an amazing opportunity to take part in an African drumming workshop. Pupils learned about the different percussion instruments from west Africa and had a go at playing a djembe - an African drum. We learned different dances and rhythms and performed what we had learned in a whole school assembly at the end of the day. What an amazing experience!
Date: 10th Oct 2023 @ 1:26pm
Nursery had a very exciting visit this week - we met four owls! We went to meet our feathered friends in the dance studio and waited patiently for their handler to take them out of their boxes. We met Tike, Casper and Twiglet. and a beautiful owl with bright orange eyes. We were excited to learn that Tike burrows under the ground and Casper comes from Africa. One of the owls had bright orange eyes and these help him to see over long diatnaces so he can catch his prey. We also got to hold Twiglet. Twiglet's feathers look just like the bark of a tree so he can camouflage himself from preditors. Thank you SMJ Falconry for bringing your owls to see us.
Date: 10th Oct 2023 @ 10:22am
This morning the children participated in a whole school spelling bee. The children represented their houses and went head to head in front of the whole school. Well done to Elliott, Chelsea, Advait and Rehaanvir who were excellent going up for Year 3!
Reception- Holly Class Bake Bread
Date: 8th Oct 2023 @ 10:16pm
After reading the story, Little Red Hen, Reception decided to bake bread. They all worked together, helping each other to weigh the ingredients, mix the ingredients and knead the dough before placing it in a bowl to allow it to rise. Then it was baked in the oven and eaten.
Unlike the story, where Little Red Hen had to do everything herself, all the children worked togther showing kidness and respect.
"It feels sticky" Loui- Tony
"We all helped to make the bread" Lucy.
"Mmm it tastes delicious!" Meriya.
"Little Red Hen's friends didn't help her" Kierah.
Year 5 - Biographies for Black History Month
Date: 6th Oct 2023 @ 4:27pm
This week the pupils in year 5 have been using what they have learned to write a biography about a famous black musician. They reseached the musician's family background and their music career, before planning, drafting and editing their writing. Today, pupils wrote their finished biography!
Date: 6th Oct 2023 @ 3:59pm
This half term, Year 2 have been enjoying their Music lessons as we have explored different genres and had the opportunities to play a variety of instruments. We have been focusing on learning key vocabulary including: pulse, rhythm, dynamics, tempo and ostinato. This half term, we have learnt the song 'Music is in my soul' as well as 'Hey Friends' both of which we loved the meaning of. We have also had the opportunity to play and improvise to these songs using glokenspeils as well as a range of percussion instruments. Last week, we learnt the term 'scatting' and found it funny to make up our own words and say it repetitively to a beat.
Date: 6th Oct 2023 @ 12:18pm
Every Friday is Fun Friday in Nursery! We try to do an exciting activity each week to celebrate another super week in school. The activities often invlove working as a team and sharing a taking turns which is great for developing the children's social and emotional skills. This week is was baking! We made some delicious star biscuits.
Date: 6th Oct 2023 @ 12:10pm
Nursery have throughly enjoyed reading the story "We're Going on a Bear Hunt". They have learnt the pattern of the story and are great at retelling it using a story map or just by themselves. We added instruments to make the sounds of swishy swashy grass and squelchly sqerchy mud! The chidlren loved going on a mini bear hunt outside and making theiir own story mats.
Date: 6th Oct 2023 @ 11:14am
This week the children have been exploring the traditional tale 'Little Red Hen'. The children have enjoyed role playing the story, making little red hens at the creative table, making bread, completing Little Red Hen maths activities and writing about the characters using their phonic knowledge. What a busy week we have had!
Reception- Willow class make bread
Date: 6th Oct 2023 @ 11:12am
This week the children in Reception have been reading the traditional tale 'Little Red Hen' After role playing the story and writing about the characters the children went up to your school kitchen Redcliffs to make bread. The followed a recipe and used the correct ingredients flour, water, salt, yeast and oil. The children kneaded the dough just like the Little Red Hen. We then put it in the oven and waited for it to bake. In the afternoon the children enjoyed tasting the bread.
"The flour is very soft" Oliver
"You need to knead the dough" Esmai
""The yeast makes it get bigger" Elisha
It is very tasty" Summer
Date: 6th Oct 2023 @ 10:36am
WOW! What a great trip to Aspire this morning. We learned how to be safe when using bunsen burners to heat up water and produce steam. We changed a liquid to a gas.
Year 4- Creating Christmas Cards
Date: 5th Oct 2023 @ 8:13pm
This half term in DT, Year 4 have been working towards designing, making and evaluating their own Christmas card using linkage and lever systems. Therefore, we have been mastering the practical skills needed to create our first moving mechanism. Using cards and split pins, we were able to create a waving hand! We will use these new practical skills when we start making our cards later in the half term.
Date: 5th Oct 2023 @ 3:35pm
Today, despite the weather, we enjoyed our second forest school session. Michelle read us a book called 'cool by the pool' and we pretended to be the animals in the book before we split into two groups; one group went pond dipping to look for bugs, plants and animals that we might find in a pond habitat and others explored the forest school garden opting to play in the mud puddle, mud kitchen, creating art or playing 'what time is it Mr Owl?' before we swapped over. Just before we came inside, we warmed up by having a cup of warm vimto.
Date: 5th Oct 2023 @ 12:52pm
In today's history lesson we were given a mystery to solve. We were told the story of an archaeologist called Alberto Ruz, who spent time searching through Maya temples in the 1940s. In one of the temples he found evidence of a secret area under the base of the temple. After a long time trying to get into the space, he eventually opened up the hatch to reveal the resting place of the great Maya king Pacal. The children had to work out who this person could have been based on evidence from the tomb.
Date: 5th Oct 2023 @ 9:15am
This week, pupils used their map reading skills to find the highest peaks in the UK. First, we discussed what the UK is and what is meant by 'Great Britain and Ireland'. Pupils then identified the highest mountain in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and marked them on a map of the UK. Some pupils went further, and found out facts about the mountains, such as their height in metres.
Date: 5th Oct 2023 @ 9:07am
In this lesson Year 3 looked at completing a fair test experiment that we had planned the week before. We investigated how friction changed on different surfaces then we measured and recorded our results. We had to use the measuring skills that we had learnt in Maths to support in carrying out the test accurately.
Date: 5th Oct 2023 @ 9:05am
In computing we have been doing programming and we have been learning how to use Scratch. This week we focused on creating an algorithm to make our sprite draw. We first of all explored an existing algorithm and identified how it worked. We then created our own and made our individual sprites draw.
Date: 4th Oct 2023 @ 6:15pm
In this week's French lesson, we continued learning about French grammar. We looked in more depth at the gender of nouns. We used French dictionaries to find the correct gender and then added the appropriate definate article (le, la, les or l'). Some children completed a challenge where they had to add the correct ending to make the noun plural.
Date: 3rd Oct 2023 @ 3:42pm
This week we started our work on Black History Month. We focused on Ruby Bridges and the struggles she faced in life. We spent the afternoon creating work based on her. Keep a look out for the diary entries we will be writing based on the experiences of Ruby Bridges.
Date: 3rd Oct 2023 @ 9:14am
This week, we looked at whether states of matter can be changed. We used coloured ice cubes from the freezer and observed what happened when we changed the temperature (we kept them in our classroom).
Date: 3rd Oct 2023 @ 8:22am
Last week the children went to the Globe Theatre in Blackpool to watch a Royal Ballet demonstration. The children enjoyed watching the older students dance and were impressed by the strength of the dancers!
Date: 2nd Oct 2023 @ 7:11pm
Today we continued to learn about our senses in Science whilst focusing on our sense of taste. We learnt new vocabulary associated with taste, which bit of the tongue is associated with each taste and all the different parts of the mouth. We then used the new vocabulary we had learnt to try and to describe the taste of lots of different foods!
Date: 2nd Oct 2023 @ 7:05pm
Today in Art we explored using our whole body to create spiral drawings. We used chalk, pens, pastels and pencils to create spiral drawings – first outside with large-scale drawings and then in our sketchbooks. We also practised making spirals to music; talking about how the music made us feel and how we could use this to create spirals that reflect our emotions and mood. We created quiet spirals and LOUD spirals!
Date: 2nd Oct 2023 @ 6:31pm
In this week's PE lesson, we swapped tennis for badminton - utilising the skills we have already learned. We focused on the serve and learned the most effective technique to perform a consistent serve. We practised effectively hitting the shuttlecock at a target before using forehand and backhand to take part in a rally.
