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Date: 18th May 2023 @ 12:07pm
Our outdoor classroom provides lots of wonderful opportunities for our children to develop their own ideas and learning. This week they have been exploring the water area and making picnics and delicious cups of tea. They loved looking for strawberries on our strawberry plants and built an ice cream shop using bricks. These ideas all came from the children as they used the avalible resources in their own way.
Year 3 explore how water is transported in a plant!
Date: 18th May 2023 @ 11:53am
In Science we investigated how water is trasported through plants. We had flowers, cups, celary, food colouring and water. These were placed on the children's desk and they were to decide how to use these resources to show water being transported. We placed the flowers in cups of water and food colouring. Through the next 24 hours, we observed the flowers change colour. The leaves, inside the stem, the buds and the petals all started to dye.
Date: 18th May 2023 @ 11:51am
This week we have been enjoying a great story called Bumble Bear all about a bear who loves honey so much he decides to join bee school! We have been exploring the striped pattern of the bumble bee, learning how bees make honey and making our own bees out of playdough. The children have also been following a step by step guide to draw a bee - great for learning how to follow instructions! Its been a very buzzzzzy week!
Year 3- Forest School Fun Part 2
Date: 18th May 2023 @ 11:48am
Week 2 of Froest School was a blast! We started by looking at the ponds and we noticed that they were drying up and that our tadpoles were in need of rescuing. Some of us dedicated our time to filling the pond back up and we loved to see the tadpoles swimming again. We also used tools to shave twigs and then used natural resources to dye them. Finally, we used shovels to get ready to plant our own courgettes.
Year 3- Creating our compositions !
Date: 18th May 2023 @ 10:55am
This lesson in Music, Year Three looked at composing along to the song ‘He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands”. The children moved from using the pulse to create music to moving notes onto a stave.
Year 3- Forest School fun returns!
Date: 18th May 2023 @ 10:51am
This week the children of Year 3 went back to our forest school. The children enjoyed the opportunity to get back to nature and observe how the area had changed through the session. We really loved looking at the tadpoles and even spotted a few frogs!
Date: 18th May 2023 @ 10:48am
In this lesson we focused on the different parts of a plant. The children took apart plants to see parts such as the stem, roots, root hairs, petals, flowers and buds.
Date: 17th May 2023 @ 6:53pm
Today we built on our knowledge of recognising a half of an object or shape to now find a half of shape or an object. Throughout todays lesson, we had lots of opportunities to practically find and make half using pictures, objects and shapes. We experimenting different ways of making a half using a range of resources, reinforcing that a half means ‘one of two equal parts.’
Date: 16th May 2023 @ 9:55pm
This week in Reception the children have visited out school pond area. We have been learning about the different animals that live in the pond and what they need to grow and survive. We observed the pond life and spotted some tadpoles. We observed them in the pond and then took some of them back to our classroom. We put them in a tank and have been wtching how they grow and change.
"The frogs lay frog spawn in the pond:" Kit
"The tadpole come out of the eggs" Albie
They have long tails to help them swim" Lelan
When they get bigger they grown legs. Then its a froglet" Alfie
Date: 16th May 2023 @ 4:37pm
Today, we had a very special visit from vicars from the local church Matt and Matthew. They came in and discussed how the church is a community for members of the congregation and shared that they pray and sing together when they attend. They also talked to us about the importance of praying and reading the bible and how this guides Christians lives. Lastly, they shared with us the clothes they wear and how they conduct communion by members of the congregation sharing wine (blackcurrant juice) and bread.
Date: 16th May 2023 @ 3:43pm
In assembly on Monday, we spoke about Mental Health Week and the focus being anxiety. We discuss things that might be going through our minds and what we could do to help ourselves.
Date: 16th May 2023 @ 3:37pm
This week, we continued our studies of South America, The Amazon and The Amazon Rainforest. We looked at lots of pictures and compared the two cities. We then annotated our flip chart papers using Human and Physical Geography vocabulary such as river, rainforest, city, capital city, rural and urban.
Date: 16th May 2023 @ 11:43am
In our topic of Stop Motion animation we created short films from still pictures. We used onion skinning techniques to know where our previous picture were so that our changes were small. We made sure not to include our own hair/fingers in the photos to ensure consistency in the finished clip. Some people even added sound (planes and trains) to our animations. We were inspired by our Science of Growth and the WW2 topic using steam trains and fighter planes to create our animations.
Date: 15th May 2023 @ 6:18pm
Today we were very excited to be able to use the Chromebooks! We began by thinking about how we can paint using computers and we were introduced to 'Paintz.' We explored all of the different tools available and began to choose appopriate shapes and colours to create a digital picture in the style of an artist. We looked at art work created by Eric Carle and created a picture in this style.
Date: 15th May 2023 @ 4:53pm
What an amazing day at Blackpool Zoo! The pupils all had a fantastic time, their behaviour was a credit to the school and their families, and they walked there and back again without a moan. We saw many of the wonderful animals, including: ring-tailed lemurs, monkeys, giraffes and a close-up with the red panda, and we also had talks from the zoo's education team about sea lions, elephants and penguins. Khari the lion has been returned to Blackpool zoo into his new enclosure, and has been out exploring for the first time this week. It was great to see him back again!
Reception- Learning Fundamental Skills in PE
Date: 12th May 2023 @ 4:33pm
This week in PE, Reception have been improving their fundamental skills of jumping, running and stepping up onto a bench. The children were split into teams and had to jump off the bench, grab a cone and then jump back onto the bench.
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Year 2 Making good behavioral choices
Date: 12th May 2023 @ 1:41pm
This week, Year Two explored different types of behaviours and discussed the importance of making good choices in regards to our actions and behaviours. We talked about what good behaviour make look and sound like before sorting a range of actions into good choices and poor choices. Also, we discussed how we are in control and it is important to have self-control at all times to allow us to make good choices.
Reception Find out about the lifecycle of the buterfly
Date: 12th May 2023 @ 10:29am
This week the children in Reception have been learning about the lifecycle of a butterfly. The children have been observing our classroom caterpillars, watching them grow and change.
"The caterpillar is getting bigger" Jenson
"When it is big it will make a chrysalis" Lana-Rose
"They change into a butterfly" Kit
"It happens again and again" Skylor.
The children have been getting creative painting and collaging caterpillars, cutting and sticking the lifecycle and writing sentences to explain whats happening.
Date: 11th May 2023 @ 3:07pm
Nursery have been working hard developing their number skills this week. During our Bug in a Jar activity, the children rolled a dice and used their subitisng skills to say how many spots were on the dice. They then had to count out the matching number of bugs to go in the bug jar.
Nursery Superworm is Super Strong!
Date: 11th May 2023 @ 2:55pm
This week we have read the story "Superworm" about a worm with super strength. The chidlren have been busy exploring length by making longer and shorter worms and adding colours to worms to create a repeating pattern. In the story, Wizard Lizard has a magic flower, the children have been busy trying to create their own magical flowers!
Year 3- Boundary's WW2 Museum!
Date: 11th May 2023 @ 2:47pm
Today we had our very own History Museum with artefacts from WW2. We explored these and read information to help us to answer our key question for the lesson 'How did Britain stand firm during WW2?' We found out that Britain were prapred with gas masks, evacuated children, rationed food, implemented the Home Guard, had bomb shelter and also put women to work in the factories.
Year 4 - Cloning and combining
Date: 11th May 2023 @ 2:18pm
The children really impressed us this week with their image editing skills. We used a website called pixlr.com to clone (copy and paste) parts of images to change their composition - whether that be add or remove something in the image. Then they had a go at combining images where they used part of another image to copy across to their original.
Date: 11th May 2023 @ 12:11pm
Today, we began to find ¾ of an amount by using a bar model to help us. We split our bar model into 4 equal parts and shared counters accurately. Then we had to count how many was in 3 groups to find the answer.
Date: 10th May 2023 @ 6:58pm
This week we wrote our spring acrostic poems. We used everything we had learnt from finding features in poems to create a descriptive poem with alliteration and similies! We tried very hard with the presentation of our poems and we were all very proud of the results!
Date: 10th May 2023 @ 6:54pm
Today we worked on becoming more confident with doubling numbers up to 20 and began to explore doubles beyond 20. Independently, we built doubles and explained what a double is using objects, mathematical resources and pictures, using the STEM sentence ‘double __ is __’ to reinforce our understanding.
