: Blog items
Date: 15th Oct 2022 @ 6:58pm
This half term Year 1 have been learning all about our local area. As part of this learning we went on a local area walk around Grange Park. Prior to leaving school, we explored photos of past and present Grange Park and discussed what we thought we might see. Whilst on our walk, we observed different types of houses, spotted physical and human features and talked about the current changes taking place. We we're also lucky enough to visit @thegrange, where we we're shown around the gardens, read a book in the library and told all about what @thegrange has to offer.
Date: 14th Oct 2022 @ 12:04pm
This week the children have been reading the story 'Owl Babies'. They have been enjoying lots of different owl based activities including painting owls, counting owl feathesr and matching them to the correct quantity, drawing the characters and labeling with the sounds with the correct sounds and retelling the story using the props at the story telling table. What a busy week we have had!
Reception Visit from SMJ Falconry
Date: 14th Oct 2022 @ 11:45am
This week Reception had some very special owl visitors; Midge, Bubbles, JD and Tike. The children were very excited to meet the owls and find out all about them. The children asked some brilliant questions finding out what they eat, how they use their senses aswell as having the opportiunity to hold Bubbles the borrowing owl. What a great time the children had!
Date: 14th Oct 2022 @ 11:29am
In Year 4, something we all need to work on is spotting simple errors in our writing. Today, we did some activities to practise spotting errors such as missing full stops, missing capital letters and simple spellings errors.
Reception- World Mental Health Day
Date: 14th Oct 2022 @ 11:26am
After a whole school assembly, Reception went back to their classrooms to discuss how they can recognise their different feelings.
They learnt how to use the 'Feelings Board' in their classrooms to show how they are feeling.
"I'm feeling happy because I'm at school" Dolly-Anne.
"I'm feeling tired because I couldn't sleep because I had a dream" Lennox.
Date: 14th Oct 2022 @ 8:50am
This week, we looked at keeping safe online. The children haven't done any online safety lessons since before summer, so we started with a Flashback to what they can remember about online safety. They were brilliant! This week, we looked at our identity online and how we know if someone is who they say they are.
Nursery's Close Encounter with the Owls
Date: 13th Oct 2022 @ 9:47pm
What a wonderful experience for our nursery children to meet 4 beautiful owls! We were able to get up close to JD, Tike, Midge and Bubbles. We saw them fly, eat some food and Tike is a burrowing owl, so he was running across the floor! All the children had the chance to hold Bubbles the owl and we found out that owls have no sense of smell!
Date: 13th Oct 2022 @ 9:29pm
Nursery had a special visitor from the local Library who came to read us a story and sing some songs and rhymes with us. We heard a lovely autumn story and learnt some new autumn rhymes.
Date: 13th Oct 2022 @ 8:52pm
Today in Science we learned all about refraction, which is the slowing down of light as it passes through denser materials. To see this in action, we used a glass full of water and dropped a pencil crayon in the glass. We observed that the pencil crayon looked broken and distorted due to refraction occuring. We also learned that refraction can make objects appear to turn in the opposite direction. We foudn this out by placing an arrow behind the glass ad moving it slowly horizontally. We saw that the arrow appeared to change direction.
Date: 13th Oct 2022 @ 12:37pm
Today we had our Now Press Play Experience which was lots of active listening and learning fun! We went on an adventure with Squidge from an alien planet, who was learning all about Solids, Liquids and Gases. We begame particles and moved through different states including water to water vapour, liquid to solid chocolate. It has helped to consolidate our science learning from this term, whilst also getting us up and moving with a little bit of acting!
Date: 12th Oct 2022 @ 7:38pm
As part of our RE topic on Christianity, today we began to reflect on where we search for guidance in how to live our lives. Christians use the Bible, the ten commandments and the Lord's Prayer. We talked about our own sources of guidance including other Gods and religious books, teachers, family and friends.
We then began to develop our debating skills by having respectful conversations about what we thought was the 'WORST' thing to do and ordered some scenarios to the 'LEAST WORST'. This proved to be a challenge with lots of conflicting opinions about what was the most 'Naughty!' We used all of our speaking and listening skills to debate and give reasons about what we thought.
Year 2: The Tiger who came to tea
Date: 12th Oct 2022 @ 12:29pm
Year Two used the Tiger who came to Tea for their reading into writing journey. We read the story, and then they used the basis of the text to write their own story about a different animal who came to their house.
We watched the play at The Grand Theatre and the children really enjoyed themselves.
Date: 12th Oct 2022 @ 10:13am
To support our learning about mountains, pupils have been researching one of the 7 Summits (the 7 tallest mountains on each of the 7 continents). We have found out which continent and country they are in, and this morning we have indicated their position on the whole school world map.
Date: 11th Oct 2022 @ 7:28pm
What a great afternoon we had taking part in the Spelling Bee. Four children from Year 5 represented their house in the spelling competition. Each person showed courage, determination and confidence in attempting their words and did really well, adding to the overall total for their houses. Well Done Chepstow, who were the winners!
Date: 11th Oct 2022 @ 6:40pm
This week we held the first Spelling Bee of the year. All children were tested on 30 spellings they have been learning this half term and the best speller in each house was chosen to represent their team.
Date: 11th Oct 2022 @ 8:21am
This morning children in Year 5 visited Aspire Academy to take part in a science lesson. As part of our learning journing with 'materials and their properties' we were challenged to separate a mixture of rock, salt and water. Our first task was to filter the solution using a funnel and filter paper, which removed the rock. This left a solution of salt water. By heating the solution with a bunsen-burner, we made the (liquid) water evapourate, leaving behind the (solid) salt.
Nursery find a Dragon in their Book!
Date: 10th Oct 2022 @ 10:33pm
Nursery enjoyed a super book by Tom Fletcher called "There's a Dragon in your Book". This is super interactive story where the children try to help a baby dragon put out the fire in the book. From the story the chidlren have interacted with a dragon small world and made up stories, developed their maths skills by feeding dragons the correct number of gems and developed their finger muscles by trying to balance dragon eggs on golf tees!
Date: 10th Oct 2022 @ 10:09pm
To help develop their listening and attention skills, the nursery children have been enjoying some exciting music sessions. During the sessions they have the opportunity to play some instruments including maraquitas and tambourines and have to listen carefully so they can copy a beat. Music time is also great for developing early phonics skills as the children learn songs and rhymes, listen to how sounds can be changed and tap simple beats.
Date: 10th Oct 2022 @ 7:23pm
This week we have enjoyed learning how to use Beebots! We began the day by learning some important new key words and their meaning. We then learnt about codes and instructions. We found out the importance of following instructions carefully and giving instructions in the correct order. Then it was our turn to create a code for our friends by ordering a set of instruction cards. We tried very hard to be robots and only follow the given instructions! In the afternoon, we we're then ready to put this learning into place to complete a number of Beebot activities. We explored the Beebot app, gave Beebots instructions to follow a maze and worked pracitcally to debug instructions.
Date: 10th Oct 2022 @ 7:11pm
In PE this half term we have explored jumping in a variety of different ways. We have learnt to work safelty within a defined space, bend out legs when landing and to drive our arms upwards. We have practised running skillfully to negotiate space within our warm ups and how to work effectively within a team. We have enjoyed learning these skills with Mr Williams and our class teachers.
Reception- Harvest- being thankful.
Date: 7th Oct 2022 @ 12:26pm
This week we have been celebrating Harvest Festival and talking about being thankful.
The children watched Y6 present Harvest assembly to the whole school then we went back to our classrooms and discussed what we were thankful for.
We then made a Harvest Wreath attaching different fruits and vegetables that are harvested at this time of year.
"I am thankful for my mummy because she looks after me" Lana- Rose.
Year 5 Roman Numerals Jigsaw challenge
Date: 7th Oct 2022 @ 11:41am
We have applied our knowledge of Roman Numerals to work out and create different jigsaws by matching the numbers with the Roman numerals. The challenge was tricky because some of the numbers didn't match because they formed the outside edge.
Date: 7th Oct 2022 @ 11:38am
During the start of our reading into writing journey for Non-Chronological reports we have been reading and finding the features of different good examples (WAGOLLS). We have also done a jigsaw task where we had to read each paragraph, work out which text it belonged to and organise the structure. We decided on the order and layout before gluing them down.
Date: 7th Oct 2022 @ 9:49am
Matthew and Jeni came to speak to Year 6 about sin, resurrection and salvation.
Matthew used the example of a 'Do not touch' sign as sin and that if Christians ignore the instructions from God and sin, this can become a habit and we can 'stick' with sinning - and Matthew got 'stuck' to the chair.
We discussed that Christians believe that, through talking with God, they can repent and ask for forgiveness and seek salvation from our wrong choices.
There was an opportunity at the end of the session to ask questions about the key words used during the session and Year 6 discussed the types of questions they wanted to ask, recorded them and then took part in a thoughtful question and answer time.
Year 4's amazing figurative language list
Date: 6th Oct 2022 @ 8:29pm
For the last few weeks of this half term, we are writing a fantasy setting description. The children were shown the setting they'd be describing today and then they worked really hard together to come up with examples of figurative language and fronted adverbials that they could use in their own writing.
