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Date: 27th Jun 2022 @ 4:30pm
Today we began our RSE week by looking at the changes both boths and girls go through during puberty. This included both physical and emotional changes. We were given oppotunities to discuss anything we weren't sure about or ask questions about anything that we didn't understand. Throughout the rest of the week we will be looking at conception, communication in relationships and how to have safe/friendly online relationships.
Reception- Life Cycle of a Duck
Date: 26th Jun 2022 @ 11:07pm
Reception have been learning about the life cycle of a duck.
We were very lucky to have our own six duck eggs delivered to us from the farm. These were in an incubator and over the next ten days all the eggs hatched and we had six ducklings which we watched grow and change.
"First they there were six eggs in an incubator" Maya
"An incubator keeps the eggs warm like a mummy duck would if it had a nest" Isobel
"Then the eggs hatched- they cracked open the egg shell with their beaks and they came out" Isaac
"They were wet and needed to dry and keep warm under the heater in the cage" Harrison
"The ducklings were cheeping and running everywhere...when they got bigger we put them in the water...they could swim in the water" Mercedes
Year 4 - Using and Applying in Computing
Date: 26th Jun 2022 @ 6:53pm
This half term our computing topic is 'Using and Applying'. This week we focussed on using a range of useful tools and shortcuts in Google Docs to create a table that will help us store information. We learned how to create a table with the correct amount of cells, changed the font and size for the subheadings, inputted our data and changed the orientation of the page. Some great computing skills shown by our Year 4's!
Date: 26th Jun 2022 @ 6:45pm
This week in our Science lesson we revisited our Sound topic. We recapped and discusses how soundwaves are made, how we hear sound and how sound travels. We looked at the different part sof the ear and their function and finished off with a quiz. A great lesson with our Year 4's and some fantastic participation and retreival skills from our long term memory!
Date: 25th Jun 2022 @ 8:25pm
This week, we continued our fundamental skills unit in PE by learning to dribble using our hands. We used basketballs to practice dribbling around the space, trying to keep the ball under control at all times to ensure we didn't have to chase it around the playground. Once we were more confident at dribbling the ball, we played a game where we had to use our hand-eye coordination to look ahead and weaved through spaces so other people couldn't tag us and take our ball. Finally, we had a quick relay race dribbling the ball to a certain point using one hand and then used our opposite hand to dribble it back to our team.
Date: 25th Jun 2022 @ 8:11pm
This half term in Science, we are consolidating all our learning from Year 2. This week, we discussed how hygiene is important through our Animals including Humans unit. We conducted an experiment to test how effective different cleaning products that we can use on our hands are. We used pepper in a bowl and tested how far the pepper dispersed from our finger when we had washed our hands using: no soap, liquid soap, washing up liquid and hand sanitiser. We learnt the most effective product to use when washing hands is liquid soap and the least effective was no soap. We are enjoying revisiting our learning and deepening our understanding of each unit.
Date: 23rd Jun 2022 @ 9:14pm
This week has been a very busy week for lots of our Year 6 children, who have been taking part in various events at Stanley Park. Today, some of our Year 6 girls took part in a football event and did themselves and the school proud. The girls have never played as a team together before so to play as they did really demonstrated their team-work and determination. Well done to all the girls who took part.
Date: 23rd Jun 2022 @ 6:51pm
This week we have created our final pieces of artwork in the style of Steven Brown. We brought all of our prior learning around shape, colour, line and space together to create our own inspired piece of animal art. We enjoyed listening to Music as we painted and tried hard to create our own bright colours through mixing tints and shades.
Date: 23rd Jun 2022 @ 6:45pm
This week we began our Science consolidation unit. Our lesson this week began with recapping on the parts of the human body and the five senses. We were challenged to label as many part of the human body as we could on a blank human outline. We then recorded different body parts on our whole class body. We could remember lots! After that we then began to talk about animals. We recapped on the different animal classifications and the features of each. We then completed a number of different tasks, including an animal sort, writing about similarities and differences and labelling key features of animal body parts.
Date: 23rd Jun 2022 @ 5:29pm
The chilren have been working really hard to keep our outside area clean and tidy. They went on a litter picking mission, collected a lot of rubbish and made the garden look beautiful! Using the litter pickers was a great for their fine motor skills too as they have to squeeze it hard to pinch the litter - a great work out for tiny fingers!
Date: 23rd Jun 2022 @ 5:23pm
Nursery have loved exploring music outside this week and the music wall has been well used! The children have been tapping beats, playing the bells and noticed the different sounds you get when you use wooden and metal beaters on the instruments. Did you know if you tap the bottom of a drain pipe with a flip flop you get a wonderful deep sound and an upside down bucket makes a brilliant drum!
Year 3- World World Two museum
Date: 23rd Jun 2022 @ 4:19pm
Today the children had access to their own World War Two museum, in which we looked at real life artefacts from that time period. We saw soldiers' uniforms, gas masks, propaganda videos, ration books, first aid kits and a soldier’s helmet. The children considered what they could infer from this to answer the question about how Britain stood strong in the war.
Date: 22nd Jun 2022 @ 2:34pm
Summer has arrived in Reception!
This week we have been talking about the changing of the season and spotting signs of summer.
"The weather is hot and sunny" Jessica
"It is light went you go to bed" Evelyn
"The plants and vegetable grow big because there is lots of sun" Charlie.
Due to the weather being so warm we have also been learning about the importance of keeping ourselves safe in the sunshine including wearing a sun hat, drinking lots of water and putting sun cream on.
"You need to wear sun cream so you don't burn" Ariella
"Drink lots of water to keep hydrated" Indi-Anna
"Wear sun glasses to protect your eyes" Isobelle
"Go into the shade when it is too hot" Sab"
Date: 20th Jun 2022 @ 4:19pm
As part of our Science consolidation unit we went on a trip to the zoo to investigate an animals diet. We looked at what they ate to keep them healthy and compared this to our diet. We also linked our discussion to out Skeletons and Muscles topic and compared the size and shape of different muscles and bones. We thoroughly enjoyed our trip out and looking at the different animals.
Date: 20th Jun 2022 @ 12:20pm
Today, Year 6 began their new music journey. We started by recapping on musical terminology so that we could correctly use it to listen and appraise the song 'Heal the Earth'. The song was in the style of Reggae and was about how climate change is affecting our planet more than ever before. The lyrics explained how we can work together to solve some of these issues.
Year 4 Boucle d'Or Et Les Trois Ours
Date: 20th Jun 2022 @ 8:03am
This half term in french we are focussing on a whole range of new vocabulary. We are using the the well known children's book, Goldilocks and the Three Bears to discuss and learn this new vocabulary. This week we listened to the story in French and then with our partners, tried to match the pictures to the words in French. We listened to the story again to check our answers and finished off with an interactive game on the whiteboard.
Date: 20th Jun 2022 @ 7:59am
This half term in Science, we are starting our consolidation unit, recapping everything that we have learnt over the course of the year. This weeks was Electricity. We had a great lesson and has some really good discussions about what we remembered from the start of the year. We spoke about appliances that use electricity, conductors and insulators and labelled the different parts of a circuit. Then we made a range of different circuits using condustors and insulators to put our theories to the test!
Date: 20th Jun 2022 @ 7:43am
In this unit, we ask ‘How Does Music Connect Us with the Environment?’ as an entry point for the broad Social Theme of ‘Music Is a Nature Lover and Guardian of the Earth’. We will look at how this links to other subjects and learning in school such as nature, environment, animals, Geography, Science, Art, Forest School, climate change etc. We began our first lesson by listening to the song ‘You and Me’ and decided that this was Pop music. We discussed similar songs and artists from this genre and why we like or disliked this piece. We then began looking at the structure of the song ‘You and Me’ and began learning the chorus – we know this to be the ‘catchy’ part or the hook and we started to practice the first verse and chorus.
We can't wait to use the Recorders in the next few weeks and create our own piece of music!
Date: 19th Jun 2022 @ 10:11pm
This week Reception had some fluffy surprises- ducklings!
On Monday, a special delivery of six duck eggs in an incubator arrived in our classroom. Over the next 24 hours all six eggs hatched with the children being lucky enough to actually witness this themselves!
When they had dried out they were moved from the incubator to the cage and by Thursday they had already had their first experience of swimming!
The children enjoyed holding them, cleaning their cage out and choosing their names (Bob, Daisy, George, Pepper, Spidey and Nugget)!
"The Incubator keeps the eggs warm" Evelyn.
"They crack the eggs with their beaks" James.
"They hatch ot of the eggs" Charlea- Rai.
A baby duck is a duckling" Loui.
Date: 19th Jun 2022 @ 4:58pm
Last half term, our Music unit explored how Music can make us happy and want to make us dance. Throughout the unit, we listened to and appraised lots of music including: I wanna play in a band, the themetune from E.T, Music is all around, Moon and River as well as Saying sorry. Whilst appraising the music we thought about how different styles of music can make different people happy and some songs have a good, bouncy rhythm that makes us want to dance. We also learnt the lyrics to a range of these songs and enjoyed performing them vocally as well as using the glokenspiels to perform the music. The children particularly enjoyed the lyrics to Saying sorry which was our favourite to perform but we also enjoyed revisiting I wanna play in a band as we covered this in the Autumn term.
Date: 19th Jun 2022 @ 10:13am
In History this week we have started our new History topic of World War Two. We started by looking at the chronology of the events that led to war. We created a timeline of events to understand the order in which the events happened. We then investigated why the British government appeased Hitler before the war. This led to a discussion over the reasons for and against appeasement.
Date: 19th Jun 2022 @ 10:08am
Year Three have been lucky enough to have Samba classes throughout there time in Year Three. They have enjoyed learning how to play as part as an ensemble, practicing rhythms and playing a range of different instruments.
Date: 17th Jun 2022 @ 7:46pm
This week in Maths we have recapped on how to find half of a quantity and moved on to finding a quarter of a quantity. We used resources and concrete apparatus to find a quarter of different amounts using the concept of sharing to split each quantity into four equal parts.
Year 1 - Meeting the Ducklings
Date: 17th Jun 2022 @ 7:36pm
In Year 1 we have all worked very hard with our phonics screening this week, so as a little treat this afternoon we got to meet the ducklings from Reception! We we're all very excited to meet them and thought of lots of questions to ask about them. The ducklings were very energetic and cute and we loved meeting them!
Date: 17th Jun 2022 @ 7:25pm
This half term, our Art journey is painting. We have explored paintings by Wassily Kandinsky and Steven Brown and created inspiration pages in our sketchbooks. Today we experimented with different colours and tools to explore mark making and line. We worked indepdently to use lines of different length, shape and thickness to create our own line drawing.
