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Date: 10th May 2022 @ 7:30pm
In PE this half term our learning is all about object manipulation. During our first two weeks we have been practising dribbling with a football, trapping a ball with our feet and turning with a ball. We have joined in with lots of games to practise these skills, using our prior knowledge of spatial awareness and finding the spaces within an area. We have enjoyed using the footballs to travel with a ball with confidence and skill.
Date: 10th May 2022 @ 7:12pm
In today's lesson we learnt how to follow instructions to achieve an outcome. We recapped on the features of instructions and how they need to be in the chronological order to make sense. We learnt the importance of checking our instructions and ensuring they have every step included. We discovered that we need to be clear and specific when giving instructions to enable a final goal to be reached successfully. We then gave instructions to Miss Kay, telling her how to make a jam sandwich. We saw what happens when we weren’t clear and how the end goal wasn’t what we wanted! We then worked in pairs to follow the correct instructions on how to make a jam sandwich.
Date: 10th May 2022 @ 5:01pm
This half term, Year Two are learning all about Mary Seacole. We started the journey by being History detectives and used photos of evidence to try and figure out who Mary Seacole was and the reasons why she was famous. We all had very different ideas about why she was famous and eventually figured out that she helped British soldiers in the Crimean war. We followed this on by exploring the key events in Mary's life and sequenced them and this week we have focused on what Mary's role was in the Crimean war. We were amazed at the acts of kindness Mary displayed towards British and Russian soldiers and how important she was in helping soldiers in the Crimean war.
Date: 10th May 2022 @ 4:55pm
Our pre-school children are busy preparing for their transistion in to Reception in September. We have started to put pictures of the children at different activites in continuous provision and they must complete their Mini Me challenge by the end of the session! This will be something the children will do when they are in Reception, so it is good practise! They have done really well so far and have all had a really good try at completing their challenge!
Date: 8th May 2022 @ 6:42pm
This week in music we got the glockenspiels out! After warming up and finding the pulse of a song we then started breaking down the different verses of 'Train is A-Comin' and the different notes used. At first, this proved to be quite hard becuase the tempo was extremely fast and there were a lot of notes to remember. After some perseverence and a slower tempo, we began to get the hang of it and performed really well! Looking forward to the next one!
Date: 8th May 2022 @ 10:42am
In Year 1, our current Reading into Writing journey is poetry. This week we have been immersing ourselves in lots of different examples! We have looked at a range of poems, including acrostic poetry. We have worked with a partner to read and find the features of each poem. We have been looking for: capital letters, adjectives, rhyming words, alliteration and similies. We will then be writing our own Spring acrostic poems using all the features we have found to help us!
Year 1 We're Going on a Plant Hunt!
Date: 8th May 2022 @ 10:33am
Today we were learning to identify and name some common garden and wild plants. We discussed the question, where do plants grow? We worked as a class to think of as many places as we could. We then learnt that garden plants are usually planted and looked after by people and wild plants grow wherever their seeds fall. We looked at lots of different examples of wild plants and garden plants. We answered questions like, how would you describe these plants? How are these plants similar? How are they different? And where might you see these plants growing? We then went on a plant hunt around our school outdoor areas. We worked together to create a tally chart of plants we found and drew some observational drawings.
Year 1 Having Fun with Improvisation
Date: 8th May 2022 @ 10:08am
In Year 1 this half term we are going to be exploring improvisation through the key question, 'What songs can we sing to help us through the day?' Our song for our first lesson was called 'Getting Dressed.' Through our understanding music task we practised finding and keeping a steady beat and copying simple rhythmic patterns using long and short notes. We then listened and appraised the song, before singing together as a group and having fun! We stood up straight to focus on our breathing, moved to the music and created actions for the song! We also then used the glockenspiels to play the notes C, D and E with the song we were performing.
Reception The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Date: 6th May 2022 @ 4:49pm
This week, Reception have been reading the story 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'. They have been learning about the life cycle of a butterfly and have been observing the changes in our own class caterpillars. Using resources from our creative area, the children created their own caterpillars and then went outside hunting for them in our garden.
Date: 6th May 2022 @ 12:35pm
This week in Reception the children have been learning a new song about 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' and used instruments to keep a steady beat. We also learnt a song aboiut Peter Rabbit and added actions for his curly tail and floppy whiskers. We used the claves to play syllables in a phrase to say goodbye.
Nursery Planting Sunflower Seeds
Date: 5th May 2022 @ 5:49pm
Today Nursery planted sunflower seeds. We recycled our used milk cartons and filled them with soil. Then we carefully pushed a sunflower seed in to the soil and gave it a little drink of water - not too much though! We didn't want to drown it! Then the children wrote their names on a lolly pop stick so they knew which sunflower was theirs. We talked about how we need to care for our seeds and make sure they have enough water and light to help them grow.
Year Three's final forest school fun!
Date: 5th May 2022 @ 4:19pm
Today was our final forest school session of year three! We enjoyed building dens, building a fire, filling the ponds, using tools and tasting dandelion fritters. Mrs Fielding's class enjoyed a pizza party for her birthday after making and building a fire.
Date: 5th May 2022 @ 4:06pm
This half term Year Two are practicing skills needed to play invasion games. This week we explored chest passes, under arm throwing and over arm throwing to accurately throw a ball and have our partner catch it. We worked on throwing different distances as we got more confident and adjusting which pass we used to ensure it had enough power to reach our partner. To the end the session, we played a game of Ghostbusters where people in bibs were trying to intercept the ball of the children who were 'ghosts' and throwing the balls to their partners. We really had to think hard about the passes used and the distance we were throwing to make sure the alien didn't intercept our ball.
Reception A letter from the giant in the sky...
Date: 5th May 2022 @ 9:21am
This week Reception had a very special letter delivered to our classroom. It was a letter for the giant in the sky who asked us to plant our very own magic beans outside in the garden. Together we discussed what we needed to do and thing we would need.
"We need a plant pot to put it in" Isaac
"You have to water it every day so that it grows bigger and bigger" Isobelle
"Make sure it is somewhere sunny" Jessica
"I'm going to climb up my beanstalk and go and see the giant" Charlie
Whose we had planted our beans the children wrote some fantastic instructions back in the classroom.
Date: 4th May 2022 @ 8:22pm
This week nursery have continued to find out about growth and change. We have been keeping a close eye on our tiny caterpillars and they're not so tiny anymore! Infact, they're getting rather big! As well as watching the caterpillars grow, the children have also been planting seeds. We started with cress seeds and will be moving on to sunflower seeds later in the week! We have been talking about looking after the seeds and that we have to make sure we keep them watered to help them grow. We have also been using different types of bricks to build the tallest bean stalk and practising matching numeral and quantity using seeds.
Year 2 Continuous line drawings
Date: 4th May 2022 @ 7:56pm
After exploring our two artists- Henri Matisse and Kittie Jones this week Year Two practiced their own drawing skills. We explored what continuous drawing meant and were shocked that we would have to focus on drawing a small object for 5 minutes continuously ensuring we added lots of detail to our drawing instead of focusing on just the outline. We practiced drawing lots of natural objects such as leaves, flowers as well as our germinating beans. Miss Duckworth and Miss Hooson were proud of the concentration and care the children took of their drawings and the children were incredibly proud of their drawings. We look forward to designing and creating our final pieces inspired by either of our artists!
Year 2 Investigating how plants grow
Date: 4th May 2022 @ 7:50pm
This half term, Year Two are exploring plants focusing on the key questions how do they grow? What do they need to grow? To investigate over time we planted some runner beans in a plastic bag with water to watch how it germinates as well as planting our own sunflower seeds. We are pleased to report after a week, our beans have begun to germinate when they have water and the right temperature. Also, most of our sunflowers have turned into seedlings and we are going to continue monitoring how much they grow each week. We are loving checking on them each morning and it's especially exciting now we can see how they grow.
Date: 4th May 2022 @ 7:45pm
During the last couple of weeks, Year 2 have been learning all about fractions. We have learnt fractions are equal parts of a whole discussing the importance of the groups being equal. To put it into a real life context we thought lots about sharing pizza and sweets equally making sure we all received the same amount. Then we put our theory into practice and used concrete resources to show halves, quarters, thirds and three quarters. During our learning we noticed two quarters is equivalent to a half. We have enjoyed our fractions unit and realised we use them lots in our everyday life!
Year 4 Our Ancient Egyptian Tomb
Date: 4th May 2022 @ 5:02pm
This week in Year 4 we were exploring what we would discover if we were to follow in the footsteps of Howard Carter into an Ancient Egyption tomb. We rearranged the classrooms and gave our explorers a torch each. They then only had a short time to explore the 'tomb' and find the hidden artifacts. Our Year 4's absolutely loved this and they did a fantastic job of describing what they had found in the short time they were in there.
Date: 4th May 2022 @ 4:56pm
In our RE journey this half term we are focussing on Islam. Last week we began by researching the 5 Pillars of Islam and what each of them meant. We then went on an 'information hunt' to find as much information as we could and share it with the rest of the class. Some fantastic teamwork and collaborative learning form our Year 4's!
Year 5 Gymnastics - Matching and Mirroring
Date: 4th May 2022 @ 4:55pm
One of Year 5's unit for PE this half-term is gymnastics where we are focusing on matching and mirroring. So far on our learning journey, we have investigated different ways to move our body and practise mirroring our partner whilst doing so. Further to this, we started to practise different types of roles across the floor. We have looked at pencil rolls, barrel roles and teddy bear rolls.
As a class, we really need to work on our balance and control of our bodies. To help improve this, we will be doing lots of short-burst activities throughout the week to prepare for the PE lessons.
Year 3 Creating a balanced argument
Date: 4th May 2022 @ 4:50pm
In Year Three we have started looking at discussion texts and began to locate for and against arguments in the text and what language gives us a clue on which viewpoint we were looking at. We looked at cut up texts and discussed how for and against points build up to make a balanced viewpoint to build the final discussion text.
Date: 4th May 2022 @ 4:48pm
Thursday 21st April saw Year 5 have a day full of learning about Science!
The first activity of the day was 'Smashing Stereotypes' hosted by Primary Futures. This event had different types of scientists giving us clues about their jobs and we had to guess what they did. There was a pharmacist, perfume-maker and a plastic developer!
For the rest of the day, we investigated the Gentoo Penguin and did lots of exciting activities about the animal and where it lives.
We then talked about why we had a Science Day and what information we had learnt.
Date: 4th May 2022 @ 4:48pm
This half term in Year 4 in our PE lessons we are focussing on Cricket. We started off with a really good warm up, working on our hand-eye coordination, teamwork and communication skills. We then moved on to a bit of throwing and catching practice in our pairs and finished off with some batting and bowling practice. A fantastic introduction to cricket and our Year 4s loved it!
Date: 4th May 2022 @ 4:40pm
Year 5 have been learning about the unit of Science, 'Living Things and their Habitats'. In this unit, we have started to look at the reproduction process of different plants. Children were fascinated to find out there are flowering plants (sexual) and non-flowering plants (asexual) plants!
To start our learning journey off, the children were given the task of dissecting a daffodil. This was in order for us to explore the plant and its different parts, and learn about the different functions of each part.
We all really enjoyed doing this practical activity and learnt so much about flowers and plants!
