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Date: 10th Mar 2022 @ 2:25pm
This week in Reception the children have been talking about the importance of reusing and recycling unwanted waste. We collected a range of different bottles, cartons, boxes, tubs and tubs and used them to create our own junk model animals. We use tape and glue to attach the items together and them used different matterials and paint to decorate them. We made some fantastic wild animlas including parrots, elephants, giraffes, snakes and monkeys.
Date: 10th Mar 2022 @ 9:25am
In Year 3 we have begun our new Design Technology unit of sewing! We have been looking at different pillows and which stiches they have used to attatched them. Today we focussed on how to thread a needle and how to complete back stich.
Date: 9th Mar 2022 @ 12:29pm
Date: 7th Mar 2022 @ 7:20pm
This week in PSHE we explored our similarities, differences, likes and dislikes. We talked about what 'special' and 'unique' mean and understood that we are all one of a kind! We then looked at pictures of lots of different children and with our talk partners we explored what was the same about them and what was different about them. We saw that some children had different skin colours, some had different hair colours, some were girls, some were boys but they were all special! We then read the story 'Eat your Peas' and talked about our own likes and dislikes. We understood this was our opinion and there was no right or wrong answer!
Date: 4th Mar 2022 @ 5:19pm
This week in French Year 4 have been learning all about houses and the different types of rooms. We have also been discussing different types of environment that people live in. For example, the city, by the sea and in the countryside. We had a great paired discussion and activity this week!
Date: 4th Mar 2022 @ 5:16pm
This week we celebrated World Book Day 2022! We had a fantastic day in Year 4 as this was also our Forest School day! We had some great activites in class for World Book Day. We used our new bookmarks (which have a QR Code and log in details to access a whole online library on Oxford Owl) to do some book surfing and choose an online book to read. We talked about the characters that we had come dressed up as and what book they were from. We also played a fantastic quiz, thanks to Mrs Hamilton to nicely round off the day.
Year 6 Primary Futures live event
Date: 4th Mar 2022 @ 12:21pm
Today we took part in a Primary Futures live event where 3 different speakers talked to us about how important literacy skills are in their jobs. The jobs were a journalist, a banker and a marketing executive and they told us how reading and writing plays suh a vital role. It was really interesting to listen to them and find out about jobs that we could choose to have when we are older.
Date: 3rd Mar 2022 @ 8:12pm
Today we celebrated World Book. The children looked absolutely brilliant in their costumes and really put a lot of effort into becoming their characters. We had characters such as:
The convicts from Holes
Elizabeth Banks from Mary Poppins
Little Red Riding Hood
Anne Frank
Katniss Everdeen
The staff also enjoyed dressing up as some of their favourite characters. We also took park in a live event, which involved authors discussing their books and finished the day with a fun 50 question book quiz! We hope everyone enjoyed the day.
Date: 3rd Mar 2022 @ 7:33pm
As part of our World Book Day celebrations we came to school dressed as our favourite book character. We were all very excited as we had all kept our costumes a surprise until today! Our classroom was full of lots of book characters, including The Gingerbread Man, The Three Little Pigs, Mary Poppins, Willy Wonka, Harry Potter and Hermione Granger! Lots of effort was made and everyone looked brilliant. Throughout the day we took part in a special quiz and drew and wrote about our World Book Day costume.
Year 1 Continents of the World
Date: 3rd Mar 2022 @ 7:29pm
This week in Geography we began to name and locate the seven continents of the world. We recapped on where we are in the world before beginning to explore a world map. We found which country we live in on the map, before learning that there are 195 countries in the world! We then learnt that we can put the countries into groups and these large areas of land are called continents. We watched our continent song and we were able to name all 7 continents. We then located and labelled each continent and explored the shape of the continents to complete a matching activity.
Date: 3rd Mar 2022 @ 5:44pm
Wow! What a fantstic World Book Day! The children all looked fantastic in their costumes and loved listening to different stories and using the puppets from our story sacks! They also made some book marks and drew some super pictures of their book characters.
Date: 3rd Mar 2022 @ 5:00pm
This week we began our Design Technology journey and looked at a selection of moving toys. We enjoyed exploring how they worked and disucssing the similarities and differences between the different toys. We discovered the reason they all have round wheels and looked at the various ways in which the wheels and axels were attached to each other. We are looking forward to the rest of the journey and creating our own moving vehicles.
Date: 3rd Mar 2022 @ 4:39pm
For World Book Day we all came dressed up as our favourite book charcter. We had all sorts of charcters from a dinosaur to Harry Potter, Alice to Willy Wonka and goldilocks to Mary Poppins! We had great fun guessing each teacher's faviroute childhood book and enjoyed our World Book Day quizz which tested our knowledge of different books. We also thought about our chracter through a piece of writign and created charcter discriptions on who we were dressed up as.
Date: 3rd Mar 2022 @ 4:02pm
As part of World Book Day, we all came to school dressed as our favourite book characters. We had so many different characters including Oliver, Willy Wonka, Alice in Wonderland, Oompas Loopmas and Hermione Granger. Everyone looked fantastic! We also took part in some special WBD activities. We imagined we worked for Mr Willy Wonka and designed our very own magical sweet to be made in his factory. We had to describe what it looked and tasted like using interesting adjectives. In Maths, we continued with the chocolate theme and used pictograms and tally charts to compare the colours of sweets in a Smarties tube. We found out they were all very different!
Date: 3rd Mar 2022 @ 12:55pm
The children have enjoyed dressing up as their favourite book characte. We had some fantastic costumes including Harry Potter, Willy Wonka, Little Red Riding Hood, The Cat in Hat and Goldilocks. The children enjoyed listening and retelling their favourite stories. drawing, painting and writing about their favourite characters and making their own special bookmarks. The children are looking forward to spending their book tokens and getting a brand new book.
Date: 3rd Mar 2022 @ 7:55am
In science we have been investigating how we see and investigating light. We started with a cardboard box and considered what it would be like inside the box. We pierced hole in the box to see if we could see anything and concluded that darkness is the absence of light. We shone torches in the holes in the box to see if we could see any of the objects in the box. We found out that light travels in a straight line so therefore we could only see the objects directly under the torch.
Date: 2nd Mar 2022 @ 8:39pm
We had a great time celebrating pancake day. We watched Mrs Walker cook some pancakes and she did a great job of flipping them! We then chose whether we wanted chocolate sauce or lemon and sugar on our pancakes. We also had a go and flipping some playdough pancakes, played a maths game where we had to put the right number of blueberries on the pancakes and painted some giant pancakes outside!
Date: 2nd Mar 2022 @ 5:31pm
In PE we are currently learning how to play the brilliant game of handball. The game is very fast-paced and action packed, so the children need to have good speed, strength and stamina. We have been developing our throwing and catching skills and learning the rules of the sport. The pupils have to work as a team to breakdown defenses and create spaces in attack to score goals.
Reception Pancake Day- Holly Class.
Date: 1st Mar 2022 @ 8:51pm
Today, Holly Class have been busy making pancakes and choosing our own special topping!
We measured the ingredients then mixed them together before Mrs McAllister cooked them. It was such fun watching her flip them in the pan. Luckily, none of them hit the floor or the ceiling! We then chose our own toppings and filled our faces with the most "sweet" and "awesome" pancakes ever!
"You need eggs, flour and milk" Charlea- Rai.
"Mix it all up in the bowl" Sab.
"Cook it in the pan and then flip it!" Charlie.
"I like chocolate spread and strawberrries" Amelia.
"I like syrup" Oscar.
"Bananas were yummy!" Mercedes.
Reception Pancake Day in Willow Class
Date: 1st Mar 2022 @ 3:01pm
Willow Class have been busy celebrating Shrove Tuesday and making pancakes today. We followed the recipe to make the pancake mix. We need eggs, flour and milk. We worked together to whisk the mix and make sure was no lumps. We had lots of different toppings including strawberries, chocolate spread, lemon, sugar, syrup, bananas and blueberries. The children helped to chop and prepare the fruit using the knives carefully. When the mix was ready Mrs McAllister made the pancakes by pouring the mix into the pan. We waited for it to cook and then flipped it in the air. The children thoroughly enjoyed tasting the different toppings.
"My favourite was the strawberries and chocolate" Indi-Anna
"The syrup is so sweet" Harrison
"I like the bananas best" Leo
Reception The Tiger Who Came To Tea
Date: 1st Mar 2022 @ 2:52pm
Reception have been reading the story The Tiger Who Came to Tea. We have been using the props at the storytelling table to help us sequence the story. We have also been painting tigers, using a rnge of materials at the creative table to make tigers and role playing the story in the home corner. The children have produced some lovely pieces of child initiated writing in continuous provision
Year 4 We want the tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth!
Date: 27th Feb 2022 @ 4:28pm
This half term we are learning all about 'Animals including Humans' in our Science lessons. Our WOW lesson this half term was all about our teeth! What the different types of teeth are and what purpose they serve. We also talked about how different kinds of animnals have different sets of teeth dependent on whether they are a herbivore, omnivore or carnivore.
Date: 25th Feb 2022 @ 8:02pm
On Monday, Year Two began the half term exploring our new Science topic of Electricity! After our first Dance lesson where we will be creating a dance linked to the vocabulary in Science, we completed a carousel of exciting electricity based activities. Whilst some of the children tried to create simple circuits using the resources provided; the other children used static energy to complete a range of tasks. We tried to separate Salt and Pepper using a plastic spoon, stick balloons to the wall using the static energy generated from their hair as well as using balloons to make wings flap on our animal pictures. We all had lots of fun and are looking forward to learning more during our topic.
Date: 25th Feb 2022 @ 5:33pm
On Tuesday 22nd February it was a very important day as it was the 100th day we had been in school this academic year. In Year Two, we celebrated this special milestone with a range of activities. We took part in a whole school '100 quiz' where the questions were all linked in some way to the number 100. Birch were very proud to be the overall winners of this. In Maths, we played games that involved finding pairs of numbers that added to 100 and in the afternoon we had fun with predicting activities. We predicted then measured what 100 drops of water would look like and how tall a tower of 100 coins would be. We had a fantastic day!
Year 5 Animals including Humans
Date: 24th Feb 2022 @ 7:58pm
Our first lesson of Science this term was a recap of 'Animals including Humans' from Year 4. To do this, we investigated food chains and the human body. The children had remembered lots of important things about our digestive system and how to look after it (for example, drinking water and eating food that is high in fibre).
We also started to investigate the focus for this year's learning of 'Animals including Humans', which is to be able to describe the changes as humans develop to old age. The children had to put a series of pictures in an order and explain why they had chosen that order - all of them decided on youngest to oldest. We played a 'Spot the difference' game to see how how appearance changes over time and also stretched ourselves to think about the physical changes.
Year 5 are extremely excited to learn about this topic!
