Curriculum News
Drawing – Making Waves
The children became ‘artists’ and began focusing on - Drawing. The children thought about the question - Can we explore line and mark making to draw water? The children recapped over last week’s lesson and identified the lines. The children were shown a range of the...
Story Opening
In English, we are looking at the story of Cinderella. We have learnt skills such as using commas in lists, prepositional phrases and have tried to use adventurous vocabulary. Today we wrote our story opening and tried to include these skills. Here is some of our work...
Owls’ First Day Back
The Owls had a great first day back on Tuesday. We had an immersion morning to launch our new topic on Crete. One of the activities was to make 3D maps of Crete using plasticine. In the afternoon, we did Forest School. The children had a great time feeding the birds,...
Sutton Hoo!
This week we have published our writing; a report about Sutton Hoo. We learnt the need for a heading and subheadings and presenting our information clearly. We found our information through watching short clips, reading books and investigating who may have been buried...
R.E. – Hinduism
In RE, as part of our Hinduism unit of work, we have been acting out the story of The Blind Man and The Elephant to help us understand that there are many ideas about God and they are not all the same. It depends who you ask and what aspect of the religion you look...
Fire Engines
The children in reception created their own fire engine. They discussed what features a fire engine had and why they are important. The children got busy selecting a box and covering it with red paper with Mrs Clark’s support. The children added the features to the...
RE in Woodpeckers
This week in RE, we have been learning all about forgiveness and why forgiveness is an important part of being a Christian. We looked at the story of The Lost Son and thought about what lessons it taught to Christians. We also discussed The Lord's Prayer and why it is...
Clarice Cliff Circle Tree Plate
The children became ‘artists’ and continued focusing on - Painting and Mixed Media. The children thought about the question - Can you apply your painting skills when working in the style of an artist? Miss Jones showed the children an image of a Clarice Cliff’s Circle...
Fireworks
The reception children became artists and used ‘loose parts’ to create a collage. The children were encouraged to use the ‘loose parts’ to create fireworks. Great work Kingfishers.
Maths in Woodpeckers!
In maths this half term, both year groups have looked at place value. We identified what each digit represented in a two or three digit number and could partition given numbers into hundreds, tens and ones.
All about tenses!
This week and last week we have been learning about the simple past and the simple present tense. We found out that regular verbs add the suffix -ed to make them the simple past tense. Some irregular verbs changed completely when talking about the past, e.g. fight to...
Greek Scientists – Hippocrates
Owls' Science topic this half term is linked to our History topic on the Ancient Greeks. We have been looking at Ancient Greek scientists and the contribution they made to our modern understanding of science. This week, we looked at Hippocrates - "the father of modern...
Titanic Biographies
In History, the Swans have been writing biographies about the different passengers on board the Titanic. They loved the creative slant to this task!
Outdoor Art
The Reception children became ‘artists’. The children went on a walk to collect natural objects such as feathers, grass, flower buds or heads, leaves, twigs, pine cones. The children looked at the collection and discussed how they might use the objects to create...
Our Titanic display
The Swans have been writing diaries in role as somebody on board the Titanic. They have also produced some amazing sketches of the ship.
Anglo-Saxons Invade!
Today we reported on the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons, explaining who they were and where they came from. We added a picture, caption and headline to our short newspaper report.
Titanic History
We have been learning about the different classes on board Titanic. The children were given the freedom to present their work however they saw fit - there were some amazing results!
Titanic Science
The Swans have been thinking about how the freezing temperatures affected the people in the water when Titanic sank. They carried out some investigations that compared their fine motor control before and after their hands had been in the very cold water! [gallery...
Learning the Keyboard
This week, the Woodpeckers have been learning the keys on a keyboard, typing up some information about the Anglo-Saxons. They used ctrl a to highlight text, ctrl b to make their writing bold and learnt other 'shortcuts' on the keyboard.
Colour Detectives
The children in Year One became ‘artists’ and started a new unit of work - Painting and Mixed Media. The children thought about the question - Can we investigate how to mix secondary colours? The children listened to the Sesame Street Lego Three Primary Colours. Miss...
Titanic Science
The Swans have been thinking about why the Titanic didn't spot the iceberg until it was too late. We looked at water displacement to measure the volume of the iceberg and the children were able to clearly see how 90% of the iceberg is under the water which is one of...
Large Scale 3D Drawing
In Art, the Owls looked at the work of the sculptor Magdalene Odundo and how she prepared for her sculptors by drawing in 2D but making it look 3D. We had to draw large shapes, using our whole arm. We used lots of overlapping curved lines in different colours to make...
Guy Fawkes Immersion Day
The children in Kingfishers Class began exploring their new topic for this half term. The children received a letter inviting them to a firework party. The children were asked to work together to build a Guy. Miss Jones read the instructions and the children followed...
Ancient Greece Immersion
The Owls had a great first day back at school. We had an immersion day based around our first topic, which is Ancient Greece. We learnt the myth of Perseus and Medusa. We acted out the story and then re-told it as a storyboard. We made our own Greek vine leaf...