Curriculum
The Swans are coming to the end of their topic on migration. In order to embed the meaning of some of the terminology, we played ‘Headbandz’! Headbandz’!
Thank you to all the family members who made it to our sharing session today. We made Christingle’s because it linked nicely to our RE topic this half term; Christianity. The Christingle is used in churches as each element represents an idea symbolic to Christian beliefs. The orange represents the world, the red ribbon is […]
In English we have been reading the novel: ‘The Boy at the Back of the Class’ which is about a Syrian refugee child who comes to the UK. One of his school mates, wants to try and make him feel at home so asks his mum if she can buy him a pomegranate as this […]
Over the last half term, Woodpeckers have been learning about rocks in science. We have looked at the three types of rocks; igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic. We found out how each rock is formed and looked at examples of each rock. In English, we have learnt about headings and subheadings, adverbials, adjectives, expanded noun phrases, […]
We drew eyes and reflected our thanks to all the soldiers who fought in the war.
Today, in Science, the Owls learned about how flowering plants reproduce sexually. We dissected flowers and studied them under magnifying glasses to identify all the different parts.
We completed our final Prehistoric art lesson on the term today in forest school; the children created their own cave art hand-prints using both positive and negative art. Well done Woodpeckers!
The Reception children were given the challenge to create a fire engine using recycled materials. They discussed what features a fire engine has and then got busy selecting a box and covering it with red paper. The children added wheels, a light, a ladder, windows and doors. The children were very proud of their fire […]
The children in Kingfishers Class worked together to make bread. The Year One children shared their instructions they had written for making bread with the Reception children. The children listened to the instructions and got busy making the bread. They thought about safety rules – for example being careful with the knife and hygiene rules […]
The Swans had lunch at The Shed in Sproughton to celebrate the end of their WW2 topic. They enjoyed being quizzed by Berty about their topic and had an opportunity to sit inside an air raid shelter and look at the WW2 memorabilia.
The Swans have been learning about refraction in their topic on ‘light’. The learned that refraction is when light travels from one transparent medium (air) to another transparent medium (water) and that the speed the light travels at, slows down when it hits water and changes its direction slightly. This is why some some objects […]
Today in Woodpeckers, the children had a fantastic workshop with Hadleigh Rugby Club!