Secret Story Teller in year 4
We have been fortunate in welcoming several secret story tellers into our class over this half term. The children have had a wide range of books read to them and were totally engrossed in the books shared by our different story tellers.
Thank you for giving up your time to share books with…
Year 5 - Safer Internet Day
Today Year 5 have been learning more about how to keep themselves safe on line. The children started the session collecting information about themselves, such as name, address, school etc. They were then asked to share that information with the other children in the class. After a few…
Food Chains
WWBBA: Animals including Humans
S.C: I can draw a food chain - identifying producer, predator and prey.
In Science today we played lots of games, which helped us to understand how food chains work. We played a food chain loop game, where we were each given a card with a plant or animal on…
Class Blogs
I love reading all the class blogs each week.This week I especially enjoyed reading the Year 1 class blog written by Mr Thomas about using the iPads.
This selfie of India and Lucas definitely made me smile!
You can see more brilliant phots that the children took by clicking on the link…
Playground games in Reception Class
This week in Reception we have been enjoying some outdoor PE with a focus on playground games. Playground games help children to develop skills in Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Physical Development and Communication.
The children also had a lot of fun learning some new games.…
Using the iPads
In Year 1 today we have been using the iPads to take pictures and videos. Children were put into teams of two and were given a checklist of different things to take pictures and videos of. Children had to go around the school and use the iPads to record videos of each other, and take pictures of…
Secret Story Teller in Year Two
Secret Story teller
How exciting opening the door this week to 2 secret story tellers! Ellison described it as bursting with excitment waiting for the story teller to open the door.
Both Mrs Jolly and Mr Makinson enjoyed reading to the children and sharing their love for reading.
Who…
Evolution and Natural Selection Science Lesson
WWBBA: understanding evolution and inheritance
SC: understand how animals and plants can evolve over time because of evolution and natural selection.
Today we started to look at evolution. After playing the evolving bird game, we realised some animals DNA mutates changing certain…
Properties of materials
Today Year 5 have have been investigating properties of materials.
They carried out a range of tests on different materials. The children had to investigate whether the objects were hard, strong, flexible, magnetic, transparent and absorbent.
Algorithms in Year 1
As part of out computing curriculum, we have been creating algorithms. An algorithm is a set of commands that produce an outcome. We used ourselves (as robots), a computer program and the Bee Bots to input commands to enable an action. We had to direct the mouse to the cheese, the human robots…
Cheerleading year 4
Yesterday Mrs Smith started our new PE unit on cheerleading…with real pom poms! We created a dance in unison keeping in time to the beat. We are performing our song to ‘Cheerleader’ by OMI.
It was so much fun! Next week we are going to add some cheerleading stunts! Then we will be performing…
Visiting a Synagogue
WWBBA: Living religious traditions
S.C: I can use specific vocabulary to describe key features of living religious traditions.
In year 4 the children used the Ipads to go on a virtual tour of a synagogue in New York city.
The children had to look for different artefacts such as the…