Year 6: Maths - Theme Park Challenge
As year 6 come to the end of their journey at primary school, they are completing a team challenge which uses all of their English, Maths and team work skills! The challenge is to design, advertise and budget for a working theme park.
Year 1 - Geography - To Create a Map
Following on from last week, Year 1 used the physical and human features found in their fieldwork to create their own maps. Using aerial views of our local area and lots of resources from around the classroom, the children constructed a messy map. After this, they labelled their own maps, remembering the human and physical features they had identified.
Y1 - English - To Write a Prediction
Year 1 started their new English topic this week, The Last Wolf. The children went on the hunt for a wolf after Mrs Murray told us there had been reports of one on the loose! The children gathered clues, including a red cloak, an apple, a bin bag and a log. Using these, the children wrote a prediction of what they thought our story eould be about.
Year 2 Science: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Year 2 have started a new topic in Science about plant-based materials. We have deepened our knowledge of sustainability by considering the 3R's: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Miss Mulligan was extremely impressed with the creativity shown during the "trash to treasure" activity, where the children chose a piece of rubbish to redesign into a new useful product. Plastic bottles became bird feeders, cardboard boxes became bug hotels, old tights became teddies!
Year 3 - Maths - Finding Right Angles
Year 3 have been turning into maths detectives this week! The children have been exploring geometry by searching high and low for right angles right here in our classroom. Equipped with their trusty right-angle testers, they have been checking everything from the corners of their books to the edges of the whiteboard. It has been a fantastic way to bring our shape and space topic to life and see how maths connects to the world around us.
Year 3 - Science - Planning An Investigation
Year 3 have been busy working like real scientists this week! The children are currently planning an exciting investigation to find out if there is a link between our hand span and our grip strength. They have been discussing how to make it a fair test, predicting what might happen, and deciding how to measure their results accurately. We cannot wait to get hands-on with the testing phase next week and see if our predictions match the data. Stay tuned for the results!
Year 5 PE
In our PE lessons, we have been learning and practising our cricket skills. During one of our cricket lessons, we learned a new game. Everyone in Year 5 became very competitive and had lots of fun playing it.
Year 5 Picture News
In our Picture News lesson, we learned about Boyan Slat. Inspired by seeing plastic pollution while diving as a teenager, he founded The Ocean Cleanup to remove rubbish from the oceans and prevent more plastic from reaching rivers and seas. We discussed the importance of protecting our environment and how everyone can help reduce plastic pollution.
Year 5 Maths
In our maths lesson, we looked at decimal sequences and practised multiplying numbers by 10, 100 and 1,000. We explored how the digits move place value columns when multiplying and used this knowledge to solve a range of problems and challenges.
Year 4 History - How did the Maya settle in the rainforest?
A new History topic awakened Year 4's curiosity this week, when we delved into the civilisation of the ancient Maya. Building directly on our previous geography topic about the rainforest ecosystem, the children were able to make brilliant real-world connections to understand exactly how this ancient civilization thrived.
Reception- Continuous Provision- Web of Work
We have had a very busy week in Reception class. Our story this week has been all about spiders and the children have been so creative with their work. Accessing all areas of the classroom and outdoors. Making spider webs on the windows using gross motor movements with the print brushes and water. Learning how to draw a spider with step by step instructions and watch it come together. The children have used the play dough to make a spider come to life with pipe cleaner legs and googly eyes. Of course a spider needs a web and that's when our imagination took over designing a pattern web on paper with paint and sequins.
Reception- Maths- Positional Language
This week in Reception we have been developing our understanding of positional language. We created a spider scene and asked the children to place a spider on the blocks. We then took turns using positional language to point out where the spiders were. The children used language such as in front, behind, next to, under and on top. As the week has gone on the children have used this language in their play to describe where objects have been.
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