Year 5 English - Drama Skills: Statues to Show Themes
We explored the themes of our novel, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, in English this week. We created 'statues' to show a theme of the story, and the rest of the class had to guess what that theme was. We went on to write an explanation of why that theme was part of the story, using evidence from the text.
Year 5 English - Drama Skills: Freeze Framing
Year 5 used drama skills to act out key parts of our novel: The Invention of Hugo Cabret. We freeze framed a part of the story, and then spoke our characters inferred thoughts out loud.
Year 5 P.E. Hockey Skills
In P.E., Year 5 began learning about hockey skills with some ball control through dribbling exercises. It was a lot of fun!
Year 5 D.T. Food Technology - Cheese Tasting
Year 5 enjoyed tasting different cheeses in DT this week, to choose a good cheese to put in a pie! We rated the cheeses, and created bar charts on Purple Mash to show our results.
Pre-School- PD-Fine and Gross Motor Skills
The children take part in Write Dance to develop their fine and gross motor skills. Moving to music with the ribbons and making up and down movements building on muscle strength. The children move their body into position to hold their crayons to make the movements on to paper. Developing the skills they have just learnt through dancing.
Pre-School-Maths-Take and Give 1,2,3
In maths this week we have been filling Grandma's basket for Little Red Riding Hood to take it to her. The children selected their own fruit and vegetables and then counted them with 1:1 correspondance. We then asked the children to take one item out of each basket and as they did this they needed to count each item and then stop. We then moved to two and three items counting and stopping as we went. Children also counted in number sequence in this activity.
Year 3 English - Identifying Features of A Story
In English Year 3 are enjoying reading the book, The Stone Age Boy. Using chromebooks they read the story in groups and worked together to identify the different features.
Year 4 - Maths - Multiplying 2 Digit Numbers
This week in Maths, Year 4 have been looking at informal methods to help us multiply two digit numbers. To help us, we have also been using base ten.
Year 6: Maths - Ratio and Scale Factors
In maths this week, year 6 have been focusing on understanding ratio, and using scale factors to draw similar shapes.
Year 6: English - Macbeth Character Descriptions
In English this week year 6 have been looking at the characters of Macbeth, and Lady Macbeth - then using what they have learnt to write effective character descriptions.
Year 2 - Maths: Money and PE: Team Building
We have been looking at using money in Maths, counting and calculating with pounds and pence. In PE, we have been focusing on team building and the skills we can use to create better communication in a team and a better understanding of instructions.
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