Reception and Y1 - Guided Reading
Reception and Year 1 have been developing their early reading skills. They have been applying their phonetic knowledge to help them decode the words in the book and they have been working on improving their fluency when reading. The children have really enjoyed these interactive reading sessions and have used the Chromebooks to use the ebook feature, this has been a real hit too!
Pre- school- Physical development- Catching and throwing
In P.E the children have been learning to throw and catch small balls. The children started at a short distance throwing balls to each other and then moved further away from each other to make longer throws. The children showed great understanding and skills in our lesson and worked well together.
Music in Year 2
Year 2 have been exploring making simple tunes using the glockenspiel.
Year 2 Art - Exploring Colours
Year 2 explored primary and complementary colours in art this week using different materials to create six collages.
Pre-school- PSHE- Me and my friends
PSHE- Me and my friends The children listened to the story of Elmer and Rosie. Within this story the children discussed their friendships and how they like and dislike different things. We talked about who we were friends with at nursery and at home. We discussed how we have similarities and differences between us. The children created Elmer the elephant of their own and talked about how everyone had created different ones.
Year 2 Religious Education - Church
Year 2 RE - Year 2 went to visit Church to look at the special features it had. We found things like the altar, font and stained glass windows.
Year 4 Maths - Finding Fractions as Decimals
Year 4 have been working on decimals this week and finding their fraction equivalent. We have been using place value holders to find tenths and hundredths of an amount.
Year 1 - History - Sir Francis Drake
in History, Year 1 have been learning about Sir Francis Drake. In these photographs, the children are using the vocabulary they have learned about life aboard a galleon to produce posters.
Year 5 English Lesson - Role Play - Fnishing a Piece of Writing
Today in our English lesson we have been reading the story of The Fantastic Flying Book of Mr Morris Lessmore. We role played finishing a piece of writing and notes. How we would finally finish our writing; final full stop, put the pencil down, check over it and then close the book.
Nursery Class - Computing - 'Where's Spot?', Designing A Puppy.
Nursery class has been working on Purple Mash to design their own puppy after reading our story 'Where's spot?'. The children selected the fur pattern they wanted and used their hands to create different marks on their puppy stencil.
Reception Class - Handwriting
Reception Class have been working hard on their letter formation through our Letterjoin scheme. They have been learning the rhymes to help them with their formation and sharing their work with a friend, talking about how their letters look and if they have been formed correctly.
Reception Class - 3D Models
Reception class have been busy creatign 3D models using the available resources. Using the skills they have been learning they have been cutting, joining, sticking an linking together different 3D materials to create rockets, ships and telescopes!