Nursery - Maths - Categorising By Size
In this engaging maths lesson, the children focused on the concept of size by helping our book character, Lulu, with her birthday presents. Their initial excitement involved giving the wrapped gifts a good shake and guessing what might be inside! The main objective of the lesson was categorization by size. The children actively helped Lulu sort all the gifts into two distinct piles: big and small. Taking turns, each child eagerly chose a present and correctly placed it into the appropriate category. To support their learning and vocabulary acquisition, we utilized sound buttons and Widgit visual aids. These resources were instrumental in helping the children differentiate clearly between the terms "big" and "small." The children demonstrated a brilliant understanding of size differentiation and did an excellent job accurately sorting all of Lulu's gifts. This hands-on activity provided a fun, tangible way to reinforce early measurement concepts.
Year 5 R.E. How do Christians Use the Bible?
Year 5 were delighted to welcome Rev Kev to our R.E. lesson this week, gaining valuable insight into how Christians engage with the Bible. Rev Kev thoughtfully explained the practices of reading and studying scripture, emphasizing how the Bible guides his own life and word choices. The session sparked a lively and interesting discussion, where the children posed amazing questions and confidently demonstrated the depth of their learning on various Biblical subjects this term.
Year 5 Art - Making Stronger Marks
This week in Art, Year 5 focused on developing stronger mark-making techniques. Students conducted an in-depth investigation into various pencil types, specifically using 6B pencils to draw and create typography directly over newspaper articles. The primary challenge was ensuring their drawings and writing were bold enough to dominate the underlying text. Following this successful experimentation, they transferred these newly honed skills to plain paper.
Year 4 - Storytelling Through Art
Continuing with Year 4's Storytelling Through Art topic, this week we have made our own sketchbooks, ready for our stories to be drawn in them these next few weeks. Year 4 demonstrated superb listening skills and good teamwork to help each other create a sketchbook each. Year 4 cannot wait to begin putting their practised skills to the test in their handmade books next lesson!
Pre-School - PE - Different Sized Movements
In P.E this week Pre-School have been acting out their story- Goldilocks and the hree Bears. We talked about each step of the story before acting out the action for each step, using big, medium and small actions.
Reception- Music- Getting To Know The Musical Instruments
In music this week the children have been introduced to different music instruments. We listened to the sounds they make and how we can make them have loud and quiet sounds. We can use them fast and slow and using these methods we can play them to different songs. The children each selected a different instrument and we selected different songs to sing. We matched up the song to how the instrument could be played. Twinkle Twinkle was a slow and quiet sound on the musical instruments but The Grand Old Duke of York was loud and fast.
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Year 1 - Independent Challenges
We have had a fantastic week so far completing independent challenges! These vary from completing a 'colour and write' phonics challenge, to building a school using lego!
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Year 1 - Preparing Food Safely
This week we have discussed all things kitchen safety! We discussed how to prepare food safely, how to use equipment safely and why we do this. The children had fun taking turns to cut a variety of food items including bananas, peppers and apples.
Pre-School- PD-Fine Motor Skills-Funky Fingers
On our Funky fingers table this week ,the children have been using their fine motor skills to dress up the bears, selecting different items of clothing. Our Funky fingers table is a great way for our children to have fun while working those fingers.
Year 6: English - To Effectively Describe a Setting.
Year 6 have been focussing on their use of powerful adjectives, expanded noun phrases and relative clauses, to create realistic descriptions of something magical. They have created their own 'Room of Wonders' inspired by the Nowhere Emporium.
Year 6: Science - Voltage
In science Year 6 have been building circuits, with the aim of finding the impact that changing the voltage has on the brightness of a bulb. We made predictions and then tested the accuracy of their thinking.
Nursery - Science - Facial Features, Location And Arrangement
In our combined Science and Art lesson, the children participated in a focused activity designed to enhance their self-awareness and understanding of personal identity and facial features. The lesson began with the children receiving blank face outlines and a selection of individual features—eyes, noses, and mouths. The core of the activity involved using a mirror to observe their own faces closely. This encouraged careful self-examination as they noticed the placement and quantity of their features. They had to decide on the appropriate features and then attempt to translate what they saw in the mirror onto their paper. The children demonstrated excellent concentration and observation skills during this task, correctly identifying that they needed two eyes, one nose, and one mouth. They did a fantastic job of placing their chosen features to create unique and accurate representations of themselves, reinforcing the idea that everyone is unique and special.
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