This week the children in Nursery have been using their ears to listen to the sounds of different instruments. We listened to a tambourine, cymbals and a maraca and decided to move to the instruments . We then played Ted’s Footsteps, listening to the instruments and moving the correct way to get to Miss Hewitt […]
The children became detectives to spot different word classes within The Great Kapok Tree. Next, they will we looking at how they can improve word choices using a thesaurus.
As part of our PSED and Maths this week, we have been talking about our favourite drinks. We put our choices onto a bar chart so that we could see which drinks were the most and least popular. We counted how many children liked each drink and discovered that apple juice was the most popular […]
Children have been studying personification and figurative language in English. To supplement this, we have looked for inspiration up the woods to help us write our own examples.
The children in Nursery have been enjoying making new friendships, exploring our resources and getting used to the new nursery routines. They are all showing how amazing they are already with fantastic sharing, turn-taking and caring for their friends. Well done Nursery!
The children explored our English text through drama this week, before using their images to write about the events in the story and also the main characters emotions as different points.
In Year Two, we have been learning about fairness. The children shared times that they felt as if something had been unfair and came up with solutions for one another. We then completed an agreement circle about whether it was fair to go to bed at 7:30. Finally, we read scenarios and decided whether they […]
Year One have been practising their dance moves during PE this week. They’ve used the story of The Smartest Giant in Town’ by Julia Donaldson and have followed music, created movements and played different characters during their performances. Can you spot where some of us were being terrified mice while the fire raged around us? […]
This week, Year Five have been learning about applying different powers of ten. They revisited Gattegno charts, something they found very tricky last week, and used them confidently to solve problems involving different powers of ten. Well done Year Five for this fantastic application of growth mindset and perseverance (a word we have been defining […]
In Science this week, we used a ‘special’ app on the iPad to take X-rays of different body parts. The children were amazed by how many bones there are in a human body. After the children were given a bag of bones and had to use all of them to create a skeleton.