All about Ross Hashanah. This half term, we are exploring all the festivities that are celebrated by people who belong to the Jewish faith. Year Three made a ‘shofar’ which is blown to signal the start of the new year.
Year Four have been busy this week considering why rivers are important to humans, and how they can be used. They considered travel, a food source, power, drinking and other ways that rivers have been important, even for the ancient civilisations.
We are learning about multiplying 2 digit number with 1 digit number. We had to use concrete resource first (Base 10) then use pictorial to embed our learning first. We had lots of fun in the process.
In PSHE, the children have been labelling the parts of the body. They tried to use more grown up language than they have used in the past. They will use this language when they go on to looking at how our bodies change through the human life cycle in science.
Since commencing the beginning of the year, we’ve been mesmerised by our learning in science where our focus has been Earth and Space. Here the children created a model of the planets in our solar system which identified the change in weight and sizes of the planets.
Year One have been thinking about London now and then as part of their History learning about the Great Fire of London 🔥 They had to study pictures for clues and sort them according to whether or not they were old pictures or current day. They then had to use their maths understanding to help…
This week, Reception have been reading the story of Little Red Riding Hood. Following on from that, they have created their own maps of the forest that Little Red Riding Hood travelled through. We discussed the Tyrone of features that might be included on a map and they included houses, trees and the path way.
Year Three are discussing and identifying forces that acting on objects. They have used Freeze frames to demonstrate their learning and make the rest of the class guess whether it is a pushing or pulling forces.
Year Four have been using hot seating to explore the characters from their English text ‘A River Ran Wild’ by Lynne Cherry. This is also supporting their science and geography work on rivers, habitats and changes to environments.
This week we have been learning about doctors and how they can help us. We have read the story ‘Going to the Doctor’ and talked about our experiences of seeing the doctor. We have looked at the doctors equipment and what they do, then practised with it in our doctors surgery, lots of children have…