Year Five have thoroughly enjoyed number day. This morning, we had our number scavenger hunt where we were set the challenge of using the numbers we had come to school in. We found prime numbers, square numbers and used the numbers to answer a series of tricky questions. Throughout the day, we have also been…
This week the children’s learning has been based around the nursery rhyme ‘The Wheels on the Bus’ we have enjoyed creating our own buses and talking about where we have been or would like to go, drawing pictures of people on the bus and having a go at labelling them – listening very carefully for…
Year Six had a busy week last week. We started our new science unit, ‘light’, by investigating how light travels. We made models of how this happens by using string, a torch and an object. Children were then challenged to consider, and model, how we see an object through a mirror by showing the direction…
This week we celebrated Earth day in Year Five. We considered a range of different ways in which pollution is caused alongside some of the impacts. We also explored the range of possibilities regarding how we recycle and introduced the idea of up-cycling, where we innovatively use products which have already expired into something completely…
Reception have had a lovely first week back, learning about some very special days. On Thursday, we learned all about Earth day and what we could do to help to restore our planet. The children came up with some fantastic ideas such as picking up litter and recycling it. We also learned about what we…
Year Four have enjoyed learning about and celebrating Earth Day by carrying out a fieldwork survey of different areas of the school to see how much humans have impacted on the environment and whether these impacts have been positive or negative. We then started to look at biodiversity within our woodland and were set a…
The children in Nursery have been enjoying lots of activities today to think about the different ways that they can help to save our planet. They have been sorting recycling, exploring the sea pollution bottles using magnifying glasses and magnets, rescuing endangered species and creating a collaborative colouring to make our own Earth poster. The…
Year One have had a brilliant week starting their topic work about the Great Fire of London. They have located London today using atlases. First they found Europe, then the United Kingdom and then labelling the four different countries and their capitals! (See if they can remember the country we live in and its capital!)…
The children in year two have been learning about poverty on Earth Day. They heard the stories of a child from Afghanistan and a child from the Democratic Republic of Congo whose lives are very different than their own. To help understand, they role played fetching the water from the river whilst enduring scenarios such…
For Earth Day, Year Three have been busy finding out about where the products we use every day come from and locating these countries on the map. They have also learned about Fairtrade and why it’s so important to communities across the world. They enjoyed quizzing each other on their new knowledge using their Fairtrade…