This week the children have been learning about the Queen, they have been finding out lots of interesting facts, looking at the history of the Queen, talking about her castles around the country and exploring lots of activities including making her a new Buckingham Palace! The children are super excited to be celebrating her 70…
As part of their work comparing New York to our local area, Year Four went on a walk around Baddeley Green and Milton. During the walk, the children completed a traffic survey which was then used to compare to the traffic in a part of New York. After returning to school, the children were given…
What a fantastic day we had at Manchester Airport! The children created their own passports and checked in on the Monarch DC10 where they had the opportunity to climb in the cockpit and use the pilots controls. We learnt about the different parts of the aeroplane and the roles of different people in the airport…
Year One have been using maps, atlases and globes to locate where they live in the world! We know that the UK is made up of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales and we have studied the seas that surround the UK. We have also found out more about climates all over the world, learning that…
As part of our RE learning about special places, Reception visited the local church in Milton, where we went in a treasure hunt to find lots of the special features that you might find in a Christian church. The children thoroughly enjoyed the visit and learned lots of new facts.
This week, Reception read a story called ‘A walk in Paris’. There were so many wonderful features that we learned about including the Eiffel Tower. The children found France on our world map, created their own Eiffel Tower masterpieces, painted French flags, sang Frere Jacques and wrote an information leaflet detailing important facts about France.…
The children researched information about the different layers of a rainforest on the iPads. They found lots of interesting facts including the heights of the trees, animals that live in the different layers and the amount of sunlight each layer gets. Why not ask them what they can remember?
Reception are really enjoying adding famous people and places to our timeline and map of the world. Over the last few months we have learned about lots of different places like Kenya, Thailand and Australia and people including Guy Fawkes, Jesus, Paul Cezanne and St Patrick, amongst others. Some of these people lived a long…
As part of our learning about the Gingerbread Man story, we talked about the route he took when he ran away. We then used a range of ICT equipment to create out own routes. We had to think carefully about where we wanted our Beebots and our bees to finish and then program our equipment…
This week Reception have been focusing on report writing for our alien visitors! We had a think about what kind of animals the aliens would like to find out about and then thought about what we already knew about them. We went home and discussed our chosen animals with our parents before writing up our…