Y4 Spelling Game
Year 4 enjoyed playing a spelling game to practise spelling words that have the ‘s’ sound but are spelt with an ‘sc’. They took it in turns to choose one of the spelling words, write it on a whiteboard then rolled the die. If they could complete the ‘roll a word task’ with the word they had…
Extended Writing in Year 2
Year 2 have been learning how to write a biography. This morning they listened to Baroque music from the 1600s as they independently wrote a biography about Samuel Pepys.
Y4 Volcano Animations
Year 4 have been creating exploding Volcanoes on 2 animate. They had to create a series of slides progressively showing a volcano exploding. They were then able to play an animation of the volcano explosion!
Y4 Haiku’s
Year 4 have been writing Haiku’s about Volcanoes. They learnt that a Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry that uses very few words but tries to draw a picture in the mind. It has 3 lines, rarely rhymes and follows a pattern of 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second and 5 in the third. They…
Taller or shorter ??
Year one have taken advantage of the glorious weather and taken our maths lesson outside. We were drawing pictures that were taller or shorter and larger or smaller. We labelled the pictures and even drew around our friends to measure. We really enjoyed our outside lesson and hope this weather…
First gymnastics session
Reception took part in their first gymnastics session today. They learned how to perform some of the basic moves and shapes such as the star, pencil, pike, straddle and the forward roll.
Cricket
Year 5 enjoyed improving ther cricket skills with Chad to help them. It was a lovely sunny day!
Chinese New Year workshop: Making concertina dragons
The dragon is a revered creature in Chinese culture with paper dragons being commonly seen at Chinese New Year celebrations all around the world. The children had lots of fun making their own concertina dragons.
Reading rewards
Well done to all the Reception children who earned a stripe on their reading rainbow by reading five times or more at home this week. Keep up the good work and let’s see who can fill their rainbow with stripes to win a prize at the end of term.
Story Map Editing
We have had a great time learning our story Billy’s Bucket. We have made changes to the maps and are now writing our own versions.
Floating and sinking experiment
We have had a great time trying our experiment into will it float?
We got lots of items and predicted if it would float. We tested our theory and recorded the results in our books.
Making Dragons
We have thoroughly enjoyed making dancing dragons as part of our Chinese New Year celebration day. We even had some time to make our dragons dance to some traditional Chinese music.