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Super Sculptures
In our artwork we have looked at the work of sculptor Antony Gormley. His sculptures are in the shape of humans. We decided to make our own sculptures using shapes and objects to make a human shape.
Call the Mini Police!
A terrible crime was committed in school yesterday, someone stole the attendance trophy from Year 5! Luckily the Mini Police were on hand to solve the case. With the help of our friendly neighbourhood policemen Daniel and John, the mini police team taped off the crime...
Newsletter 20.01.23
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The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Nursery and Reception have been learning about Traditional Tales. We have been focusing on The Three Billy Goats Gruff. We re-enacted the story using story language, built a bridge out of Duplo, blocks, bricks and crates and we created a collage of the Troll....
Invasion Games
Year 2 have made a great start to their PE lessons this half term. They have been trying hard to develop their understanding of invasion games with our coach and learning the basic principles of attacking and defending. Today we practised throwing, catching and...
The Big Bad Wolf 🐺
As part of our English unit ‘Traditional Tales’ we have been reading the story ‘The Three Little Pigs.’ This morning the big bad wolf paid us a visit and made a very big mess of our classroom! The children took part in some oral retelling and ordering the story today...
Out and About!
Year 2 went on a walk to explore the local area where we live. On the way, we talked about what we could see and made notes of the types of houses , bus stops and other features that we found. Back in school our job was to become map makers of our local area.
Exploring Shape
We have been exploring shape this week. The children have been learning to identify and name common 2D shapes, such as, circles, triangles, rectangles and squares. We made robots using 2D shapes and we went on a shape hunt around school.
Julia Donaldson
This week we are learning all about the Author and Poet ‘Julia Donaldson.’ Today we have been researching her work and choosing our favourite rhyming book. We then used her website to research key facts and learnt some makaton for the Gruffalo song!
Sounds vs Distance
Today, as part of their ’Sound’ topic, Year 4 investigated how the distance from a sound source affects the perceived volume of the sound.They thought about their previous sound knowledge, made predictions, worked out their method and how to keep their investigation...
Exploring tints and shades
The children in Year 3 have been learning about Vincent Van Gogh in art. They are working towards creating a painting in the style of his very famous sunflower paintings. Today, they focussed on how to create different shades of yellow by adding black and white. They...
Amazing Arrays
Today, Year 4 began their new maths topic- multiplication and division.They started by recapping how to show multiplications using arrays. We then discussed what factors were shown by each array and how we could work systematically to find all the possible factors of...