In our English lessons this half-term, Year 1 have been completing writing based on the book ‘The Storm Whale’ by Benji Davies. As part of our learning, we used the immersive room to experience being on a boat in a storm and we used plot point images to act out the story. The children have produced some fantastic writing including lots of exciting verbs and adjectives, and even similes.
This half term in Year 4, our new topic for music is Rock n Roll! last week we learnt the famous Hand Jive and this week we have learnt the lyrics to Rock Around the clock whilst also incorporating some of our moves learnt from the Hand Jive! We have loving our topic so far!
In Computing we have been creating pictures. We have been looking at the work of Point artist Seurat. We then recreated pointillist art using the Pointillist template.
Juniper have thoroughly enjoyed our Fun Maths Roadshow today. What excellent use they have made of their maths skills. Everyone worked really hard to complete as many investigations as they could. There was some great application of maths skills and fantastic teamwork, wonderful shows of resilience and all round enjoyment of maths. Well done everyone!!!
In preparation for SATs, Year 6 Rowan have been outside completing a scavenger hunt on fractions of amounts. They worked in groups and worked very well with each other. Well done.
This morning we were very fortunate to take part in a maths carousel in the hall with Mrs Grindrod and the Year 5 children. We were able to complete a wide variety of maths challenges within an allotted time. We used our mathematical knowledge to completed the questions. We thoroughly enjoyed working with some of the older children who were our coaches at different activities.
This week we celebrated St George’s Day. It was so lovely to see some children come to school in their Uniform groups uniform. In class we spoke about the exciting opportunities these boys have when being apart of the Cubs uniform group. They told us about the parade they took part in and how much they have learnt being apart of this group.
In music, this half term we are learning all about how and when rock and roll originated. We will be listening to music from the genre, learning dances and using instruments to recreate bass lines in our music lessons. In our first lesson, we listened to different pieces of music and identified what instruments we could hear. We listened for dynamics and tempo and also shared if we liked or disliked the music and why. Read more…
This half term Year 5 will be studying architecture. This week our focus was was observational drawing. We used our observational skills to sketch basic house shapes. We had to look closely at the details and we learnt how to use our pencils to help as a guide for size and position. Later we used parts of our sketchs to create a monoprint using ink paper. The results were brilliant. Well done Year 5.
This week the children really enjoyed the return of our forest school sessions. They had a fun, and very muddy, afternoon exploring the forest school area. They created their own artwork and found the biggest worm we have ever seen 😄