Science
Permeable?
Year 4s Science topic this half term is ‘Rocks.’ We looked at a range of metamorphic, sedimentary and igneous rocks and conducted an experiment to see if they were permeable or not.
Art & Design
Making marks
Year 4 looked at a range of different printing techniques to create a piece of collaborative art.
Anti- Bullying Ambassadors
Anti-bullying assembly
Last week was ‘Antibullying week’ The theme this year is ‘ make some noise.’ The antibullying ambassadors held an assembly to speak to both KS1 and KS2 about this years theme and what they can do if they feel like they are being bullied or if they think someone else might be being bullied.
Design and technology
Cookery Club – Week 3 – Toasties
This week in cookery club we made cheese and ham toasties. The children followed the recipe and built their sandwich before using the toastie machine to toast them. The smell coming from the classroom led to lots of hungry teachers wanting a toastie for tea.
Religious Education
What is Christmas?
In RE this half term, we are looking at different festivals. Today we looked at the question: What is Christmas? The children shared what Christmas means to them and we also discussed why Christmas is important to Christians. The children worked in groups to act out the nativity and then worked on sequencing the story.
Careers Related Learning
Healthy eating
Last week for Design and Technology we discussed our favourite food then we drew our favourite meal. Afterwards we swapped our meals with a partner and they had to use the checklist to identify the food groups they included in their meal and any that they didn’t include. We then worked with a partner and became restaurant owners. Wearing our chef’s hats, we then created a menu with three meals trying to create meals that Read more
Geography
Capital cities
In Geography this week we have been learning the capital cities in the United Kingdom. We then went outside, and with the help of the map on the playground, we drew our own UK using chalk then labelled it. We also played some fun games to help us to learn the names and where on the map they are. We played a memory matching game and a game where we had to drag and drop Read more
Drama
Acting – The 3 Little Pigs
Year 1 are starting a new writing unit based on the story ‘The 3 Little Pigs’. Today we explored the story by reading it, talking about the vocabulary (including nouns, verbs and adjectives) and discussed ideas of how we could improve the story using our fantastic adjective ideas. We then had lots of fun acting out the story in groups.
Art & Design
Mixing colours
In art this week we talked about how a colour can be lots of different shades and hues. The children collected lots of things that are green. We discussed the shades of green and how we can use yellow and blue to make these shades. The children then made some handprints using different greens they had made.
Computing
Super Spreadsheets
Juniper have been working hard to create some spreadsheets this afternoon. We used the letters of the alphabet as our variables. The counting tool helped us to identify which vowel was used the most in our text and the frequency that the consonants were used.