This week Year 2 revised their knowledge of sentence types and suffixes through outdoor active lessons. We played Formula 1 Suffixes, speeding through an obstacle course to retrieve a route word to take back to our groups, before deciding which suffixes it connect with and working together to spell the new word correctly. We also played calypso corners, in which, a sentence was read aloud to us and we danced along with the music. When Read more
This year for Safer internet day the theme is ‘Want to talk about it? Making space for conversations about life online’. We started the day with an assembly delivered by the digital leaders who shared the importance of staying safe online. They encouraged children to talk about what they do online. In class we then completed a lesson about who we can trust online and who we can talk to if/when something upsets us. To Read more
This week, Year 2 learnt about First Aid as part of our SCARF Learning For Life lessons. We first discussed what first aid is and why it is important. We then labelled a body outline with injuries that a First Aider may help with. We then looked specifically at Asthma attacks and bleeding and what we should do to give First Aid in these situations. Once, we had learnt the skills, we then took turns Read more
In our Learning for Life lesson today, children were able to identify the risk factors in a given situation and consider the outcomes of risk taking in the situation. First of all, we discussed the term ‘taking a risk’ and collated different ideas of how we take risks every day. For example, crossing the road is taking a risk but we manage that by crossing it safely. Children were given a scenario and created a Read more
Children loved looking for fiction and non-fiction books again. They remembered some of the features from last week.
Year 4 had lots of fun today completing lots of number challenges. We really enjoyed answering maths quiz questions to find out where hidden parts of a key were hiding around our classroom. Once we found all the parts Buddy was able to come into our classroom. We also enjoyed playing maths board games and ‘crack the code.’ This afternoon we really enjoyed going outside and taking part in some Teach active multiplication games. Read more
Today the whole school celebrated NSPCC Number day by coming to school dressed as digits and donating money for the NSPCC. We had lots of fun completing different maths activities throughout the day including teach active maths outside. We also enjoyed some maths games with the children from year 5.
A group of children from Juniper have been busy over the past 2 weeks planning some fundraising activities to raise money for the NSPCC. They’ve worked really hard to come up with some maths related games for all the children in key stage 2 to take part in. This breaktime and lunchtime they ran their activities, at 20p a go, to raise money. A big well done to them all! In total they raised £61.40.
Year 5 have had a brilliant day carrying out lots of activities related to Maths, while raising money for the NSPCC. We began the day by trying to answer some of Jonny Ball’s maths questions. We then carried out Buddy’s (NSPCC’S mascot) key challenge. We then spent some time discussing the different jobs that people do which involve using Maths. As if that wasn’t enough, we then got active and carried out lots of Maths Read more
Children in oaks loved the number fun lessons! We had an exciting few lessons outside where they had to jump over hurdles and find the answer to calculations. The children loved running round and working out these problems. Well done Oaks.