This week Year 4 Maple have been celebrating British Science week and thinking about what it means to be a Scientist. The children each drew a picture of what they think a scientist looks like and unsurprisingly we had a lot of Einstein style drawings. We want young people to see that science is so much more than this and so we discussed stereotypes about who scientists are, what they look like, and what they Read more
For our English lesson today, we had an experience day where we went for a walk in the deep, dark wood. We used the FANTASTICS to collect vocabulary to use in our writing. We discussed what Little Red Riding Hood might see, hear hear and feel and how she might travel through the wood.
As part of our Civil Rights topic, Year 6 looked at examples of artwork that promotes diversity and equality. After discussing different pieces, we decided to recreate Pop Art portraits of Rosa Parks. We used watercolours for the portrait and oil pastels to blend colours for a vibrant background.
WOW! We are overjoyed with the amount of children who completed the science experiment at home last week. There will be a video this week of all your amazing work. Some of our teachers children even completed the experiment at home – see if you can spot Mrs Alderson’s son (Archie). This weeks experiment will require an adult for safety reasons. Did you know you can make water rise without touching it? Nope, it isn’t Read more
This week, Year have been creating art work for the hall display. As part of our Art topic ‘Every picture tells a story’, Year 5 really enjoyed studying the artist Banksy and so we decided to look at some of his most famous pieces in more detail. Banksy’s work is known to convey political messages, therefore, we decided to recreate some of his work with our own message. The message we chose to portray was Read more
We have been learning a lot about our new science topic ‘Habitats’. Our science expert Brody is always sharing lots of interesting facts about animals so he was the first to wear our class lab coat. Each week the child that impressed in science will get the chance to wear the lab coat too. We are looking forward to decorating our coat with pictures to show the different science topics we do in Year 2. Read more
This week at Forest School, Year 5 discussed things we may have done wrong in the past and how we moved on from them. The children discussed how sometimes they have arguments with people and say things that they don’t mean and then feel sorry afterwards. We used role play to model how to deal with conflict in these situations. We linked this to Ash Wednesday and discussed how it is a time for Christians Read more
This week we have been learning about South Africa, our focus has been the story ‘Handa’s Surprise’. In literacy we started by retelling the story using our own character masks. Handa put seven delicious fruit in a basket for her friend , Akeyo. However those cheeky animals took a different fruit and left Handa with a surprise basket of tangerines. We spent an afternoon tasting the different fruits and some of them we had not Read more
This halfterm we are delevoping our music skills and learning how to play the glockenspiel. We have also been learning how to read the treble clef to help our playing. Here are some pictures of our learning.
This week we have been learning about South Africa. Our focus book has been Handa’s Surprise. In Literacy, we have worked as a class to act out the story of ‘Handa’s Surprise’. The children used masks to act as the animals, taking the fruits from Handa’s basket in the correct order, as Handa made her way to visit Akeyo. The children in the audience helped the children acting to remember what order the animals came Read more