Yesterday in class we learnt about Remembrance Day and why we wear Poppies. We watched a short video and looked at a PowerPoint all about Remembrance Day and made poppy flags by painting apples red and printing them, we had lots of fun waving our flags as we were leaving at home time. We did some great learning and even managed to recall what we had learnt to tell Miss Horrocks about it again, today! Read more
Today, we recognised Remembrance Day. We watched Year 6 do a fantastic assembly via teams in our classroom, took part in the 2 minute silence and created some beautiful art work. We created silhouettes by shading the back of a printed silhouette and pushing the pencil into our art work by outlining, we added hills and Poppy’s before using felt tips and water to add colour.
This half term we have been learning about an author called Julia Donaldson. We have read lots of stories by her and have completed different activities based around the books we read. This week we have read the story ‘The Smeds and The Smoos’ and we have created cards to give to our friends. We can all be friends together no matter what we look like. During choosing time we have been able to make Read more
Remembrance day is a Memorial Day when we pay our respects to the brave men and women who gave their lives in the line of duty. We went through a PowerPoint on Remembrance Day and learnt lots of different things about it. During choosing we made poppy flags using sliced apples and printed using red paint. We enjoyed waving our flags as we left our classroom to pay our respects. At 11 o’clock Read more
This afternoon in Topic we learnt about the role of an archaeologist. We looked at the process they undertake which taught us new vocabulary like excavate. We then took on the role of an archaeologist and excavated various artefacts.
In today’s maths lesson, we had to search for questions around the playground, which related to different things we have learnt. Each answer linked to a letter, which we used to form a word.
This term our topic is Julia Donaldson. Each week we will read a different story written by Julia Donaldson and our first week was Zog! The children learnt what an author was and how we will be looking at the same author each week until Christmas. In the story, Zog tries hard at everything he does and keeps practising if he can’t quite do something, we talked about how he used ‘his rainbow brain’… or Read more
For World Mental Health Day, we all wore yellow. Throughout the day we took part in lots of lovely activities and talked about how it is important to keep our mind healthy as well as our body. We liked that Miss Horrocks called it our ‘rainbow brain’. We did some yoga in the hall and Miss Horrocks was very impressed with how well we all followed the instructions, and in the afternoon we each made Read more
In RE we are learning about Jesus’ life as a journey. We shared important milestones in our lives and discussed why they were important and meaningful as part of our life’s journey. We talked about the difference between secular and religious milestones and and how they might be celebrated in different faiths.
Wow! What a fantastic first half term we have had; we have made new friends, read new books, created, explored and most of all had lots of fun! Some of our favourite books to start the school year were: Rainbow Fish, Owl Babies, The Tiger who came to tea, Dear Zoo, We’re going on a bear hunt and many more… We have lovd taking part in all of the activities surrounding the stories and have Read more