In our PSHE lesson this week, Year 5 Juniper have been looking at how everybody is different, the different skills we have, our interests and what makes us diverse. We started by playing a game where we had to swap seats if the command related for us, for example swap seats if you can play a musical instrument. This allowed us to see how different amounts of people have different skills. This led on to Read more
This week our computing lesson turned into a physical exercise activity. This half term we’re learning all about concept maps and the importance of recording information. We demonstrated the idea of a physical concept map using string. We then discussed how difficult it was to remember everybody’s ideas and why it would be easier if we recorded the information visually. We also completed an online safety quiz to refresh our memories on the importance of Read more
Year 5 Pine had their first forest school session of the half term today. We had the perfect weather for a fun afternoon of shelter building and den building. We worked on our team building skills and reintroduced the rules of the forest.
This half-term, Year 1 are learning about the Jewish faith. Today we went on a coach to visit a synagogue. A lady showed us around, and taught us lots about the building, artefacts, and how they worship God.
This week in Year 5 Juniper, we started our new topic called Craft and Design: Architecture. The children this week learned all about observational drawing, scaling, sketching and accuracy. The children enjoyed drawing items from their memory to practice, before they went ahead to draw a house using the techniques they had learned. They added depth to their images by using different pencils. The children really enjoyed this first lesson and can’t wait for lesson Read more
Pine have been learning how to link ideas across paragraphs using adverbials of time, place, number and tense choices. We read through a number of texts and identified the adverbials used, then we tried to order a story by identifying the adverbials.
This week we have been reading ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. We have been reading the story, acting it out and then we planted our own beanstalk.
This half term we will be looking at architecture as part of our art topic. Today the children learnt about observational drawing and effective ways to draw the size of an object accurately. We used pencils and rulers as visual markers for the size of a house. We spent time observing and drawing homes on our street.
This week we have been reading the story, ‘The Three Little Pigs’. Reception have been reading the story, retelling it with their friends and they have been building houses for the three little pigs to live in. We have been learning about different materials and then the children have worked together to build a house for the pigs. The big bad wolf then came to try and blow the house down. Everyone did a fantastic Read more
Pine have been learning all about the Easter story this week and Judas’ betrayal this week. They have created some beautiful artwork.