During art lessons, Year 4 have been learning different painting techniques. Today the children drew their own still life drawings using every day objects and then they painted their drawing using their chosen technique. Both their drawings and paintings were very impressive.
This week we are learning about people who help us. We have been learning about people such as doctors, nurses, fire fighters, vets and police officers. This afternoon, we have carefully planned and thought about a vehicle they might need. For example ambulances, police cars, fire engines etc. Everyone has then worked together to create their own vehicle. We thought carefully about which bits of modelling would be best for the wheels, the siren, the Read more…
Children loved exploring the library today. They learnt about fiction and non-fiction books and went to go and find these types of books. We found lots of information in the non-fiction books. We also looked into the features that make a non-fiction book (contents pages, labels, photographs etc)
During forest school, year 6 have been making rafts. Today we went down to the river at Queen’s Park to race our rafts. We had lots of fun and the children worked very well in their teams.
Children in year 6 worked in groups and pairs to complete a number hunt, focusing on adding and subtracting decimals from TeachActive. They worked very well as a team and did not stop running. Well done year 6.
Today, the whole school celebrated Children’s Mental Health Week by coming to school wearing their clothes inside out. This lead our learning about talking about our feelings on the inside and how we keep good, positive mental health. We discussed our 5 ways to wellbeing, and took part in an activity for each of the ways. To CONNECT, we played ‘5 minute friendship’ in which we paired up with someone in the class that we Read more…
This week in forest school we have been using outdoor materials to make a cross. This is going to be part of a hall display for the Christian value – forgiveness.
Today, the whole school celebrated Children’s Mental Health Week by attending school in non-uniform but wearing their clothes inside out. This lead us into discussions about the importance of understanding feelings, not being afraid to show our feelings, that how we look on the outside does not always reflect how we feel on the inside and that it is okay not to feel okay. The children also took part in a number of activities throughout Read more…
We have really enjoyed learning about 5 ways to wellbeing in year one. For ‘connect’ we created pictures including a drawing of someone we wanted to connect with at home, we wrote compliments and adjectives to do describe them. The children then took them home and gave them to their chosen person. For ‘Be active’ we did the wiggle dance and got our heart rates pumping, this made us feel really good! We ‘took notice’ by Read more…
Children loved working out number bonds on their ten frame. They worked hard to solve the problems and write the calculations in their books.