This half term we will be creating our own ‘Doodlers’ using electrical circuits. In todays lesson we have investigated the ‘Doodlers’ and by taking them apart and trying different ways of reconstructing them. We investigated different equipment and evaluated which items worked best and why. Next, the children will design their own ‘Doodler’ ready for creating them.
KS2 were lucky to receive a visit from one of our governors, Helen Morton, who gave a talk on her career. She presented an assembly on her early career, education, skills required to perform her role and which subjects help with her role. She then organised a workshop for Year 6, where teams of pupils had to promote and sell a piece of software to a judging team, who scored and took averages of Read more
This week, we were reading the story of The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson. We remembered that our last 2 stories were the same author, and even remembered her name. We did some lovely activities around the story: We wrote a list of the characters from the story, dressed as the Gruffalo, made some Gruffalo faces using collage materials, made masks and shape owls, hunted for the Gruffalo at Forest School and even completed some Gruffalo Read more
Today we have been comparing physical and chemical changes. We recalled our knowledge of what a physical and a chemical change is. We investigated the similarities and differences between the two and how we could define them. We also used a venn diagram, linking in with our Maths work, to sort information according to whether or not a new substance was produced, if it was difficult to reverse, if there was a change in appearance Read more
In year 1 this half term we have been learning about structures and exploring how they can be made stronger and more stable. We have been using tools, equipment and different materials to construct a windmill structure. Children have been developing skills such as cutting, shaping, joining and finishing during their Design & Technology lessons.
In Science last half-term, Year 1 learnt all about materials and their properties. This half-term we are using this knowledge for our new topic ‘Building things’. To link with our careers learning, today we had a special visit from Mr Singleton. Mr Singleton is our school site manager and he also used to have a career in building. We learnt all about his responsibilities in his role and how what he did to lead him Read more
Last year our school council set up a link with a local carehome. This week, our new school council re-established their link by visiting the residents with treats and games. The children showed such kindness, respect and maturity. We are very proud of them 😊
As part of our computing topic, we have looked at how to plan a text-based adventure game. We used 2Connect to map out a text-based adventure game based on our current book in English, Hansel and Gretel.
Year 1 have loved having dance this half term. We are learning all about rhythm and tempo and how we can link movements to different themes.
