Reception have been learning about the festival of colour, Holi. To celebrate the festival, we have had a messy play afternoon today. We all went outside and chose different coloured powders to throw onto the floor and used chalk to create beautiful colours and patterns. We shouted “Holi Hai, Holi Hai” whilst doing this. Reception have loved celebrating the festival of colour.
This half term we are looking at 3D Art and sculpture as part of our Art topic. In this lesson we used cardboard to construct a sculpture and thought carefully about what 2D and 3D shapes would fit together no how to ensure they could stand up. We used out problem solving skills and growth mindset to create the sculptures with our partners.
We have been exploring strengths in different structures. We used card to make cylinders, triangular prisms and cuboids. We tested the structures by putting one book at a time onto each structure before it collapsed. We found that the cylinders were the strongest because they don’t have corners. This experiment will help us when we are going to design and make a chair for baby bear.
Children really enjoyed manipulating the paper to create 3D sculptures. All of them looked fantastic and very creative indeed!
This week we have been talking about ‘being my best’ in our SCARF lessons. We read a story where a girl called Ruby was going to give up. So we all thought of some nice messages to encourage her to keep trying and not to give up. Everyone then acted out the story and thought about how it is was important to never give up, even if we find something hard.
Year 6 have started a new topic in science ‘energy’. We started the new topic by discussing key vocabulary, exploring energy and looking at the different energy stores, then we conducted an investigation with elastic bands. The children had to investigate how far the elastic band could travel. Children picked different elastic bands including thin ones, thick bands, different colour bands, long and short bands. Then, they predicted which band would travel the furthest and Read more…
Today we had our first forest school session. We really enjoyed ourselves. Here are some pictures of our learning.
We had lots of fun dressing up for World book day and the children all looked fantastic. In English we have been writing a recipe to become an inspirational person like: Mother Teresa, Ru Paul, Malala Yousafzai, Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks. We had some excellent ideas for our writing. This week we have started a 10 minute reading activity where we picked a book and read it with our partner. We then discussed if Read more…
In our science lesson today, Year 5 have been exploring with components of electrical circuits to learn about the flow of electricity and how it compares with static electricity. Children were able to identify the different components of electrical circuits and discover the conditions for electricity to flow which makes the components work. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the practical activity in which children made lightbulbs light up, buzzers make sounds and made motors’ spin. Children also Read more…
We had a fantastic day for world book day. All our costumes looked amazing! We took part in a Teach active lesson where we looked at persuasive letter features. We then wrote a letter in role of Sir David Attenborough, a courageous advocate, trying to persuade St Luke’s School to make us their role mode. We also took part in BBCs live lesson.