Today Pine have take part in a MoneySense workshop as part of our finance week at St Luke’s. Two volunteers from Natwest came to tell us all about their careers in finance and what their job involves on a daily basis. The children worked together in groups, with support from Mrs Grindrod and the volunteers to plan a party, sticking to a budget. There were some excellent conversations about what each group needed to buy Read more
This week, Ms Ali from the NatWest bank came to talk to us about money. We discussed whether we like to save money or spend it straight away. Seventeen of the children in class said they like to save, three like to spend it, and ten like to do a bit of both. Afterwards, we completed three different activities. The first one was looking at ‘wants’ and ‘needs’—we discussed how we need to have food, Read more
During Finance week, we looked at ways to save money, whilst also saving the planet. We looked at what we used energy on every day and how we got this energy. We talked about fossil fuels and renewable energy, how to make better choices such as walking to the shops, drying clothes on a maiden etc. It was really informative and the children loved our visitors from NatWest. They gave us a really good Read more
Over the last couple of weeks, Year 1 have began to learn some French. We have learnt to greet people by saying ‘Salut’ or ‘Bonjour’, learnt how to say my name is (Je m’appelle) and began learning some songs including ones in which we count on French. We are really enjoying our ‘French Fridays’.
This week we have been following Power Maths to add number bonds to 10 and add tens and ones. In our Number sense lessons we have been continuing to focus on facts to 10. We have been using the rekenreks to help us to add ones.
Pine have been learning how to be assertive this afternoon. We discussed the meaning of the word and read some examples of assertiveness. We then looked at some real-life situations that we could find ourselves in and how we would deal with them assertively. We acted out some of these situations and the children came up with some fantastic ideas on how to be assertive.
Today we have recreated Stonehenge. we have been using our shading work to create art pieces.
We have had lots of fun in PE with Mrs Hughes practising football skills. We have been learning how to stop a ball with control using our feet.
We have been really enjoying our Music lessons in Year 4 this half term. We have been learning about motifs in music – playing motifs on the glockenspiels, composing our own motifs and performing our motifs on the glockenspiels to the class.
We are excited to announce that this year’s Recycle Week theme is ‘Rescue Me’. The campaign will run from 14th-20th October 2024, focusing on rescuing recyclable items from heading to the rubbish bin. Eco have decided to send this out to parents and carers so you can post what you have rescued from being disposed of in the tip! Do you give to charity shops/shop at charity shops? How do you recycle at home? Please Read more