As part of our Geography topic (fieldwork), Year 6 visited Queen’s Park to conduct a field sketch. The children looked at how and why geographers conduct field sketches before they went out to do their own. The children used OASIS (orientation, annotation, sight, information and scale) as a key to Read more…
In Geography this week we have been learning the capital cities in the United Kingdom. We then went outside, and with the help of the map on the playground, we drew our own UK using chalk then labelled it. We also played some fun games to help us to learn Read more…
Year 6 Sycamore welcomed parents and family into our shared learning this morning. We were able to discuss our latest geography topic, Local Fieldwork, as well as the persuasive letters we wrote as part of our English unit. The letters and fieldwork, a traffic survey we conducted outside of school, Read more…
After noticing high volumes of traffic whilst walking St Luke’s church, Year 6 conducted a traffic survey to investigate how busy the road was outside of school. After some alarming results, the children decided that it would be a good idea to write letters that could be sent to parents, Read more…
This week we were very excited to have some parents and carers come and join us. The children showed off their writing that they have been doing about seasons. We then talked about the signs of autumn, winter, spring and summer. The children then worked with their parents to create Read more…
Today, we welcomed our adults into school for our shared learning and lunch. The children were very excited to show our learning and take part in an activity with them. As we have been learning about seasons this half-term, we performed our seasons song and showed them our English books, Read more…
Year 1 have worked really hard and shown great improvement in their writing this half-term. We began by learning all about sentence structure and then read the story ‘A walk in the woods’, which is a picture book about children walking through the woods as it changes through each season. Read more…
In geography, we have been learning about weather. This week, we watched weather reports and discussed why they are important. We also learnt symbols that are used to show different types of weather. Then, we became the reporters. We used language such as North, South, inland and coastal to act Read more…
This week we have celebrated recycling week in year 2 by completing fun activities around recycling. We discussed why this is important and we coloured in a picture to remind us of how we can take care of our world. We then went outside and cleaned up our playground by Read more…
We used the bins to recycle all sorts of different objects today! The children discussed what each object was made out of and then put it in the correct bin.
