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Exploring settings... Outdoors!
Date: 29th Jan 2020 @ 3:00pm
We went on a settings hunt in the outdoor area... we found trays of water and a picture of a river!
We dipped our fingers in the water and gently moved our fingers through it "splash splash!"
"I can make waves, I moved my arms to make waves."
We looked at the picture of the river "The water looks deep!"
Date: 29th Jan 2020 @ 2:33pm
We found the tray with signs all over it that said, 'Please do not touch.' There were wellies and shoes and aprons too. We had to work out how we could play with the toys without touching.
Can you think how to do it?
Look at the pictures to see how we were able to play without getting messy. The children said, 'It's sticky and muddy and it's yucky.' 'Stick, squash.' 'Squish, squelch.'
Exploring Our Classroom - It's snowy!
Date: 29th Jan 2020 @ 2:21pm
We're going on a settings hunt. We're going to find new ones. Tiptoe, tiptoe...
Look what we found today in our classroom! The children touched the snowy shaving foam, moved it around and then they told us what it feels like. 'Snow like cream' ' Round and round. Wooooooo' 'Squish, squash' ' I think it's like shampoo'
It's messy playing with shaving foam so you have to wear an apron and remember, 'It gets on your hands and it comes through your fingers. Then you have to wash your hands.'
Where did they live in the Stone Age?
Date: 28th Jan 2020 @ 3:09pm
In the Connected Curriculum, we are making our own Stone Age homes. To start the design process we collected ideas. Here are some of the ideas we collected. Come back soon to see our final designs.
Date: 28th Jan 2020 @ 2:11pm
We were busy researching Stone Age houses for our own designs in Connected Curriculum today. It was lots of fun using PicCollage for ourselves!
Date: 28th Jan 2020 @ 2:00pm
This week in maths we are learning written and mental methods for addition of money. Here is a website to help you practise at home.
Date: 28th Jan 2020 @ 12:59pm
Today in English, we used our rally robin technique to generate features of a newspaper report. We are going to be writing our own version over the next couple of weeks and this technique helped us refresh our memories on the features needed to make a good article.
Date: 27th Jan 2020 @ 12:58pm
Well done to 4AR's learning and behaviour stars last week.
Tia won our learning award on Monday for producing some fantastic holiday homework. She displayed lots of great learning skills such as creativity and perseverance to make her 3D model of the Earth.
Jake won our behaviour star for working incredibly hard in all of his lessons. He has pushed himself to share his ideas with the class and he has worked on his presentation.
We are very proud of them both!
Date: 27th Jan 2020 @ 10:39am
Year 5 and 6 maths group have been looking at the language of time.
They have been playing games to practise using the new words.
Do you know how many years there are in a century and a decade ? Ask our maths group superstars for the answer !
Date: 27th Jan 2020 @ 9:00am
On Tuesday 21st January 2020 we had two special visitors into school called Michaela and James. Michaela taught us how to do a dragon dance because we have been learning all about China and Chinese New Year.
I didn't actually know how to do a dragon dance but I do now! Tiwan
I enjoyed it because I really like to dance and it was a new style of dancing for me. Millie
I enjoyed it because I had fun. Neila
Then we went to a ceramic plate painting workshop with James. He taught us how to paint a plate with a dragon and it said Happy New Year on it!
I enjoyed it because we got to paint dragons and we painted a border around it. Payton
My favourite part was when we painted the body of the dragon. Mubaraq
I enjoyed it because we had to paint very neatly so you could still the dragon. Lacey
Date: 27th Jan 2020 @ 9:00am
Year 1 have been reading The Magical Toy Box and we've been practising reading and using many of the great verbs we found in the story.
Date: 26th Jan 2020 @ 11:17pm
We have been busy using our new vocabulary strategies in maths as well as English- words such as -perpendicular lines, parallel lines, bisect, interior angles and diagonals- we used stepping stones to work out the meaning of each word and then we practised sorting 2D shapes into carrol diagrams using these words on the ipads. If you want to check out the game and practise at home log into maths frame and play!
Date: 26th Jan 2020 @ 11:06pm
This week we are practising all aspects of telling and calculating with time.
What is analogue time? What is digital time? How do you read, say and use each type of time?
Use this Maths Frame game to practise all aspects of time. Remember to log in using our school password – check with your teacher if you have forgotten.
Click on the picture below:
Date: 25th Jan 2020 @ 8:26am
Miss Wendt challenged 5HW to create a group 'freeze frame' to depict a different stage of a human life. Each group had to keep their stage secret, MIss Gallery and the rest of the class had to guess each one!
Can you guess?! The different stages are newborn, toddler, child, adolescent, adult and senior. Which image matches each stage?
Date: 24th Jan 2020 @ 8:10pm
Happy Friday!
In 3RH, we love to praise outstanding behaviour and this week we have had a couple of children on 'outstanding' for just that, so thought we'd share!
Well done to Casey-Leigh who - as well as always doing the right thing - has been working so extremely hard on her handwriting and consistently showing a resillient attitude!
Well done to Lorenzo who, similar to Casey-Leigh, has tried so hard with his presentation of work. As well as this, he has become more of an independent learner and did excellent in maths where we were learning about fractions. Super job!
Well done to Amon who has been on outstanding twice this week! Amon created a brilliant non-chronological report on The Stone Age using all of the skills he has learnt in Year 3 so far and researching different topics in depth, creating a brilliant read! Amon was also the behaviour star this week. Well done!
Well done to Shawnakaye who was on outstanding for putting 100% effort into her Connected Curriculum work earlier this week. She was so invested in her work and produced a beautifully presented fact sheet which compared homes from The Stone, Bronze and Iron Age.
Finally, well done to Thomas who worked extremely hard throughout the whole week! He worked independently with all his work including fractions in maths and a non-chronological report on The Stone Age in English writing. He was the behaviour star last week so it is great to see a positive learning attitude this week too!
Well done to all our outstanding children!
Date: 24th Jan 2020 @ 7:21pm
We have had such an busy week ððð
First we celebrated the amazing pieces of holiday homework made by the children. There were some fantastic creative masterpieces. Year 5 were visited by the Greeks, year 2 painted plates to celebrate Chinese New Year and Nursery made a Chinese dragon.
Kyro wants a memories page on the school website. What a great idea!
I wonder what memories we will make next week????
P.E Skills with Dan the City Coach
Date: 24th Jan 2020 @ 5:24pm
The children have enjoyed working with Dan. They have been learning how to; move around the hall and negotiate space, think of different ways of moving and work together as a team. The children have really enjoyed playing stuck in the mud and can't wait until next Monday when they will learn some new games.
Date: 24th Jan 2020 @ 4:41pm
In Year one this week we have been developing our drawing skills. We have been learning about how to use shapes and use shading to draw toys. We looked closely at some photographs of toys and then 'had a go' at drawing them. It was really tricky to measure the length of the head and body and then add shading to create a 'furry'effect. We really enjoyed the challenge. The hard work really paid off !!!!!
Date: 24th Jan 2020 @ 4:26pm
Congratulations to this week's Behaviour Star... Nathan! Well done on making a super effort to improve this week.
Date: 24th Jan 2020 @ 4:14pm
Well done to 4AR's learning and behaviour stars this week.
Tia won our learning award on Monday for producing some fantastic holiday homework. She displayed lots of great learning skills such as creativity and perseverance to make her 3D model of the Earth.
Jake won our behaviour star for working incredibly hard in all of his lessons. He has pushed himself to share his ideas with the class and he has worked on his presentation.
We are very proud of them both!
Do you know what a Bolang gu is?
Date: 24th Jan 2020 @ 3:49pm
We found out that a Bolang gu is a Chinese pellet drum which is a traditional instrument. We created our pellet drum using tubes, plates and beaded string. Take a look at how we made ours. Can you make one at home too?
We also practiced writing Chinese numbers. One of the children said, 'This one looks like a man jumping!' When they saw the number 6.
PARENT CHALLENGE: If you can draw a Chinese number at home and bring it in to school, your child can have a house point.
Date: 24th Jan 2020 @ 3:44pm
This morning we received a note from the dragon. He wanted us to make him a body! He left us a box of resources but no instructions so we had to work it out for ourselves.
First we had to make the scales, painted with Chinese numbers and words. Then we had to make a body by stuffing scrunched paper into a pair of tights! (We think the dragon used his mum's tights). After that we used the stapler to join the ends of the paper plate scales together. Finally our teachers joined the scales together and onto the body because that part was too tricky for us.
It's been such hard work making him but we loved it. Miss Wolfenden said, "Wow, it's amazing!" when we showed it to her. Look at the surprise on her face.
Outstanding children from week beginning 20-1-2020
Date: 24th Jan 2020 @ 3:18pm
A hugh congratulations to this week outstanding children.
Jensen and Elijah - For outstanding consontration and work ethic in big maths,
Alesh- For outstanding work in maths, never giving which has improved her maths and her confidence.
Date: 24th Jan 2020 @ 2:58pm
This week in year two we transformed into weather reporters!
First of all we compared the weather in the United Kingdom to the weather in China. It was similar because in both the U.K and China it is warmer in the South than it is the North. However in China, the weather can be very different in different parts of the country as it is such a large country. This was something different that we found out.
We watched a video of a weather report on the news. Then we used the green screen to turn into weather reporters ourselves, reporting on the weather conditions in China. It was so much fun. We were a little bit embarrassed at first but then we started to grow in confidence. Some of us used very fancy voices!
Date: 24th Jan 2020 @ 12:23pm
This week in Reception, children have loved learning about Chinese New Year! We turned our home corner into our very own Chinese resteraunt, where some of us dressed up in Chinese clothes and practiced using chop sticks! Throughout the week, we have danced like dragons, created Chinese laterns, wrote our names in Mandarin and even learnt some new words! We practised counting from 1-10 and sang Happy New Year songs in Chinese!
Here are links to the songs we have been learning!
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