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Date: 16th Feb 2023 @ 11:30am
After reading our story Somebody Swallowed Stanley we wanted to do what we could to help the sea creatures who might be hurt by rubbish in the ocean!
The Eco Team in school came to visit us and told us all about how we can help by making posters to raise awareness. We thought hard about what we could write on the posters, and independently made our very own to put up all around the school!
Good work Reception!!
If you want to read our story at home, you can find it here: Somebody Swallowed Stanley [Children's story | Read Aloud] - YouTube
Date: 16th Feb 2023 @ 11:10am
Happy Valentine's Day!
We had a great time celebrating Valentine's Day by painting our beautiful cards and baking and icing some yummy love heart biscuits! Then we invited our grown ups in to celebrate with us and did some valentine's colouring together!
Date: 16th Feb 2023 @ 9:59am
This week in maths, we have been looking at the properties of 2D shapes and 3D shapes. We then began looking at the nets of 3D shapes and matching the nets to their shapes. On Wednesday, we made our own 3D shapes from nets.
Date: 20th Jan 2023 @ 4:10pm
This week has been very exciting in 4CB.
On Monday, we explored rainfall and the uses of water. We then worked in table groups to create rain gauges - we will be using these throughout next week to measure just how rainy Manchester is. A common prediction was that it will rain that much, that the gauges will break!
On Thursday, we went on a school trip to visit the River Medlock. Although it was icy and snowy, we really enjoyed observing the river and identifying the different features we had already studied in class.
On Friday, we had a special visit from Mrs Hughes. Over the past couple of weeks, we have been working extremely hard at creating a persuasive letter. Some of us wish to keep the egg that we found a couple of weeks ago, in hopes of a mythical creature hatching - whilst others want to get rid of the egg. When Mrs Hughes visited us today, we shared some of our letters with her - she took the rest away to read. The final decision on whether we can see if it hatches or not, will be Mrs Hughes' and we are all eager to hear thoughts.
In golden time, Tyrese and Aghana worked very hard at making a tower out of pencil crayons. They hope to one day make a tower as tall as Mr Leverton! And asked to share their progress on our class blog.
I wonder if next week will be just as exciting?
Date: 20th Jan 2023 @ 4:03pm
What a fantastic week we've had in year 5. In writing, we have been trying to give the children a bit more freedom in what they can write and their resulting myths have been outstanding. It was such a pleasure to mark their work! I couldn't take my eyes off their stories, their battle scenes were so exciting! We went down to year 2 to read them to the younger children. It was so lovely to see the year 5s being so kind, caring and respectful with the smaller ones while the year 2s listened beautifully and answered lots of questions about what was exciting in their stories.
In maths, we have been learning about division and nearly the whole class now understands and can use the bus stop method! Although, some a still a little reluctant to practise it because they're not quite confident yet.
And in ICT, we learned about the binary code today and how it is used to transfer data to the mars rover. They had a go at this game which was really interesting! https://games.penjee.com/binary-numbers-game/
Have a lovely weekend 5CR!
Date: 20th Jan 2023 @ 1:25pm
Today we did some amazing dancing to celebrate Chinese New Year!
We learnt about the Chinese celerbation and learnt a peacock dance using colourful fans with our friends.
Then we got to use the beautiful umbrellas and masks to do our very own chinese new year parade!
When we came back to class we drew some beautiful pictures of the things we had seen, and got to write some chinese numbers!
Date: 20th Jan 2023 @ 12:34pm
This week Reception have had a great time exploring our new story The Storm Whale in Winter and learning lots of new words and skills from the book!
We talked about a special word 'island' that the story used to describe where Noi and his dad lived. We looked at some pictures of islands and talked about why we would love to visit one! We also talked about how we would get there, and knew that because and island is surrounded by water, we wouldn't be able to walk or drive - we'd have to fly, swim or sail a boat! We then went outside and made our very own island with materials we could find. We loved swimming in the sea and sunbathing on the land!
Then we decided to join Noi's dad in his job, and learnt how to fish! Ms Fowler helped us to make our very own fishing rods and we practiced catching fish in the sea!
Date: 20th Jan 2023 @ 10:29am
What a chilly end to to the week!
Today, year 4 visited the River Medlock which flows through Phillips Park. This is a part of our CC learning, and we had a look to see if we could spot any meanders or pollution. We heard the water swaying and flowing, squirrels and birds in the trees, saw lots of rocks and trees! The river was surrounded by trees and near many public spaces. It was quite icy too, so we were extra careful!
Date: 19th Jan 2023 @ 10:27am
On Tuesday we took a trip ack in time to the Stone Age! We went on a coach to Tatton Park and learned all about how people from th estone age lived. However, it was SO cold that we could have been back in the Ice Age!
The children had a wonderful time learning all about the Stone Age and how people lived. They used tools to plant seeds to grow a harvest, make a fire and cut down apple trees. They also used their team building skills to build shelters. The children put all of their knowledge toegther to learn how eventually people stopped moving around to hunt animals and began to build stuctures to keep animals in, becoming farmers.
Thank you again to our parent helpers! We loved having you come along with us.
Please enjoy these photos of the children getting involved with their learning!
Date: 18th Jan 2023 @ 9:20pm
The children were so excited to see the snow this morning and were eager to get out and explore the signs of winter.
The children spent time talking about the clothes they needed to wear and how they would be safe when walking in the snow. They discussed how the floor might be slippy and icey and decided that they would walk really slowly to keep themselves safe. They also talked about the cold weather and decided that even though the sky was blue and sunny scarves and gloves and coats were definitley needed.
Together we wrapped up warm and stepped out into the cold morning. We listened carefully to our footprints crunches in the snow and felt how the grass felt hard under our feet. We touched the snow with our fingers and searched for frozen cobwebs and sticks. The children loved exploring our winter wonderland playground and had a great time playing in the snow.
When we finally decided our fingers and toes needed warming up we headed inside and all had a nice cup of hot chocolate together to warm our bones.
The children then spent the rest of their morning busy in the classroom making shopping lists so that they could make hot soups in the home corner, drawing winter pictures of snowflakes and snowmen and chatting about the winter weather.
Date: 17th Jan 2023 @ 8:43pm
Little Penguin thinks he can fly. He waddles as fast as his legs can carry him, he flips and flaps his wings but still he can't fly. What can he do that's just like flying?
Here are some of our penguins. Click on the link to listen to the story we have been learning about
https://youtu.be/zTbucK0e-Lw
Date: 17th Jan 2023 @ 8:30pm
Last week we were practising our subitising skills, instantly recognising if we could see 1 or 2 (and sometimes even 3!)
This week we have been thinking about the words we use to describe groups of objects. We discovered the words 'more' and 'fewer' help us compare quantity in groups of objects.
Date: 17th Jan 2023 @ 8:17pm
After going on a Winter Walk last week we created poetry based on what we saw. We're sure you'll agree that we have some budding poets in Nursery.
After reading the poem can you find a photo to match?
In Winter
In Winter you have to wear a warm coat with a hood.
All the leaves fell off the trees.
We saw a bush that we think has died.
Oh! There are still leaves on one of the trees.
They will stay on the tree - it is evergreen.
We think the seeds are gonna grow into something.
by Nursery
Date: 17th Jan 2023 @ 7:57pm
Today we carried out science experiments to free some penguins that had become trapped in ice. We though about different ways to free them. Each key worker group though of one idea each:
- Tap the ice with a hammer.
- Use a hairdryer to heat up the ice and melt it.
- Melt the ice with warm water.
- Leave the ice block out in the sun to melt the ice.
"I had to pour some hot water on top of the ice and, you know, the ice began to melt. You know it wouldn't work with cold, only hot." Beau
"We had to tap,tap, tap to get the penguin out of the ice. It took a long time." Lucy
All of our experiments worked, except number 4. It was too cloudy today.
Date: 15th Jan 2023 @ 8:57am
On Thursday, we had a special visitor in school who let us play lots of fun maths games! We had to work collaboratively and listen to each other to maths solve problems, in teams. We really enjoyed the activities because they were so much fun! Have a look at the games we played!
We have asked if we can have the brain train game to play in school because it was so fun to match colours and patterns!
Date: 15th Jan 2023 @ 8:43am
Hello,
As you know the children are learning about Scott of the Antarctic and have been finding out about The Antarctic. They have enjoyed learning about the climate and watching videos about what it is like. They have studied the animals that can live there and have found out that Penguins can live there because they can live in extreme cold and eat Krill! As part of their art lessons they have studied photographs of penguins and looked at their colour and shape. The children used their knowledge of shape to sketch the penguins and then used colour and shading to add texture and detail. Look at all their hard work !
Didn't they do well!
Date: 15th Jan 2023 @ 8:43am
In computing we used the Beebots again! We reminded ourselves how to use them and made some videos to explain to our friends.
Look at the videos attached and how clear the explanations are!
Date: 15th Jan 2023 @ 8:22am
Hello,
Well it has been a very busy week, this week. We have been so lucky and had lots of visitors in school to make our learning extra special! This week we have particularly enjoyed games with Chiara, the City Coach. She taught us how to find a space and move around the hall safely, using a range of movements. As a class we decided to move like elephants, lions, monkeys and giraffes. It was very tricky because we had to make sure that we didn't bump into each other. When we had practised this, we played a game. it was so much fun, we can't wait until next week!
Date: 14th Jan 2023 @ 10:05am
On Monday, Mrs Brierley found a lost teddy in the playground! The teddy looked old but we knew someone would be upset without him. To help find the owner, we decided to make 'found' posters to display around school to see if we could find the owner. In writing, we practised using adjectives and superlatives to describe him because we wanted to write a good description of the bear. By Thursday, we had completed our posters with written descriptions and displayed them around school. On Friday afternoon, Miss Riley came into our classroom asking about the bear because she had read our found posters! We were so happy that our posters helped the bear find it's owner and that Miss Riley was so happy to have him back too!
Date: 13th Jan 2023 @ 3:40pm
Today we have had an amazing and very busy challenge Friday.
The children were busy all day completing their independent challenges and practicing their writing linked to the story 'the storm whale in winter'.
The children were so excited to show their grown ups their challenges that they have all brought them home, check their book bags to see their amazing learning.
Date: 13th Jan 2023 @ 2:04pm
We did an experiment on solids, liquids and gases.
In writing we've been writing a persuasive letter to Mrs Hughes
In maths, we've been working on fractions.
We have been reading 'The Water Horse' in our class reading lessons.
In P.E. we have been developing our underarm throw.
In swimming we had races to improve our swimming speed.
In English we were writing about the mysterious egge we found.
In CC we are learning how to survive without water.
In CC we are learning to save water
In writing we are working on a final draft of a letter.
In music we composed a soundscape to represent different bodies of water.
We completed a problem solving workshop with the 'Happy Puzzle Company'.
We went for a swimming lesson and some of our confident swimmers used fewer swimming aids.
In CC we looked at river banks and a flood plain.
In CC we learnt how a lake gets to the sea.
We've learnt about improper fractions.
In our assembly we learnt to never give up.
We had a spelling test and improved on my last scoreIn science we we grouped different materials.
In maths we learnt to convert improper and mixed numbers.
We have read 3 chapters of 'The Water Horse'.
We developed our knowlede of what fractions are.
We learnt Spanish names for colours.
In science we compared different states of matter.
Date: 13th Jan 2023 @ 12:21pm
This week in our Connected Curriculum learning, Reception have been looking at a new famous artist Kandinsky. We loved looking at his pictures and thinking about the shapes and colours he used.
Inspired by his use of circles in his art, we decided to make our own circles, but chose to use 'cold' winter colours blue, black and white! We experimented with colour mixing to create different shades of blue and made some amazing paintings.
We then used what we had learnt with our paintings to make a huge piece of art using blue, white and black materials!
Well done Reception! :)
Date: 12th Jan 2023 @ 4:30pm
Today, we were really lucky to have a session with Tom from the Happy Puzzle Company as a reward for all our hard work in maths.
The focus was on teamwork and year 5 really did do us proud! They worked beautifully together, making sure that everyone had a chance to take part. Some of the puzzles were a little tricky to complete but their perserverance and determination paid off. We played genius star where we had to fit blocks into the spaces on a star shape around some blockers. Then we had a go at matching patterns using some coloured star blocks or a train with shapes to arrange accurately. Finally, the children had to follow some clues to identify where the 'treasure' was hidden on a map of smart town using coordinates.
Date: 11th Jan 2023 @ 2:36pm
This week we have been busy sorting shapes according to their properties: parallel lines, perpendicular lines, lines of symmetry and angles.
Play the game below to practise all of the vocabulary and properties we have been discussing in our lessons...
