In maths, year 5 have been learning how to find change using the most efficient and reliable strategy when purchasing several items. They understand how money is made up, how to add and subtract multiple amounts to find their change and solving real life problems. [gallery...
Year 6 have showcased some of their fantastic writing skills. This week they were focusing on using topic sentences, with conjunctive adverbs, to link to previous concluding sentences. Conjunctive adverbs are cohesive words or groups of words that connect one sentence to another. They can be...
This week, Nursery have loved drawing shapes on pumpkins and scooping out the seeds. Look at their amazing creations. In maths, they have been learning to subitise numbers to 6. Subitising is when you are able to look at a group of objects and realise...
Reception had a lovely time on a walk to the local park. We looked for signs of autumn. We sorted leaves and even saw squirrels collecting nuts. When we came back to school, we wrote a list of all the things that we had seen....
Year 1 have been showcasing their creative skills this week creating collages. This week they have created landscapes taking inspiration from the two artists they have studied this term, Matisse and Beatriz Milhazes. They used their skills of cutting and tearing to make different shapes...
Year 2 went on a brilliant trip to the Neasden Temple, BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir. The temple is a traditional place of Hindu worship. The children gained knowledge of Hinduism that could not have been achieved in the classroom. The temple and the gardens were...
This week in maths, year 3 have been using their knowledge of place value to represent three digit numbers in different ways. One way was to use a Gattegno chart. The children partitioned the number into ones, tens and hundreds. For example, the number 342...
Year 4 had a fantastic time at the Woodberry Wetlands. They learnt about different animal habitats and closely observed some different creatures. Activities include pond dipping – using nets and trays to explore aquatic habitats; minibeast hunting – looking in the woodland habitats to discover...
This week, Year 5 have begun to write their informal persuasive letters. They are inspired by Floella Benjamin's experiences on 'Coming to England' in the 1950s. She experienced relentless racism from the other children in her school and was extremely unhappy. Year 5 are writing...
Year 6 went to the Woodberry Wetlands and really enjoyed spotting different birds. They were great with binoculars and found some really interesting things! We have also been working hard in maths, using cuisenaire rods to represent multiplicative and additive relationships. ...