It was lovely to welcome the children back to nursery this week, and also some new children to the class. Our focus this week has been rhyming words. We practised finding rhyming pairs such as dog and frog. One of our favourite activities this week...
Reception have been incredibly creative this week taking inspiration from their key text, ‘Blue Penguin.’ After reading the story they have written information booklets about penguins. Did you know that penguins are expert divers? We then created our own blue penguin using different media, plasticine...
In maths this week, year 1 have been naming, sorting and comparing different 2d shapes. We looked at how many vertices and sides different 2d shapes had and named shapes based on these properties. The children are now confidently able to recognise and name triangles,...
In writing, year 2 have started their new genre of writing instructions. They have been inspired by their class text, ‘Man on the Moon’, to make their own version of Bob’s favourite lunch, which was a delicious cheese sandwich. Next they will write the instructions...
In Geography, year 3 have been learning about human geographical features and human landmarks. We pretended to be geographers and identified human landmarks in the UK. We needed to research each landmark and answer some questions such as when was the landmark built, who built it,...
Year 4’s new writing genre is non-chronological reports. We will be writing about elephants. Before writing we need to research some interesting facts that we can include in our report. We used iPads to research some facts. Did you know that elephants are scared of...
This week in maths, year 5 have been learning that area is the measurement of the surface of a flat item. They explored counting as a strategy to find the area of different surfaces. They used cubes to work out the value of the area. [gallery...
In writing this week, year 6 have been learning about multi-clause compound sentences, and started learning how to use bullet points in a list. We will use these features in our non-chronological reports about Charles Darwin later in the term. [gallery ids="7568,7569"]...