This week the nursery have been sharing and reading their favourite books. Children have been repeating words and phrases with their friends. They have also been finding letters that their names start with. [gallery ids="7718"]...
This week, reception have been inspired by Vincent van Gogh and created a whole class Starry Night painting. We discussed primary colours and how we mix these to make secondary colours. We then used white paint and dark colours to lighten or darken our colours....
In writing, our new genre is interviews. We know that an interview is where two or more people have a conversation, asking questions and giving corresponding answers. We will be basing our interviews on Amy Johnson as we are reading the text, ‘Little Wings’ which...
In maths this week, we were investigating the relationship between multiples of 5 and 10. We were looking at how many groups of 5 were in groups of 10. We then applied our learning to problem solving involving 5ps and 10ps. For example: Kate has...
This week in maths, year 3 used Dienes to refresh our understanding of place value. We started with one digit numbers and worked up to three digit numbers. Now we’re ready to start building on this knowledge and learn strategies to add three digit numbers. [gallery ids="7696,7697,7698"]...
In science, our new topic is electricity and this week we have been learning about conductors and insulators. We were learning that electrical current flows well through some materials, called electrical conductors, and poorly through other materials, called electrical insulators. We experimented with different objects...
In computing, year 5 have been using the Crumble Programming Software with the Crumble microcontroller. We have been creating simple circuits to connect the physical hardware with the software on our laptops, which has enabled us to write our own set of codes to control...
In PSHE, we’ve been thinking about our goals for the year, and how we can ensure we reach them. We decided that lots of goals can be met when they’re achievable, and they involve skills that can be practised. [gallery ids="7680,7681,7682"]...