This week, Reception have continued settling into their routines and exploring their classroom. They have been engaging in lots of mark making activities including drawing self portraits, writing their names and writing all about Elmer the elephant from their key text. [gallery ids="9768,9769,9770"]...
Nursery have had another fantastic week settling in classroom routines and exploring the different resources available. They have made the most of the lovely weather and are confidently exploring the great outdoors. [gallery ids="9759,9761,9762,9763,9764"]...
Inspired by Frida Kahlo, Year 5 have been using water colours to paint their self portraits. They have been using their knowledge of colour theory to create complementary, contrasting and harmonious colours which create an atmosphere. Children needed to mix appropriate colours using watercolours to...
This week, Year 4 have painted their portraits. They created their own colour wheel mixing two primary colours together to make a secondary colour. They then created tertiary colours by mixing two secondary colours. We then choose one tertiary colour to create tints, shades and...
This week, Year 3 finished their self portraits. They all look incredible. The children pretended to be in a gallery and looked at each other’s artwork as part of our evaluation lesson. In pairs, the children reflected on their completed portraits with a peer identifying...
This week in writing, Year 2 we have continued to take inspiration from the text,’ Someone swallowed Stanley’. We have been finding adjectives to make our writing more descriptive. We know adjectives are describing words like sizes, feelings, appearances and colours. We then added them...
In maths this week, Year 1 have been practising counting a collection and identifying ‘how many’ in the group. We then moved onto comparing amounts to identify which group had more and how did we know. [gallery ids="9647,9649,9650"]...
Reception have had a fantastic start to the new year. They have been busy learning class routines and settling into their new classroom. They have been busy getting creative, and have been using wonderful language to describe what they have made. [gallery ids="9638,9639,9640,9642,9643,9644"]...
The Nursery children have got off to a brilliant start this week, exploring their new learning environment and meeting their new friends. The team have been incredibly impressed with how they have been taking turns and sharing resources. [gallery ids="9630,9631,9633,9634,9635"]...
At Morningside, we aim to instil a life-long love of reading in all our children. As a result, we ask children to read at home every night for 20 minutes. This week we learnt how to complete our reading records. We will endeavour to complete...