This week, we have been focusing upon developing our sketching skills in Art. We have been looking at paintings by Henri Rousseau, who liked to paint pictures of jungles. We also discussed how to use our pencils very gently against the paper when sketching. We...
In year 6 this week we have been honing our arithmetic skills. We have been learning how to use the expanded method of short division to help us when we move onto long division. In art we have continued to develop our drawing skills, copying...
This week, Year 4 have been improving their hockey skills. They have learned how to hold their hockey stick correctly and use it safely. In the photos, you can see them having fun practising their dribbling and passing skills. [gallery ids="17395,17396,17397,17398,17399,17400,17401,17402,17403,17404,17405,17406,17407,17408"]...
This week, in Year 2, the children have been exploring how the numbers 6, 7, 8 and 9 can all be composed of two parts where 5 is one of the parts. The children used the rekenrek to represent 5 ‘and a bit more.’ [gallery ids="17387,17388,17389,17390,17391,17392,17393"] ...
This week we have started to make a diarama each. First choosing our favourite colour to decorate it with and using a range of tools to spread the paint. Next week we will continue to build these up with our favourite things and a lovely...
[gallery ids="17356,17357,17358,17359"] This week we have started to write in our very special English books. This is where we will do the work about all the stories that we are learning this year. We were very excited to draw and label our favourite character from The...
Imagine our surprise when we walked in the classrooms on Monday…. someone had been in our classes and made a terrible mess! It was a mystery! We looked for clues and made some traps to try to find out who or what, made the mess....
This week in Year 4, we've dived into the exciting world of character descriptions! We’ve been discovering how to reveal a character’s personality through their actions and words and how they express themselves. The highlight of the lesson was when the children re-enacted the magical...
This week we started our Talk for Writing unit on Nursery Rhymes. The first rhyme that we looked at was 'Humpty Dumpty'. On Monday, we went outside to find that an egg (Humpty Dumpty) had fallen off the wall and had cracked. We discussed what...
This week in English, we have started our new unit based on Meerkat Mail. To start our unit, we had a look at Andy’s Safari Adventures and created our own minibeast diagrams using a paint app on the computers. We explored and presented facts about...