This week Year One went on an adventure to Thorndon Country Park. We were very excited to be travelling by coach. When we arrived, we were able to partake in a variety of activities, including den building, dancing and learning how to be a woodland...
This week, we have been learning to write a set of instructions. The children made a cheese sandwich for Grandma and then wrote the corresponding instructions. Then, they orally composed a set of instructions for Little Red Riding Hood to follow to get to her...
This week in Nursery, we were looking at our Big Question for Geography – ‘What is a map?’ We started off by looking at different maps and even found our school using Google Maps. We talked about what things are important to have on a...
This week in maths we have been learning about long and short. At the beginning of the week, we investigated long and short dinosaurs. Later in the week we combined our maths skills and throwing skills to see who could throw their bean bag the...
In the Meadow this week, we have been making papier-mâché dinosaur eggs. Children used balloons to layer newspaper covered in PVA glue and smoothed it out with their fingers or a brush. Some, children did not like their hands being dirty and were constantly washing...
This week Year 6 have been very excited as the stage has gone up! This now allows us to fine tune our performance. We have been very impressed by how many children have already learned all of their lines. They have been rehearsing the songs...
This week, the children have made great progress in developing their mechanical toys using cams. They created a prototype before interviewing children from Year 1 to research what toy design would be most effective. The children then created a cross sectional diagram of their design...
This week in Year 4, the children have been learning to identify and name acute, obtuse and right angles. Through practical activities, they explored how angles appear in everyday shapes and patterns, giving them the chance to apply their knowledge in a meaningful and hands-on...
This term we will be creating our own stop-frame animation movies. We started by making our own flip book, before using Lightcut and Stop Motion Movie applications. We learned how to use the editing tool ‘onion skinning’; a technique used in 2D animation where multiple...
This week in music we have been using the glockenspiels to compose our own accompaniment to a song. We have learn a song about friendship and practised improvising to create different riffs. In pairs we discussed which notes we would like to use and listened...