English In English this week, we began our unit of persuasive letter writing with a creative hook. For this lesson we had different scenarios, where we had to persuade one person in our group (the judge) to side with us. Scenarios included ‘We should have an...
Music In Music, we have been exploring sound effects using YuStudio. We have been choosing and combining sounds for an underwater scene, including splashing water and bubbling noises. We dragged and dropped the sounds to create a piece of music. [gallery ids="24153,24154,24155,24156,24157"]...
Maths This week in maths, the children have been learning about fractions, focusing on numerators and denominators and what each part represents. They have practised identifying fractions and using the correct mathematical vocabulary. The children are beginning to feel more confident when explaining their understanding. [gallery ids="24124,24123,24122"]...
Year 2 Geography This term in geography, Year 2 have been exploring maps and aerial photographs to help us understand the world around us. We have been learning how places can look different depending on how we look at them—and how maps help us find our...
Design and technology Hedgehog Class have been learning all about Castles. We have been learning how to design and build a Castle. We looked at famous castles and their key features. We then designed our own castles and built them using junk modelling and joining materials....
Fine Motor In Nursery, we focus on a variety of developmental skills for the pupils. Here you can see some of the activities we do to work on fine motor skills. These are skills which involve the small muscles in their hands, fingers and wrists; which...
Cognition and Learning: Maths LO: To begin to find more and less. We have been using our maths skills to find more and less. We used groups of sea shells to practise. As you can see, we worked hard and focussed well. We loved touching and exploring...
Maths in Meadow Room This week, we have continued to work on place value, understanding numbers to 20 and being able to match amounts with the number. Children were also learning about tens and ones and starting to look at how many tens there were in...
This week the children in Year 1 immersed themselves in our brand-new Talk for Writing story ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’! They each took a turn role playing as Jack whilst the other children asked them a range of questions. They thought about what Jack did...
