Month: February 2020
Street Art!
Year 8 were working through their sketchbook this week. Today they were researching about street art, and learning more about Slinkachu, who is a British street artist. He is best known for his Little People Project series, which consists of remodelling and repainting miniature figurines which are then installed and photographed in public places.
Nursery
Acorns and Pippins have started their jungle theme! The children were thrilled to find the new jungle jeep and tent and all of the animals to play with. We made paper plate tigers and elephants and some amazing paper chain snakes. In Forest Fun we searched for multicoloured snakes and read snake stories and we…
Year 2
We have had a busy week as we begin our new topic. We have begun to find out why the Great Fire of London was so devasting, and why the fire was able to spread as quickly as it did. In our literacy lesson we used adjectives, nouns, adverbs and verbs to write a short…
Birthday Celebrations!
Lamar celebrated her birthday this week with a great panda cake made by her mum. All of Year 4 enjoyed it and thought it was very tasty!
A Few Good Men
‘I want the truth!’ ‘You can’t handle the truth!’ It was tense in Drama this week as the pupils acted out the famous court scene from ‘A Few Good Men’ starring Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise. The pupils played their characters so well, shouting and throwing chairs!
DT
Year 4 had an exciting lesson in DT where they built robots out of Lego and programmed them to fight one another! The pupils were coupled up, working as a team to build the ultimate fighting machine. All of the robots were then put to the test, with Aiden and Ethan’s robot winning the first…
Forest School
Year 3s Forest School challenge was to create a collage using natural objects from around the woods. Idris, Shile and Aarav worked well as a team to produce this brilliant star!
Reception
Reception had great fun making and flipping pancakes on Shrove Tuesday. The children were fascinated that we had a gas hot plate in the classroom and wanted how the oil made the pan non-stick. They chose lemon and sugar and chocolate buttons as fillings and rolled their own pancakes … yummy! We started our introduction…
Harry Potter
The pupils are studying Harry Potter and in this lesson, Year 5 were becoming poets, emulating the regular rhyme scheme and structure featured in a poem in the chapter ‘The Sorting Hat’. They are writing in quatrains and have learnt to use resources such as a thesaurus and the speed sounds they use in spelling…
Maths!
This week Year 3 practised their numeracy skills through playing Sumdog. Sumdog is an adaptive learning program which is engaging, fun and challenging!