Baking Seasonal Tarts!
Well done to Willow for making your seasonal tarts! You prepped your working area, showed great chopping, peeling, grating and scoring skills, tasted new ingredients and followed a recipe all whilst showing fantastic listening skills and an understanding of health and safety. You then also showed…
Autumn days
We have been thinking about the weather and changes in Autumn. We have competed writing, maths and creative tasks linked to this!
Shakespeare Poetry
Oak Class studied Shakespeare poetry in English this week. The children planned, wrote, published and performed their own witches’ brew poems in the style of Shakespeare!
Solutions
Oak Class learned how to identify a solution in science. The children mixed solutes into solvents
and observed the changes that occurred!
French postcards
KS2 finished their unit of learning this half term by writing their own French postcards to a penpal in order to demonstrate their ability to exchange written, personal information! Bien!
Fire Safety
We borrowed a fire safety resource box from our local Fire Station. We discovered how to call 999 in an emergency and found out how important smoke detectors are. We also talked about the dangers of playing with matches. The role play costumes were fantastic!
Conflict resolution strategies
In Oak Class, the children learned about different conflict resolution strategies and considered when each would be appropriate and productive. We acknowledged that we all have big feelings and sometimes this can be difficult, even for adults. The children learned about regulation strategies and…
Year 2 Letters to Mr. Willy Wonka!
Well done to our Year 2 pupils who have written a formal persuasive letter to Mr. Willy Wonka this week. Their letters included four types of sentences: statement, command, question and exclamation.
Lady Macbeth letters
In English, Oak Class proudly published their finished letters. They captured the voice of Lady Macbeth excellently and wrote with the purpose of persuading Macbeth to fulfil the prophecy. The children used modal verbs, rhetorical questions, imperative verbs and even, archaic language! An…
Water filters
Oak Class learned about the process of filtering by building their own water filters using six layers of materials!
Showtime in French!
In French this week, KS2 children developed their speaking skills! The children used this half term’s new learning to create and rehearse conversations - some children even offered to perform in front of the whole class! Bien!
Four and five
This week Reception have been recognising, subitising and sorting images of four and five. Great work everyone!
