Making Motifs!
Class Two and Three had a great music lesson where they worked in groups to create motifs. Well done!
Super synonyms!
In English we have been looking at a variety of emotion words for characters in our story “The day the crayons quit.” We used a thesaurus to find synonyms to include in our final letters to Duncan.
Lunar New Year
Class 1 have had a fantastic time finding out all about Lunar New Year. They have made dancing dragons and tried using chopsticks. They know this is the year of the snake.
Retrieval in English
Class Three began their new book in English this week, which is a non-fiction text. The children developed their retrieval skills by locating facts and then constructed their own sentences, using previously taught skills. Some children even incorporated our word of the week -…
Retrieving Facts from Non-Fiction
In English, Class Three began their new book, which is a non-fiction text. We developed our retrieval skills in reading and constructed our own sentences, using techniques previously taught. Excellent work at improving the quality of our writing, some children even incorporated our word of…
Activists in PSHE!
In PSHE, Class Three recognised and valued the contribution that people make to the community. We explored three inspirational individuals and the children wrote questions they would like to ask in an interview to learn more about their contributions to the community. The children then used…
Creating Shadows!
Class Three created shadows in Science this week as part of their learning about light. We explored what a shadow is and how they are formed before describing ways that we can change the shape, clarity and size of a shadow. The children practically investigated what happens to the size of a…
Home learning
Inspired by a non-fiction book “Great women who changed the world” Holly created a poster at home all about Rosa Parkes! Fantastic work!
Reception phonics stars
Reception are working really hard in phonics! They can now read and spell words with some Phase 3 digraphs and trigraphs!
Chiaroscuro
In Art, Class Three learned about the technique, chiaroscuro. We applied this technique to create tone and strong contrasts between light and dark. As we are learning about the Maya civilisation in English and History, the children chose a month from the Maya calendar and created the illusion of a…
How do we see?
In Science, Class Three learned the new term, ‘light ray’ (which we added to our working wall) and built on their learning from last week’s lesson. We used resources to physically represent light rays and learned that light rays travel from the light source to their final point in straight,…
