This week in writing, our writing group were learning all about speech marks and when to use them in our writing. We learnt that speech marks are used to indicate what has been said. We open what has been said with a speech mark and...
Key words/phrases for this half term are: Week 1 - Estoy cansado. I am tired. Week 2 - Estoy emocionado. I am excited. Week 3 - Tengo hambre. I am hungry Week 4 - Es hora de casa. It's home time! Week 5 - Es tiempo de juego. It's playtime! Week 6 - Es la hora del almuerzo. It's lunch...
This week in history, the children were learning all about the Mayan leader: Pakal the Great. They explored the details shown in a range of sources of evidence and asked questions about what they could see. The children also discussed the reliability of the sources -...
Year 5 have started the topic of decimals in maths. First we used place value charts to represent numbers with two decimal places. Using concrete counters helped us to secure the knowledge that 10 hundredths is equivalent to 1 tenth and 10 tenths is equivalent...
In history this week, year 4 have been looking at the diet of the Vikings. We thought about what resources were available to them and what tools they had that they could use to hunt and gather. We then used this information to create our...
In maths this week, Year 3 have been combining their skills of using the column method for addition, measuring in centimetres and millimetres and working out perimeter. We worked as a group to measure the lengths of sides on squares and rectangles. We used our knowledge...
During maths we have been looking at multiplication and division. The children have been using their knowledge of the 10 x tables to solve division maths problems. Here, you can see they used unifix towers of 10 to help them solve the problem. [gallery ids="16964,16965,16966,16967"]...
This week, Year 1 have been learning about facial features in Science! We learnt that we all have the same facial features, however they all look slightly different on each person. First, we identified facial features on a range of pictures (secondary sources). We looked...
This week in Reception our highlight has been seeing our daffodils bloom after all our hard work of planting and watering since the Autumn. Children carefully observed how the plants had changed over the most recent weeks and then did close observational drawings of the...
This week in Nursery, children created a painting of a ‘hog’ by using handprints and paintbrushes. We chose to create a ‘hog’ as it is one of the characters from our core text ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ by Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks. We explored...