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News 21.10.2022

21 Oct

What’s happening in Year 6 – Week 8

Over the last few weeks, as part of our Black History Month celebrations, Year 6 have been exploring the country of Sierra Leone, in West Africa. We focused our studies specifically on the capital city, Freetown. Once the children had gained some background knowledge about...

12:07 / Diverse Britain / News 21.10.2022 / Newsletter / Parents / Uncategorised / Year 6 / nbegum
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21 Oct

What’s happening in Year 5 – Week 8

Year 5 had a wonderful workshop from two STEM ambassadors on Friday, who were both hydrologists from the Environment Agency. They were investigating how much water different materials absorbed. The materials they investigated were brick, plants and plastic. They then linked this to our new...

12:06 / News 21.10.2022 / Newsletter / Parents / Science / Uncategorised / Year 5 / nbegum
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21 Oct

What’s happening in Year 4 – Week 8

This week, Year 4 studied Faith Ringgold’s painted quilts to make our own relief prints. We made mind maps about Ringgold before making our own Black History Month art. [gallery ids="10483,10484"] ...

12:05 / Art and DT / Diverse Britain / News 21.10.2022 / Newsletter / Parents / Uncategorised / Year 4 / nbegum
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21 Oct

What’s happening in Year 3 – Week 8

This week in maths, Year 3 have been adding 3-digit numbers. They have been exchanging between the tens and ones column using the column method. They have been using their number bonds and addition facts to help them add ones, tens and hundreds. [gallery ids="10468,10469,10470,10471"]...

12:04 / Maths / News 21.10.2022 / Newsletter / Parents / Uncategorised / Year 3 / nbegum
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21 Oct

What’s happening in Year 2 – Week 8

Year 2 have been weaving in art which have been inspired by the amazing Kente cloth from Ghana. We explored different materials and described how they felt before putting them in different categories. We also looked at different patterns used for African materials. [gallery ids="10487,10488,10489"]...

12:03 / Art and DT / Diverse Britain / News 21.10.2022 / Newsletter / Parents / Uncategorised / Year 2 / nbegum
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21 Oct

What’s happening in Year 1 – Week 8

The children have been working incredibly hard on their art this week. They have used an age old technique called weaving to produce this colourful, inspiring art in the style of the Kente Cloth. You can see the beautiful colours and patterns are reminiscent of...

12:02 / Art and DT / News 21.10.2022 / Newsletter / Parents / Uncategorised / Year 1 / nbegum
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21 Oct

What’s happening in Reception – Week 8

This week in Reception we have been looking at the amazing art form of Kente cloth weaving from Ghana. We studied the different patterns and learned key words to describe the patterns like 'zigzag' 'dot' 'lines' and 'stripes'  As a class we made individual pieces to...

12:01 / Art and DT / EYFS / News 21.10.2022 / Newsletter / Parents / Reception / Uncategorised / nbegum
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21 Oct

What’s happening in Nursery – Week 8

Linked to our literacy core text ‘Lulu Gets a Cat’ written by the author Anna McQuinn, this week in nursery we have a ‘vets’ imaginative area which the children are using to reinforce the learning they have acquired about how to care for different types...

12:00 / EYFS / News 21.10.2022 / Newsletter / Nursery / Parents / Uncategorised / nbegum
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