In Humanities this week, Year 1 have been locating where they are from on a world map. The class have also been finding out where their families are from and where they would find these on a globe. They now know the 7 continents of the...
This week in Reception, the class have been focusing on close observational painting. They observed different pumpkins and squash and improved their painting skills. Later in the week the class built on their previous learning about shapes with 1, 2, 3, and 4 sides by...
In Nursery this week, they have been looking at the Hindu festival of Diwali, a festival of light for their RE lessons. The children familiarised themselves with the story of ‘Rama and Sits’ and explored the different ways Hindu people celebrate the festival. One way...
Year 6 had a brilliant time at Dalston library, as part of a Windrush Workshop with Autograph Gallery. The children began by working with a poet to write poems about Hackney and what the borough means to the children. They used figurative language to describe the borough, notably...
Year five have started learning all about forces in their science unit! The completed a range of scientific exploration activities in a carousel. They were investigating pushes and pulls, contact and non-contact forces, which recapped their year three learning all about forces and magnets. ...
As part of an introduction to their new geography unit, 'Italy and Volcanoes' Year 4 took part in an interactive Geobus workshop this week. The children were led through a series of activities based on the formation of rocks that lay under the Earth's surface....
Here is Year 3 hard at work creating word banks for our writing describing a Stone Age setting. We're using our expertise in the Stone Age, together with our knowledge of expanded noun phrases and adverbs and our senses to create really exciting word banks. ...
In year one this week we have been exploring our new text Femi the Fox; A Pot of Jollof. We used our best acting skills to retell the key events in our story and thought about how the characters were feeling at each part. ...
This week in Reception we went on an adventure with positional language. Our text 'Rosie's Walk' inspired us to go over, under and through with our resources, while moving through the school and even as we chased Peter Rabbit after he 'escaped'. As the weather...
The next SJSJ PTA meeting will be on Friday 12th November at 9.15am in the School Library. You can also join via Zoom; a link will be circulated beforehand. On the agenda - Christmas fundraising activities and making plans for next year. Please come along and have your say! Thank...