This week in Reception we have begun our new core text of 'The Train Ride' and began exploring many different kinds of vehicles, especially trains. Our writing has developed to include consistent finger spaces and using a range of sounds including special friends. The children have...
Our maths song of the week in Nursery is '5 Little Ducks', a nursery rhyme that helps children recognise numbers and teach early math skills. This has supported our learning in maths as we have been focusing on things changing in quantity when something is...
Key words/phrases for this half term are: Week 1 - De nada. You're welcome. Week 2 - ¿Cómo te llamas? What is your name? Week 3 - ¿Cuántos años tienes? How old are you? Week 4 - ¿Qué tal? How are you? Week 5 - Estoy feliz. I am happy. In Year 4, the children recently began their new unit of work: La Comida Sana....
This half term in history, Year 6 have been learning all about the Ancient Mayan civilisation, who once occupied the land that we now know as much of Mexico and Guatemala. They have conducted many independent enquiries to find out about different aspects of life in Ancient...
This week we have been creating observational still-life drawings inspired by Vincent van Gogh. Our drawing skills have progressed, as we practised using single and cross hatching to produce shadow and depth and created a variety of different textures (such as hairy, smooth, rocky) using only...
For Art week this half term, year four were focusing on the artist Paul Cezanne and the Post Impressionist movement. We carefully observed our pieces of fruit and thought very carefully about what tones, textures, shadows and shapes we could see. Here are some of our final pieces! [gallery ids="16730,16731,16732,16733,16734"]...
This week, we wanted to showcase the amazing homework year 3 has completed. To celebate Chinese New Year, year 3 created wonderful pieces of art and gave lots of information, explaining what Chinese New Year is and why it is celebrated. The children represented the...
During our Science lesson, we explored how exercise effects the body and the heart. The children already had a good understanding of the positive benefits of exercise. They all agreed that exercise increases energy and makes us stronger and some children even linked it to...
Year 1 have had a great week this week studying the artist Georgia O'Keefe. We now know that she is the Mother of Modernism and painted some incredible pieces of modernist artwork. We analysed her famous art, practised our skills of colour mixing and line drawing,...
Reception's highlight this week was learning all about Lunar Chinese New Year. We found out the important parts of the celebration like preparing by cleaning and how to celebrate with special dishes and colours. In our continuous provision we used chopsticks, steamers and other tools...