In literacy this week, we have been reading the story ‘Anna Hibiscus Song’. When Anna’s grandfather is happy, he opens his hands wide and counts the reasons on his fingers. Linked to the story, we created ‘Happy Hands’. First, we drew around our hands then...
Key words/phrases for this half term are: Week 1 - Vacaciones escolares. School holiday. Week 2 - Hace Sol. It is sunny. Week 3 - Hace calor. It is hot. Week 4 - Hace calor y hay niebla. It is hot and cloudy. Week 5 - Felicitaciones. Congratulations. Week 6 - Mucho gusto. Nice to meet you. Week 7 - Cuidate. Take care. Week 8 - ¡Buena suerte! Good...
In our most recent writing cycle, Year 6 planned and wrote contrasting setting descriptions to depict the summer and winter months in the Arctic region. The children used their immersion lesson to take inspiration from our key text: Sky Song by Abi Elphinstone. During the planning...
This week, Year 5 had the opportunity to visit St Augustine's Tower, which is Hackney's oldest building! We started our experience at Hackney Museum, where we learnt about the lives of Hackney residents through history, by investigating artefacts in the 'suitcase stories' activity. We then...
In computing this week, Year 4 have been looking at edited images. We discussed what the purpose for editing images was and why individuals and companies would want to edit a photograph. We also looked at a range of different images to work out what...
This week, Year 3 have been doing lots of research! In writing, they have been gathering a range of facts about rainforests, The Amazon Rainforest and The Amazon River. They used iPads to find key information and noted down facts they thought were important, as...
This week, Year 1 have been looking at fractions in Maths. We have been exploring halves and quarters. We used practical resources to find a quarter of a quantity of objects and used this to write some sentences explaining what we had found. Take a look...
This week in Reception our highlight has been deepening our understanding of numbers to 10 by exploring what numbers can be shared fairly. We will build on this to understand odds and even numbers. Children had to prepare a picnic for our stuffed toys that...
This week Nursery have been exploring amazing Africa and the country Ghana. We compared the Ghanaian flag and the United Kingdom flag and discussed the differences in the flags. Using our shape knowledge, we drew a rectangle with a ruler then painted the flag red,...