This year sees the launch of fountain and calligraphy pens in Year 6. Throughout school, once children have mastered a neat and fluent style of joined writing, they are rewarded with a pen licence. For some children, this can take longer than others, but it is something that we know all children c
For their construction this week Year 6 children were encouraged to see if they could incorporate a moving part. They were asked to think about using the topography of the land and repurposing objects in an imaginative way. Despite lots of chat in class about the various kinds of motions possible, w
As part of our topic ‘Marvellous Me’, the children in. Reception enjoyed creating their own self portraits. After looking at their reflections in the mirror, they carefully mixed paint to create their own skin and hair colour. They then added detail to their faces using oil pastels. Take a
Everyone in Year One enjoyed our history lessons this week during which they have been learning about Mary Anning, the first person in England to excavate dinosaur fossils. They firstly listened to the story ‘Dinosaur Lady’. They then became artists and drew a detailed portrait of Mary Anning.
Year Two have been learning about maps and their symbols in their Geography lessons this week. First they found out that maps have symbols to make it easier to fit on all the information they need. The children found out that map symbols often look similar to the object they represent. They then use
This week in Year 5, we moved onto our next topic, and for the next two weeks, we are going to be learning all about rivers. To start off our new topic, the children used atlases to identify and locate the most famous rivers in the world. They were given a blank map with rivers from each continent.
As well as continuing to settle in to our routines, which they are doing well, we have been talking about how we celebrate birthdays this week. The children have been able to write invitations (with a little help), colour in birthday cards, and wrap presents in the cut and stick area. However, mos
Over the past three weeks, the children have enjoyed learning about the place value of 3-digit numbers. They began their learning by representing and partitioning 2-digit numbers before moving on to numbers up to 1,000. The children were then able to partition 3-digit numbers using calculations. The
In Maths, Year Six have completed a unit of work on place value and are now working on calculations. During the Place Value unit of work, the children have developed a clear understanding of what each digit in a number represents within ones, tens hundreds, thousands up to ten million. They are also
In Year 4 we explored numbers up to 9,999 today, using the flip frames and the place value counters to read, write and create numbers in a variety of ways. We also explored the importance of including the zero in columns that have no value, such as 4,032, because if we missed it out, it became 432.�