DT Windmills

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Our design and technology project this half term has been learning about structures. The children have made windmills out of paper cups and showed great problem solving skills as they worked out how to stop their windmills falling over in the wind and how to construct them. So much great learning…

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Your Imagination

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We have been learning how to play the glockenspiel this week in our music lesson. E have been learning a song called ‘Your Imagination’ and have begun to learn how to play instruments along to the song. 
 

 

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Learning to measure in cms

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The children have been using a variety of tools and learning how to measure accurately. They’ve been introduced to millimetres, centimetres and metres then explored measuring themselves. Great learning children!

 

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Longer or shorter than a metre?

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Exploring length, measuring and deepening their understanding of standard measures looking if objects are shorter or longer than a metre. Lots of great discussion, comparing and learning.

Reasoning and problem solving … “l only have one metre stick, I can’t measure that it’s too big” … can…

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Materials and their properties

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In our ongoing science topic about materials the children have been investigating the properties of the materials. After looking at objects in our classroom they went exploring outside looking at what objects are made of, describing what the materials they are made of and questioning why they have…

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Measuring with non standard measures

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The children have been exploring measuring length and height with non standard measures. Lots of great predictions, estimating, counting, comparing and discussion in their learning. 

 


 

 

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Longer and shorter

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Our younger children have been exploring length, drawing, measuring, comparing and learning. 
 

 

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10 more, 10 less

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Exploring numbers adding and taking ten, looking at place value an deepening our understanding through lots of maths chat and team work…

 
 

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Materials objects are made of …

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We have begun investigating materials and their uses in science learning this term. The children have been looking at a variety of objects and investigating which materials they are made of and discussing why they are made out of that particular material. 
 

 

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Counting Fun

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Our younger children have been learning through a variety of activities where they are counting to 20 and beyond. They are working on mastering the order of teen numbers, recording their counting as a tally and investigating capacity outdoors. Take a look at these snapshots of their learning. 

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Happy Mother’s Day 2025

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This year the children created some beautiful, unique cards to say thank you to their Mums this Mother’s Day. 
 

 

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Sewing gifts for Mother’s Day

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As part of our DT skills the children have been learning how to sew a simple running stitch. They practised threading using laces and cards to learn the technique to begin with. Then they chose some felt and embroidery thread and made toggle for a key ring as a gift for their Mummies this Mother’s…

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