Teach Your Monster To Read
We have started using a great phonics and reading programme in school called Teacher Your Monster. All your children’s log in details were sent home this weekend so that they can play and practice at home. Please enjoy the maths games too. Have fun learning!
Here are some photos of just a few…
Tadpoles
A few weeks ago, Luke’s Grandma kindly brought us some frog spawn to study. We kept it at school long enough to see a few tadpoles emerge before giving it back for it to be returned to the pond for the tadpoles to grow and turn into frogs in their natural environment.
It gave us a great…
PSHE- Parliament Activities
The children in Upper School will be visiting the Houses of Parliament on Tuesday 1st April therefore we decided we needed to learn about what happens there and how UK parliament works. We spent a lesson getting to know the background of our Parliamentary process and what the House of Commons and…
Memories
How can I find out more about myself? Was the question we asked ourselves this week in our history lesson. Whilst exploring this question the children learnt more about their own history. They talked about three special memories to begin with and explained why memories such as an event or occasion…
How am I making history?
During this half term the children are learning some similarities and differences between the past and their own lives. They have learnt that a timeline shows the order events in the past happened. We started by looking at now on a timeline and then looked back.
Take a look at these photos…
World Book Day Authors
The children wrote their own books and became authors on World Book Day!
Painting Robots
The children have been improving their fine motor an drawing skills drawing robots. Once they were happy with their drawings the children used watercolour paints to paint them. They practised lots of skills, using the brushes and paints correctly whilst learning how to use the right amount of…
Spelling Frame Challenge
Year 5/6 are continuing to improve their spellings using Rainbow Words and Spelling Frame. Each child has their own list of spellings to learn at home and at school every day. We have a weekly leaderboard on Spelling Frame and the class can earn certificates for working regularly to ‘uplevel’…
Roman Day
At the end of last half term, we finished up our Romans topic with a full Roman day! We were also lucky enough to have year 2 join us.
To begin with, the children had a maths lesson to recognise Roman numerals. The children did very well and noticing the patterns with Roman numerals and could…
Monster Bookmarks
The children made some awesome bookmarks this afternoon after our whole school buddy reading time. They’re keeping them in their new World Book Day books!
Book Scavenger Hunt
World Book Day fun began (after we had listened to a story) with the children reading lots of books and searching for certain characters and other things in books.
Dress up as an adjective!
This year for World Book Day we all dressed up in an outfit that showed an adjective as we are focusing on spelling and grammar in our literacy work right now. Thank you so much to our children and families for joining in the fun and creating some brilliant outfits. Take a look at the children…