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…
Symbols on a map
Our geography lessons this term are focused around maps, understanding the symbols, grid references and how to read maps.
In our first lesson, we explored Ordinance Survey maps. Children searched for as many symbols as they could find on their maps and copied them down. Once we had found our…
Mastering multiplication
In our maths lessons, we have been looking at multiplication and division. We have done lots of focused work on odds and evens, understanding which numbers are divisible by two and which are not. We have been working hard to understand the relationship between multiplication and division, where…
Investigating plants
Our new topic this half term is how plants reproduce.
To begin, we looked at the different parts of a plant. This included lots of parts we had seen before in lower school but also some new ones. We looked more closely at what was inside the flowering part of a plant and learned the names for…
Science -classification of vertebrates and invertebrates
Today the children completed lots of learning all about how scientists classify (group) animals. We started off by looking at a classification system and then broke this down into classifying vertebrate and invertebrate organisms. The children were challenged to identify what characteristics each…