In school on Thursday 25 February we had a visitor called Olly Day. He told us all about road safety and showed us some magic tricks as well. In one of them he had some ropes, one short, one medium and one long. They each had names, the short one was Stop, the medium one was Look […]
Monthly Archives: February 2016
In our new topic we have been learning about mountains. We investigated where the highest mountains are around the world.We used atlases to find the locations of mountain ranges in every continent.We also used dictionaries to define lots of geographical vocabulary. One of the most FUN things we have done was drawing pictures to show […]
Our Woodlands, Wildlife and Weather topic is going very well and we have learnt lots of information about different plants and trees. Our reading area is now a Reading Garden and the children are enjoying sharing their books in there. We really enjoyed making our leaf people […]
For the past two weeks in Big Write the class have been thinking about Stanley, the main character in the novel Holes by Louis Sacher. He experiences lots of really interesting things in a very short amount of time and the book is really inspiring some great writing. This week in Big Write the […]
On the 4 th February we had a special surprise when the Irie Steel Pan Workshop came into our School. Marcella and Junior played all kinds of different songs including ‘who let the dogs out?’ which we sang along to. We all danced the conga around the hall, it was fantastic fun. We all had […]
Yes, despite bridges falling off, strings snapping and a rather unfortunate breakage, class 4 are indeed making great progress with their violin playing. Not only can everyone now recognise and play the four open strings ( that means playing the string without putting your fingers on it), they can now also play 2 additional notes […]
The children have now finished their wonderful art work showing what they think Growth and Fixed mindset look like. They spent a long time planning and then creating their fabulous work. Each child has also written an explanation of their thoughts behind the artwork. They make for very interesting reading! I have put some up […]
Last week we were writing a recount about a lonely robot Our writing had a twist though!As we were using DADWAVERS! our writing turned out to be different to any other old recount. We think they were much more interesting! Some of us used handwriting pens to copy up our work for display. […]