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As part of Science Week, F1 created a swirling whirling snowstorm. We watched a clip of how the wind blows the snow around then thought about how we could move our ‘snow’. Ella knew that wind blows the trees and snow. Pixie knew that our boards could make ‘wind’. The results were fantastic!
What a wonderful week F2 have had continuing with the story of Jack and the Beanstalk!
This week the beanstalk in our classroom seemed to grow even larger, reaching our classroom ceiling!!!
We found some HUGE shoes which can only belong to the GIANT as we tried them and they were much too big for us!
We have loved pretending to be the giant and answer lots of questions which we discussed together. The children played the part very well and loved our hot-seating activity! This inspired our writing and we thought of lots of good adjectives to use to describe the giant!
With lots of adventures climbing beanstalks and painting endless and endless giant leaves and beans we have had a fantastic week!
We’ve started reading We’re Going on a Bear Hunt in F1.
Today we have been using grass for lots of different activities.
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Today Y4 launched their video ‘Looking After Your Mental Health’ for the start of Children’s Mental Health Week 2025. This formed part of a really interesting English project where children learned all about the importance of mental health. They then wrote reports and finally worked in groups to come up with a report which they could report. As a year group, we merged the best bits together and created this video report written by them. Huge well done to the children who presented their parts so well, and a big well done to all children for their contributions both on screen and off!
This week in F2 we had a surprise basket of props in our classroom! We had to use the clues to guess what traditional tale we would be reading… sticks, straw, bricks and a pig?! Can you guess what it is???
The Three Little Pigs!
We loved reading this story and started learning some signifiers to retell to each other!
We then went off into the classroom and became very inspired with our role-play area and puppets to retell the story and make our own boiling pot of WOLF STEW! Here’s a few snaps of how we got busy in the afternoon and fully embraced our new story!
In our new English unit, The Highway Man by Alfred Noyes, year 6 have been analysing the vocabulary within the poem and using their inference skills to understand the plot. They have also started to create their own story map of the narrative poem!
This afternoon was the final day Y4’s English unit based around ‘Leon and the Place Between’. For their last piece of writing, children learned a magic trick and wrote a set of instructions on how to perform their trick. Children then got a chance to practise their oracy by performing this to our Y2 children who absolutely loved seeing some magic!
Magic Millie showing her cup and ball trick!
Willow couldn’t believe it disappeared and reappeared again!
James demonstrating his vanishing coin trick.
Year 3 have loved our first visit of the year to the Library. We had the chance to read books quietly, share books with friends and even listen to a story that Mrs Smith read.
We sat around the library and spent time looking at all the lovely books we have. Mrs Smith even sat and read a book as well as telling us which ones were some of her favourites. Lots of us want to read Charlotte’s Web after we heard about some of the things which happen in the story.
Within our English unit, we are focusing on persuasive letters. Yesterday, we had a whole class debate regarding a school gym being built at Christopher Pickering. The class did amazingly with rebutting their arguments!
Usually on a Tuesday the children all have the opportunity to butter a slice of toast at snack time. They work hard, trying to spread the butter, developing their fine motor skills. Who would have thought that eating toast could help you learn to write!