We’re Going on a Bear Hunt!

By Mrs H WILEMAN13th March 2023

We’re going on a bear hunt! We’re going to catch a big one! What a beautiful day!

We’re not scared, demonstrating our good looking and listening skills whilst watching our new story.

We absolutely love retelling all our stories through Tales Toolkit!

Mark making with paw prints, we completed our journey from start to finish using visuals to represent characters, a setting, a problem and a solution.

                                           

We creeped outdoors in search of bears using our own homemade binoculars.

                                             

Uh-Uh! We found grass. Long wavy grass.

                                             

Uh-Uh! We came across a river. A deep, cold river.

                                             

Uh-uh! We got stuck in the mud. Thick, oozy mud.

We made our own natural paintbrushes using sticks and grass creating our artwork using real mud.

                                             

Uh-uh! We stumbled across a forest. A big, dark forest.

                                             

Uh-uh! We had to go through a snowstorm. A swirling whirling snowstorm.

                                         

We arrived safely to school with our families through a real swirling, whirling snowstorm.

                                           

We had so much fun playing in real snow!

                                           

We made our own bears using a fork printing technique.

We’re still not scared!!!!!

                       

After completing the features on our bears… we felt very scared!

We ran all the way back home through the swirling whirling snowstorm, the deep dark forest, the thick oozy mud, the deep cold river, the long wavy grass, stumbled up the stairs and hid under the covers.

We demonstrated good teamwork skills creating the bedspread using a variety of materials to simulate the one in our story.

Can you spot us hiding under the covers?

We’re never, ever, ever going on a bear hunt again!!!!!

 

 

We’re Going On A Bear Hunt

By Mrs C SILVERWOOD8th March 2023

We just loved We’re Going on a Bear Hunt.  So many of the children could retell the story, using actions, and kept chanting parts of the story as they played.

We ended up going exploring out on the field to see what we can find.

There was lots of grass so we made lots of ‘swishy, swashy’ footsteps.

We found a forest and we had to be careful not to stumble and trip!

We pretended the tyres were the thick, oozey mud.

Unlike the story, we got caught in a real BEAR TRAP!

Eventually, we found the bear’s cave.  Poppy saw 1 wet shiny nose!

Which meant we had to rush all the way back home through all the obstacles!

We’re never going on a Bear Hunt again!

F1 write secret messages

By S Wilkinson8th March 2023

F1 have been busy writing secret messages today.  It’s got everyone happily mark making and thinking about what happened in our story, Click Clack Moo, Cows that Write!

First of all we wrote our message with white crayon on white paper.

Then we carefully painted over the top to reveal the messages we had written.

Ivy N read her writing, “It says, can I please have ‘a’ electric blanket?”

Reuben told us, “I wrote all the things that were special.  All the special letters.”

Isla-Grey said, “I’ve sent a special message, look at mine.  It says, please help.  I am cold.  I would like a ‘rel-ectric’ blanket.”

Alex had different ideas, he asked, “Please can we  have some milk and eggs?”

What super writing!

Year 3 – Science Fiction Stories

By Miss T LITHERLAND2nd March 2023

Today in Year 3, to start our new unit of work, we were given a tray of objects and pictures. Using this information we had to work with our groups to make predictions about what our new unit of work could be.

As we use our detective skills in history so much, this was a challenge that we were positive we could solve!

We discovered that it was about a robot named Bibo, who had a 10,000 year warranty and was built a long time ago. We found out that he was once popular and liked to be sociable. He sold ice creams to lots of people but for some reason nobody came to him anymore to buy any. We wanted to find out more so we watched the film clip!

Year 4 PEOPLE WHO INSPIRE US – WHAT MAKES A SAINT?

By Miss L STEWART21st February 2023

Year 4 this term have been rather busy exploring and investigating the questions ‘What is a Saint?’ and  ‘How does a person become a Saint?’  In order to gain the answers to these significant questions we watched videoclips and listened to podcasts of children from other schools giving their own responses and from this deduced that a Saint is someone who is considered to be holy, kind, courageous and a special person who cared for and helped others in their lifetime. However, the children became rather confused to find that a person can only become a Saint after they have passed away therefore never knowing that they had been honored with such a title which our children thought rather unfair.

We then utilised our geographical skills and explored maps of our local and surrounding areas to identify locations which where named after significant Saints.

We identified streets (St Nicholas Avenue; St George’s Road; St Hilda Street), medical centres (St Andrew’s Group Practice), shopping centres and retail areas (St Stephen’s Shopping Centre and St Andrew’s Quay), churches (St Nicholas Church, All Saints Church and St Mark’s Church) and primary and secondary schools/Colleges (St Andrew’s Primary, St Vincent’s Primary, St Thomas More and St Mary’s College). From this we deduced that the councils who govern Hull and the surrounding areas must have recognised the importance of these individuals in order to name significant buildings and roads in our city after them.

The children then explored the lives of significant Saints  – Saint Andrew, Saint Francis and Saint Teresa (Mother Teresa) and considered whether their ‘altruistic cause’ made them worthy of becoming a Saint.

We found that while Saint Andrew is the Patron Saint of Scotland, that he is also the Patron Saint of Fisherman, Fishmongers and Rope Makers. This further enabled the children to make links with Hull’s fishing heritage and understand why Saint Andrew is an important figure for our city. In addition, it was identified that Saint Andrew was a Christian and a disciple of Jesus whose altruistic cause was to continue teaching people about Christianity after Jesus’ death even though doing so led to his own crucifixion.

Saint Francis was a man who in his earlier life was quite selfish and cared only for himself until he heard the voice of God, which led to him giving his wealth away to the poor to become a holy man who lived a simplistic lifestyle. His altruistic cause was to do God’s work and care for others rather than himself. He is known as the Patron Saint of Animals and the Environment due to his ability to talk with nature.

The story of Saint Teresa leaving her family and homeland behind to commit her life to do God’s work in order help those who were less fortunate in Calcutta, India posed the question of whether we felt able to ever leave our own families never to see them again. We felt that Saint Teresa’s altruistic cause to do this was something that we would find hard to do and unanimously agreed that Saint Teresa was a very special person indeed.

In conclusion, we felt that each of these three magnificent individuals were truly worthy of becoming a Saint and deservedly so for their altruism and dedication to serve others in their lifetimes.

We then went on to explore some ‘inspirational people’ who either hailed from Hull or came to Hull and made it their home, while considering whether what they did during their lives for the city of Hull made them either a ‘Hero or a Saint‘:

Bilocca (Fishing Safety Campaigner)
Jean Bishop – The Bee Lady (Charitable Fundraiser)
Clive Sullivan (Sporting Legend)
Sir Leo Schultz (WWII Air Raid Shelter Campaigner)
Phillip Larkin (Poet Laureate)
Amy Johnson (Solo Aviator)
William Wilberforce (Slavery Abolishment Campaigner)

After hearing the significant stories about these ‘inspirational people’ the children agreed that what they did in their lifetime had a considerable positive impact on our city and for this they were all Heroes: however, now that they have sadly passed away that they are all worthy of being recognised as Saints for their own altruistic causes to put the needs of others before themselves.

Well done Year 4 for your super attitude to learning this term!