This week in F2 …

By Mrs L READ15th March 2024

This week in F2, we have started our story, Oliver’s Vegetables.

 It’s all about a boy who doesn’t like vegetables, only chips!

In literacy we have been retelling the story using our signifiers, sequencing the story, recalling the days of the week, writing sentences about what we can see in the garden (I can see mud/a bush/a pond) and finding out all about the vegetables in the story.

 In maths, first we recapped our learning of 2D shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle). We can say how we know what shape it is by counting its sides and corners.  Then we learnt all about 3D shapes and their properties – cube, cuboid, cylinder and sphere.

In PE we practised for our Easter Bonnet Parade – we can’t wait for you to hear our amazing singing and see our fabulous dance moves!

On Thursday we spent time in our school library. We all enjoyed looking at all the fabulous books and sharing stories with our friends.

Friday was Red Nose Day. We all dressed in red and enjoyed lots of fun activities.  We also found out about why we raise money. how it is used to help people and why it is important that we support charities like these.

As always, we have spent lots of time learning and discovering outdoors…we have been looking for signs of Spring, weeding and watering the plants that have started to grow, gaining confidence when using the climbing wall and pole, singing our days of the week song, chalking shapes and much, much more!

 

Numbers to 100

By Miss P STATHERS22nd September 2023

Year 2 have been exploring numbers to 100 in Maths. Their Maths unit is Place Value and they have been learning to read, write and represent number to 100.  Here they are  representing two- digit numbers in different ways.

They have also learned to partition these numbers into tens and ones. Have a look at their work!

Great Maths in F1 today

By Mrs C SILVERWOOD7th June 2023

Some of our children created a long paper snake out of strips of paper they had cut.  It was decided that it was the longest paper snake they had EVER seen.

There was lots of measuring that went on, with super maths language.  It was even longer than Mrs Silverwood when she laid on the floor.  It turned out it was the same length as Reuben, Alfie and Poppy all laid in a long line.

                                             

Patterning in F1

By Mrs C SILVERWOOD7th June 2023

We have been looking at jungle animals and thinking about the patterns of zebras.

Look how well we did…

     

Year 6 Math Project – Bakery

By Sophie Porteous26th May 2023

Over the last couple of weeks, Year 6 have been working collaboratively to run our very own bakery. We have applied lots of different areas of the maths curriculum we have mastered this year to this real-life project:

First we had to scale the recipes looking at ratio and proportion.

Then we had to calculate the costings for the ingredients and research which shops offered the best value by looking at unit conversions, comparisons, percentages and different deals.

Next, we looked at profit and loss and calculated how much money we would make and what we would need to sell the cupcakes for in order to not make a loss.

After that, we explored packaging and worked hard designing the nets for a single cupcake box and a double cupcake box. We had to draw accurately and use our knowledge of perimeter, area and volume.

We had to tackle some real-life baking problems, calculating cooking times and the mass. This required our knowledge of algebra, fractions and ratio.

We then got busy baking, following our recipes to create our delicious cupcakes.

We have made £198 profit in total across Year 6! Well done!

Tales Toolkit

By Mrs H WILEMAN9th May 2023

We were able to discuss and sequence events of our story of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ using Tales Toolkit.

Tales Toolkit is a framework for storytelling which is accessible for all our little treasures. The framework using clear symbols displaying character, setting, problem and solution allows us to be fully engaged in storytelling from start to finish. We used extra props and visuals to aide the sequence of events.

Our little treasures were able to identify that the caterpillar came first and the butterfly at the end. With support and help from their classroom environment they were able to count and sequence some of the food that the hungry caterpillar ate.

                                           

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

By Mrs H WILEMAN9th May 2023

We were able to, with a little support, count and copy the pattern of Mrs Nageri’s caterpillar, using miniature sponge printing. We are so clever!

                                         

We loved our sensory messy play using paper mache to create a cocoon for our caterpillar. We then painted it using a large grown up paintbrush with Mrs Robinson.

He is now tucked up all nice and cosy. Sshhhhhh!!!!!

                                         

Just like all our little treasures, our caterpillar has grown into a beautiful butterfly.

We love the way the sun catches our stained glass butterflies, shining brightly.

                                         

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

By Mrs H WILEMAN9th May 2023

On Monday he ate through one apple, but he was still hungry.

We enjoyed some apple printing to represent the food he ate on Monday.

                                         

On Tuesday he ate through two pears, but he was still hungry.

We enjoyed the sensory feel of the felt we used to make our pears, representing the food he ate on Tuesday.

                                           

On Wednesday he ate through three plums, but he was still hungry.

We enjoyed exploring our senses looking through the purple coloured cello to make our plums, representing the food he ate on Wednesday.

                                             

On Thursday he ate through four strawberries, but he was still hungry.

We used our glue to stick on some seeds we found outdoors to represent the seeds on our strawberries. This was the food he ate on Thursday.

                                           

On Friday he ate through five oranges, but he was still hungry.

We loved painting the bubble wrap to represent the texture of the oranges he ate on Friday.

                                             

On Saturday he had stomachache after eating through lots of yummy food. Can you see all the food he ate from our ‘Widgit’ visuals?

We used our scissor skills to cut out all the yummy food he ate on Saturday.   

On Sunday the caterpillar ate though one nice green leaf. He felt much better!

We enjoyed fork painting to represent our nice green leaf.

                                             

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

By Mrs H WILEMAN9th May 2023

Great excitement in The Hub for our new topic ‘What’s at the bottom of our garden?’

We looked at the life cycle of a butterfly through our story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ by Eric Carle.

We demonstrated good sitting, looking and listening during our visual representation of the story. Good understanding was displayed, through eye gaze and pointing, to answer all our questions.

                                           

After some inspiration from our story, we explored our outdoor area for some very hungry caterpillars using our magnifying glass.

                                           

Can you imagine the excitement when some real live caterpillars arrived in our Hub for us to look after!

                                           

We immersed our classroom to make our caterpillars feel at home. We made a number line caterpillar, paper mache cocoon and symmetrical patterned butterflies.