We were really very proud of our HUB team during the Cross Country Run this afternoon!
Lots of determination demonstrated here! Well done everybody!
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Such excitement in our Hub today as it was our first community visit to Pickering Road Community Orchard.
We travelled in style in our minibus, enjoying the ride as we observed our local area.
Rosie and all the wonderful volunteers look after us so well during our visit.
We picked our own scrumptious apples.
We tasted some juicy apples.
We then went back to our Hub and made some ‘Gruffalo Crumble’ to take home for our tea. It was delicious.
During this unit on Place Value, we have made great use of tools to help us represent numbers, partition, expand and find 1/10 more and less than a given number.
We have grown in confidence to explain our calculating using sentence stems to help us structure our answers.
As Artists, we looked at a piece by Alexander Calder called ‘Les Masques’ which was painted in 1970.
We discussed the bold use of shapes and colours and shared our opinions on this piece. We then enjoyed creating our own interpretation.
We listened to feedback and worked hard to improve our techniques.
We can…………………
- crawl
- kick a ball
- balance
- run
- swing
- climb
- throw a ball
- slide
- bounce
- communicate our needs
- laugh
- take turns
- wait
- regulate
- risk take
Oh……………. the list is endless what we can do!
We are ‘The Hub Playpark Superstars’!
All Aboard!!!!!!!
Our Sensory Learners love travelling to our park on our Hub Bus.
They anticipate what is coming next on their visual timetable, demonstrating great excitement.
We all enjoy the ride waving to our friends along the way, arriving safely at our destination.
Today, we really enjoyed working with our special visitor, Lisel who led a mindful Yoga session for us. We were stretching, breathing and relaxing in this totally chilled out session! Check out our wonderful balancing skills…
Today was the first of our HUB Community Visits. We went to the Pickering Road Community Orchard and it was wonderful! The volunteers welcomed us and allowed us to explore the grounds. We found Bee hives, a woodland walk, a labyrinth as well as hundreds of beautiful apple trees.
Rosie then took us to the tasting table, where she told us all about the varieties of apples that are grown there. We learned about cooking and eating apples and tried a few samples, the very small ‘Pit and Pineapple’ variety were our favourite due to the sweet taste. We were impressed by the size of the Jupiter apple, a really impressive fruit! After this, we used the map and markers to find the trees that grew our favourite and we were allowed to pick as many apples as we could carry!
The following day at school, we composed thoughtful letters to Rosie, thank ing her and the volunteers for out visit. We presented our work with care and will send them to her next week. After working hard writing our letters, we rolled up our sleeves for a food technology lesson. We were peeling, grating and chopping the cooking apples, working as a team to prepare the fruit for our apple crumble. They looked amazing and the best part was the tasting, knowing the journey our apples had taken from tree to table. We were really proud!
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We had lots of fun using our handprints to create our very own seasonal ‘Hub Tree’ all ready for autumn.
