Today, Year 4 had a special guest in from Warwickshire Wildlife Trust, and we learnt all about pollution that occurs in rivers and drains. Year 3 joined us for our assembly, and we had a workshop to follow! We found the drains around our school and decorated around them to raise awareness for looking after our environment through what we
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Year 4 put their ‘mountainous’ knowledge to the test in an active geography lesson. After talking about what we thought we knew already, we ventured around the classroom to build on our knowledge.
We have started our new Design and Technology topic called Beach Hut. We have spent two afternoons working on making our structures stronger, stiffer and more stable. We used newspaper, card, masking tape and paper. Now we are ready to make the real things out of wood!
This week we covered the new phonemes air, er and double letters bb, rr, gg, dd, pp, ff, tt. We learnt the new tricky words are, sure and pure. In maths the children focussed on the principles of counting, number formation, exploring 5 and a bit to make numbers larger than 5 and 1 more
We went on a walk around school to spot different aspects of our natural world. We found a birds nest, fungi, lichen, moss and sadly some litter. We discussed why we should look after our world and how we could do this.
As some children in Year 5 begin their Forest School sessions, they start to discover allotments (linked to their geography topic of Sow, Grow and Farm). We looked at our own allotment area and talked about the different animals you might find in these areas. Then, using their knowledge of food webs, they created a typical food web for an
Year 5’s Earth and Space topic has seen them discover and understand many of our Solar System’s phenomena; from our Moon’s lunation to how the planets orbit the Sun. Using models and demonstrations, the children were able to better understand the mind-boggling scale of our Solar System.
We have had a fun week in our maths lessons this week. We explored combinations and possibilities by dressing up a member of our class with different items to see how many different outfit combinations we could make. We then used our science knowledge about balanced diets to explore different combinations of food groups. Later on in the week, we
Year 3 enjoyed their recent investigation into the different soil types in our area. We have also made our own ammonite art work using tracing paper and polystyrene tiles.
This week in phonics we learnt the sounds ur, ow, oi and ear, we also learnt some new tricky words my, by and all. In maths we have been learning about more and fewer and comparing sets of objects using new terminology we have learnt. This week we have read the book ‘Peepo!’ by Alan