On Friday 13th November we celebrated the Hindu festival of Diwali in school. Here are a few of the things that Reception got up to, including making Diwali sweets, modelling diyas (small oil lamps), making garlands and Rangoli patterns and decorating the home corner for the festivities!
Base 4 have started to create their very own Automata Toy. The spent Thursday using hack saws, using their accuracy skills with measuring and using hand drills.
Apologies for the lopsided photos – Miss Hedges is having trouble with WordPress today and will try again later !
Some of the pictures show the children in Base 5 exploring different books based on our current topic: How much did the Ancient Egyptians achieve?
The children loved looking through our selection of topic books and finding new information about the Ancient Egyptians. They especially enjoyed the fold-out book that had a huge map of the river Nile!
Other pictures show some children’s art work. Children were using wire to create familiar Egyptian symbols such as a scarab beetle and The Eye of Horus. The children had to using joining, bending and shaping techniques to form the outline of the symbols.
Thank you Base 5 – it is really interesting to keep up with how much you are learning about the Ancient Egyptians and their way of life.
In our outdoor learning this week we learned about Andy Goldsworthy and the amazing art that he does outdoors.
We hunted for the red leaves and made a Poppy with them to add to the Remembrance Day poems we have been writing in English.
Thank you for sharing this with is Year One – it is really lovely.
Because of breaking up for half term ,we had our Star of the Week assembly a day early this week! It was also Mufti Day so everyone wore their own choice of outfit!
Meet this week’s stars – enjoy half term everyone!
Music Heroes are in school this week doing their regular lessons.
Lots of children are now learning guitar and piano and also Jenny Burgess is in school teaching woodwind instruments.
Hriday has started to learn piano and has shared his lesson with us today.
The children in Reception LOVE Treetop Thursday and wanted to show you all some of the activities that they did last week!
Base One are reading Goodnight Mr Tom and today as part of their learning, they have been writing an additional chapter to the story.
Mrs Smith said that there were lots of creative ideas and she was really happy with how hard they were working.
We are sure that the children would be happy to tell you about this lesson and everything that they have learned.
We have loved science week in Base 8. We completed a scavenger hunt to find different materials in and around school, classified them by their properties and designed an experiment to find out what materials are waterproof and Mrs Gilbert got a little bit wet!. Some new words that we have learned are ‘transparent, opaque, absorbent, translucent , waterproof’. It will be great to use them at home to reinforce their meanings.
Last week’s Science for Base 4 included work on resistance.
They investigated air resistance and designing the safest and slowest parachute by investigating string length and surface area.
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