Base 1 Science -Virtual Reality

March 11, 2020March 11, 2020Leave a comment

The KS2 children have taken part in a Virtual Reality day today.

Base 1 were the first children to take part and used the headsets to learn about the respiratory system.

Back in class they followed up the demonstration by learning how oxygen travels through the body. They have done this by creating comic strips.

At the end of the lesson they should be able to:

Explain how oxygen moves around the respiratory system using the correct scientific terms;
Know the function of the respiratory system and
Understand that the respiratory system works alongside the circulatory system to transport oxygen and waste products around our body.

It’s a nice day for planting!

March 11, 2020Leave a comment

Reception children have been outside this morning planting carrots and onions.

They have been working on predictions and after doing some planting have been asked to predict what plants need to grow and how long will it take for them to change.

There were some lovely answers.

“I know that it turns into a seedling when it starts to grow”

“We need to wait for summer and rain”

“They can grow flowers and food”

“They will need water to grow”

And my personal favourite

“It will take a long time!”

In the coming weeks, children will be planting potatoes outside too, with a view to entering them in the Newport Show schools competition – how exciting!

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Our History Mural

March 10, 2020Leave a comment

We are excited to tell you that the whole school is working to create a History Mural in the hall.

The mural will include a timeline which includes images of:

The Victorians
The Stone Age
The Romans
The Mayans
Egypt
World War II

Yesterday was the first planning session and we have included some photographs to show you the beginnings of the project.

We will add more information as the work continues.

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Base 6 Science

March 10, 2020Leave a comment

Today in Science, Base 6 have been looking at sound.

Children have carried out a Sound Survey and have looked at different sounds that are made around the school.

They have worked in groups, visiting different areas of the school. One member of each group had a clipboard and pen and noted their findings.

Once they were back in class, they were given the Sound Survey to complete.

Examples of the sounds they heard were typing and talking in the office and plates banging in the kitchen. They also went outside and heard sounds like the wind blowing through the trees.

They were asked to describe the sounds that they could hear in each area and what was vibrating to make each sound.

We are sure the children would like to tell you about their survey, and perhaps you could do your own survey at home.

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Reception and KS1 RE

March 6, 2020Leave a comment

Reception, Year One and Year Two have visited the Sikh Gurdwara today.

We were welcomed in and shown where Sikhs pray, and we heard about what is important in a Sikh person’s life.

We had the opportunity to listen to a reading from the special Sikh book which we learnt is called the Guru Granth Sahib.

We learnt about the 5 K’s that are important to Sikh people. We were treated to a song by some of the Sikh community. We were also very lucky to be able to hear the start of a 48 hour reading from the Guru Granth Sahib. One of our children was shown how to wear a turban.

Just before we left , we were given drinks and snacks. The children really enjoyed the visit.

You can find out more information about what we were learning about here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z7gjmp3

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Year 1 World Book Day

March 6, 2020Leave a comment

A few photographs of the children learning about each other’s characters yesterday.

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World Book Day in Reception

March 5, 2020Leave a comment

How can we help Chicken Licken?!

The children worked in the classroom to make containers for the eggs so that it wouldn’t break when it fell from the sky.

Then they went out onto the playground and put it to the test!

World Book Day 2020

March 5, 2020March 5, 2020Leave a comment

One of our favourite days of the year! Thank you to everyone who has made the effort to dress up – as usual the school is looking very colourful – there are some great costumes around the place!

We had a special assembly so that children could look at each other’s costumes and the staff were tasked with the difficult decision of picking first, second and third in each base.

During the day, children will have some time working on different book based tasks in their bases:

Year 5 and 6 are all working on creating book based board games.
Base 3 are designing posters of their favourite book.
Base 5 are doing a World Book Day Quiz.
Base 6 are hosting their own Book Awards.
Base 7 are sharing their favourite stories with friends and making bookmarks.
Base 8 are having great fun ‘hot seating’, where they introduced their characters to the class. We got to meet and question Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, the Queen of Hearts and one of Goldilocks 3 bears. We were surprised to learn that ‘Baby Bear’ actually liked Goldilocks very much and they have become good friends.
Base 9 are looking at Chicken Licken and finding a way to stop the egg from breaking when it drops from the sky!

Year One Maths

March 3, 2020March 3, 2020Leave a comment

Year One are working on number bonds to 10.

Yesterday the children worked in groups outside on the playground. They each had a number and had to stand next to someone to make their number bond. This was a fun activity and really helped the children understand the number bonds.

Following on from that, today they are working in class to solve word problems using their knowledge of number bonds to 10.

The aims of the lesson are:

To know that they must read the word problem first to work out what it is asking them to do.
To understand what calculation must be done to solve the problem correctly.
To correctly apply their knowledge of numbers bond to 10 to solve the problems.

It would be great if you could work on number bonds to 10 with the children at home to help them with their learning!

Buttercross Court

March 2, 2020March 2, 2020Leave a comment

Children in Reception and KS1 at Moorfield regularly walk over to Buttercross Court in Newport to spend some time with the older members of our community.

Around once a month, the staff take a different group of children over to spend time with the residents. We are not sure who likes it more, the children, the residents or the staff watching the fun that the children have!

This week they played Jenga, dominoes and draughts and were fascinated by the yoyo skills of one of the residents!

We are looking forward to the next visit already!