Lantern Making workshops Success

By 7th December 2016

Over the last few days Fen Street and Countess Way have been buzzing with the annual parent and child lantern making workshops. This year has been the busiest yet, hosting two workshops a day on each site.

We have had a lot of creative fun making these colourful lanterns which, for the first time, are going home to bring the Brooklands sparkle to our children’s homes. This is the first step in the journey of the lantern festival being completely at the heart of our community.

Please, Please, Please make sure these beautiful creations are shining bight for all to see in windows, porches, balconies, gardens around Brooklands,  on the 15th at 6pm…

Miss Low will be going out into the community searching for those shining lights of Brooklands at that time and will be filming what she finds!

If you would like to take photos of your work in place with in your homes please send to office@brooklandsfarm.milton-keynes.sch.uk

Huge thanks to all involved!

Christmas decoration making with Foundation Parents at Countess Way

By Mrs C Kingsman6th December 2016

Thank you to all the Foundation parents who came into school to help us make Christmas decorations over the last two days. Your artistic skills have been noted!

The children enjoyed decorating the tree and the room too. We will send out the decorations that have been made next week.

We look forward to welcoming even more of you to our Christmas performance next week!

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Dragons Den

By l hearn6th December 2016

We were invited to present our project outcome in a Brooklands Farm Dragon’s Den! We have spent the last few weeks creating our own lunchbox that can be transported to each site along a wire. Our product needed to be waterproof, light and suitable enough to carry Miss Low’s lunch. We spent lots of time reviewing our product and then pitching our ideas to Miss Low and her fellow dragons. They were really excited about our designs and asked us questions that made us think about our next steps in our learning.

 

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Dragons Den

By V Holloway6th December 2016

Last week Year 2 completed their Lighthouses Project with a design create and communicate with a Dragon’s Den style pitch!

Their task was to create a lunchbox for Miss Low after she had been inspired by Mr Grinling (from the Lighthouse Keepers Lunch) to have a way of transporting her lunch and important documents between Fen Street and Countess Way.

In trios, after collecting and connecting their knowledge of materials as well as evaluating existing lunchboxes, they designed a lunchbox for Miss Low. They had to think carefully about what Miss Low would need in her lunchbox, what materials they could use which would be light but waterproof as well as any special features.

They went through the design process, even collecting feedback from other trios in order to edit and improve their designs.

When they had completed their final design they had to present their design to the rest of year 2 and the teachers.

Mr Morrison, Miss McShane and Miss Holloway were extremely proud of how well everyone worked in their trio and their incredibly high learning zones. They all produced high quality work and had open mindsets when need to edit and redraft their design!

Year 2 Computing

By l hearn5th December 2016

In Year 2 we have been following instructions to create aliens. We had to follow each other’s instructions which was actually really hard! We learnt that we need to explain each instruction simply so our partner can understand it.

 

A busy week in 1b!

By c pinder2nd December 2016

We have had lots of exciting things happen in Year One this week, we have been very busy!

In Project, we have been exploring and comparing our country to France. The children have really enjoyed our ‘All About Me’ project and a great way to finish it off was to try some yummy French food!

 

 

In Literacy, we have been finishing our writing sequence from our ‘You Choose’ book, we continued to look at questioning this week to grow our understanding of what makes a question. Here the children are asking others where they would love to travel to, this was then used for our invent stage of writing.

We have also been getting very excited about Design Technology (DT), the children have been putting the finishing touches to the wicker leaves they made.