It’s nearly time!

By admin3rd September 2015

I can’t believe the summer is over already! (Even the weather agrees!) I hope everyone has had an amazing time, whether you have been relaxing at home or off adventuring somewhere exotic!

All of the teachers at Brooklands Farm have been back at school since yesterday, busy learning to be even better teachers and preparing for Monday!

I am very excited about my new role as Head of School for Lower Key Stage 2 and I can’t wait for the children to be here so we can start becoming balanced learners and achieving together!

See you on Monday everyone 🙂

Our Amazing Brain!

By admin22nd May 2015
To mark the end of our fantastic brain project, we created our own aerial view of the human brain! As you can see, each colour makes up a different part of the brain.
Over this week, we have learnt that our brains have many different parts that work together. Our visitors from the ‘Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust’ taught us about the following five parts of the brain:
  1. cerebrum (say: suh-REE-brum)
  2. cerebellum (say: sair-uh-BELL-um)
  3. brain stem
  4. pituitary (say: puh-TOO-uh-ter-ee) gland
  5. hypothalamus (say: hy-po-THAL-uh-mus)

Click here to find out what each of these parts do.

Brains reach high learning zones!

By admin22nd May 2015

3c have demonstrated incredibly high learning zones over the past few days! They have been working on a persuasive text to encourage others to wear a helmet when riding their bike, skateboard, scooter or skates. Every child has incorporated persuasive openers and technical language. When their text was complete, the children came up with actions to perform their work to each other. A huge well done to Alyssa and Ariella who performed a persuasive poem alongside a dance in a whole school assembly! 🙂

Brainy Brains!

By admin20th May 2015

3C have really enjoyed learning about the brain the past few days! We spend Monday producing art work about the 2 sides of our brain; the left being our learning/ academic side and the right being our fun and creative side. The art work they produced was used as the front cover for their brain booklet where they can store all their learning from the week.
We also had a go at making jelly brains with spaghetti. Over the last few days, we have seen what happens to our brain when it does not receive any water, activity, learning, nurture etc. The result was 24 bowls of mouldy jelly! WOW! Children have used this to appreciate the importance of looking after their brains.
On Monday afternoon we had a visitor in to talk about the importance of protecting our brains and why it is important to wear a helmet when riding a bike. The children are now using this information to write a persuasive text to others on the importance of wearing a safety helmet and the consequences if they do not.

Watch this space for more updates 🙂

Success at the bake sale!

By admin15th May 2015

A huge well done to all of year 3 for the amazing bake sale they hosted on Monday after school. They spent the morning making cakes, smoothies and punch to help raise money for Nepal Earthquake. Year 3 developed lots of skills during this fun packed day such as; measuring weights, adding and subtracting weights, adding money and giving change, team work, communication and some even had first hand experience of selling! 🙂 It was amazing to see all the children achieving high well-being and learning zones and showing sensitivity and maturity towards the disaster in Nepal.

WE RAISED A STAGGERING £87.30!!! Well done team! And thank you for helping Nepal in their time of need!

Year 4 travel to become archaeologists

28th February 2015admin

This week, year 4 became archaeologists and investigated the ancient Romans. They had an amazing day at the ancient Roman town of  Verulamium near St. Albans, becoming Romans, touching and investigating real Roman artifacts and seeing some incredible mosaics that they were allowed to run their hands over.

The children were incredibly excited throughout and after their ignite day and they have some wonderful ideas for their project.

 

Year 6 transition to Oakgrove Secondary School

27th February 2015admin

Today, year 6 visited Oakgrove Secondary School for their first taster of secondary style lesson and learning.

After a long walk, the children settled into maths problem solving activity completing lots of hand on tasks. The children’s learning zones were exceptionally high and they thoroughly enjoyed themselves!

Here’s some pictures of our day!

 

Year 6 Ignite Nelson Mandela Project!

24th February 2015admin

Year 6 have been welcomed back with an ignite for our new project ‘Nelson Mandela- Prison or Freedom’.

The children have spent the morning completing three different activities:

Firstly, the children have been spending the morning researching the countries of Africa, looking in particular at one of the countries and the physical and human features of that country using globes, atlas’ and websites.

They have also been learning about rotation, symmetry and transformation and using this knowledge and understanding about this to create their own African art!

Lastly, the children have been researching Nelson Mandela’s most famous quotes and creating posters using these quotes, which we hope to display down our year 6 corridor!

Have a look at some of our pictures: