Year 1 have had a great afternoon building gliders (bought from our trip to Shuttleworth), paper aeroplanes and kites. We have been flying them on our playground. Miss Campbell spent her last afternoon running the kite repair shop!
What a busy half term we have had! The highlight for many was the eclipse. This generated some amazing stories by the children were they used the moon covering the sun and being ‘plunged into darkness’ as the problem. The children thought of creative resolutions and really put their writing skills to great use.
To experience the eclipse we used two pieces of paper (one with a tiny hole in) to see what was happening above (without actually looking!) What a fantastic experience this was for the children!
On Friday I also had the pleasure of awarding two star pupils with their calm pins. Well done! We are very proud of you! I wonder who will be next?!
Year 5 performed and shared their enrichment learning this afternoon, along with the rest of upper Key Stage 2. They performed a shadow puppet show and guitars (Bruno Mars Uptown Funk). They really enjoyed sharing their learning with peers and teachers. They all did a fantastic job and have clearly engaged and progressed in their enrichment learning this term. Well Done Year 5!
This afternoon year 5 were very busy putting the final touches to their Hogwarts Style lessons ready to teach year 3 and 4 on thursday afternoon.
In wand skills we decorated our wands, finished translating our spell into Latin and created our wand movement!
On Friday 20th April 2015 there was a spectacular event that we just could not ignore – a solar eclipse!
We were fascinated to find out how this event happens and what it would look like. The whole of foundation watched the eclipse in all the safe ways that we could find and even had a go at looking at it first hand through a pin hole projector that the teachers had made.
All this investigating made us really eager to continue our learning by drawing and writing newspaper articles about the events of the day.
This was one of the fantastic headlines created in year 5 today as we wrote newspaper reports about the Solar Eclipse.
We started the day researching and investigating the solar eclipse by writing a brief description of what happens and using diagrams to support our explanation. We also watched the eclipse live!
Miss Low set us the challenge of using the solar eclipse to inspire us to write! So for the rest of the day we planned and have started writing (very nearly finished!), our own newspaper reports about this rare phenomenon! At the end of the day we shared our work with each other.
We will share some finished results with you next week.
We’ve had a fantastic morning learning all about the solar eclipse! We watched a live video from the BBC, which showed the moment the moon obscured the sun from view. Later, we did some creative writing to consolidate what we have learnt!
Keep up the great learning Year 3.
From this week, year 6 pupils are becoming even more independent!
The children will be bringing home their close the gap plans on Friday, where they have analysed their learning and planned their own homework.
Close the gap plans need to be in school from Wednesday to Friday each week, so that they can be updated and reviewed in lessons.
As this is planned and owned by each individual child, year 6 homework will no longer appear on the website as it is completely personalised.
We look forward to seeing the children in charge of their home learning!
The sun was bright in the playground so we had great fun investigating the shapes that we could make with our shadows and looked at the way that the shadows moved throughout the day.
We were amazed by the knowledge that the children had about how shadows are made and why they moved!
