I can’t wait to get my teeth into this year at Brooklands! I am lucky enough to have landed my dream job as a full time art teacher, let’s get creating and make Brooklands even more beautiful!
As part of our Building Project, year 3 have had a fantastic time using their design and technology skills to help create a miniature classroom that adheres to our client’s needs. Children have reviewed and improved their designs and have evaluated which were the best materials to use. It’s so important to have a growth mindset and to keep improving our work so I am very proud of my children for doing so!
Here are some pictures of year 3 hard at work:
Year 3 had a great time visiting our new Brooklands Farm Primary School on Countess Way. We enjoyed walking through our community and even had a little picnic on the new field! Year 3 asked some fantastic questions and have grown their understanding of how a building gets from the design stage to the finished stage.
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:
- cerebrum (say: suh-REE-brum)
- cerebellum (say: sair-uh-BELL-um)
- brain stem
- pituitary (say: puh-TOO-uh-ter-ee) gland
- hypothalamus (say: hy-po-THAL-uh-mus)
Click here to find out what each of these parts do.
All week we have been testing our brains to see how we like to learn best.
Not only that, we have been trying to develop our growth mindset so that we always say ‘I can I can I can’ and keep growing our learning.
This morning the learning zones in Year 4 were amazing! Everyone had a growth mindset and nobody minded if they had to re-draft their work. In fact, lots of children chose to do this several times to make sure their work was the best it could be!
Well done year 4! We are extremely proud. Your new growth mindset will help you achieve fantastic things.
This picture represents our learning this week. Two children using all three learning styles – visual, auditory and kinaesthetic – and a growth mindset to take their next steps in maths…
Year 3 made some jelly on Friday. We left them over the weekend, but we left them in the heat and exposed with no protection. Thus, when we returned, the brains had gone mouldy.
We learnt that unless we look after our brains with learning, vitamins, protection and connections then they can become damaged.
During Brain Week year 4 are investigating the best way of learning!
Yesterday we researched different parts of the brain and created mini cake brains which we have labelled to remind us of the parts we use when we are learning.
Today we talked about the ways we like to learn and throughout the week we will carry out mini investigations to put them to the test!
Miss Downey thinks she has a photographic memory and is a visual learner but Miss Roberts learns best when the task is auditory and visual…
We would love to know what type of learners our parents are too. What strategies did you use to learn your times tables and spellings at school?
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!
As we were so inspired by the mosaics we saw on our trip to the Verulamium we decided to create our very own for Brooklands!
On Wednesday an artist came to school to help us make a piece of history for the school, which will last for years and remind us of our core values, Open, Grow and Believe. Here are some sneak previews of the children’s amazing work…
