National Poetry Day 2015!

By D Gray9th October 2015

Not worrying about being a day late, year 3 and 4 have become fantastic poets today, to celebrate National Poetry Day! We explored and wrote our own nonsense poems, found out about Kenning poems and even shared some poetry with other year groups in the school!

I’m especially proud of the children who reviewed and improved their work multiple times to achieve a quality final piece.

 

A wonderful nonsense poem!

Stephanie and Ben worked hard on this lovely original nonsense poem

I love Em Jaye’s illustration to go with this poem

Children being inspired by the dark!

Mr Gray’ Fire poem certainly brought the heat!

Mr Morrison performing ‘Where do all the teachers go?’ By Peter Dixon

 

Igniting our Milton Keynes Project

6th October 2015D Gray

Yesterday and today, we have been igniting our project and getting excited about continuing to deepen our learning about Milton Keynes.

We played Milton Keynes Monopoly, which helped children learn the names of different places and it tied in well with our addition and subtraction focus in maths.

Today we explored the map of Milton Keynes and went on a treasure hunt! One child, surprised by the sheer size of MK, asked whether it was a map of the world!

Bubbleology

23rd September 2015D Gray

As part of our Fun Science Friday, year 3/4 took part in bubbleology. As you can see, the children were showing incredibly high learning zones and everyone left on a well being 5. Helping children to be excited about Science is so important to me and practical experiments help to create lifelong learning experiences.

 

 

Playtime

By D Gray17th September 2015

I’ve been so proud to see how well year 3 and 4 are playing at break and lunch! They’ve shown that they can be responsible leaders in the school and are looking out for the younger children by opening their hearts to them.

Here you can see them in ‘the cage’ at lunch honing their dodgeball skills!

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Great team work at Countess Way!

By D Gray9th September 2015

What a brilliant start we have made to our new Countess Way campus! All children have shown high levels of well being and are showing high learning zones already, which is a great achievement!

Here are a few pictures of some children trying to create the tallest paper structure! We highlighted the importance of listening to each other and the concept of compromise!