Year 5 - Geography
In geography, the children worked in groups to determine the correct features of a mountain before using their artistic skills to draw a labelled diagram in their books. We then went on to explore how mountains are formed by the ever shifting outer crust floating on the liquid rock inside the mantle before describing the different types of mountains that can be found on Earth.
Whole School Worship - The Story of Queen Esther
This morning our whole school came together to worship with Rev Ben. Here we enjoyed a story about Queen Esther who came to power for her beauty and saved her people from the king by showing courage and compassion. We then thought about how we can show courage and compassion to others and ourselves.
Forest School Christmas Party
We concluded our final Forest School session of the year with a Forest School Christmas Party! We made music using materials around us, enjoyed the beautiful full moon and played some fun games. It’s been a pleasure to share our Forest School Club with your enthusiastic and amazing children! We hope to continue the club in the new year. Thank you for embracing nature, getting muddy and learning how to look after our shared spaces.
Reception Maths - Numberblock Stampolines
This week, Reception have been further developing their understanding on composition of numbers 1-5. We used the Numberblocks as reference to print patterns equal to their amounts and looked at the parts we could see. We also thought about how each Numberblock can create different shapes, but still remains the same amount as before. The children then used an interactive grid on the large screen to explore these shapes and patterns.
Year 4 Maths LBQ
Today we had a visit from Mr Bloomfield who taught us various ways to multiply and divide by 9 using LBQ. The children loved learning the most common tricks of how to understand and find the next multiple of 9.
Year 1 Science: using our sense of touch
Continuing on with our Science, we focused on our sense of touch. We understood that when we touch something or feel something on our skin, it sends a message to our brain. Sometimes this always keeps us safe from touching dangerous objects. We used our fingertips to feel different objects and describe them. Some of the words we used to describe the objects were rough, smooth, warm, cold, hard and soft. Year 1 are really enjoying learning about the human body and their scientific work is really impressive.
DPSSA Football League
Some super game play this evening down at the DPSSA Football League at Witton. Our first game was against Ashleigh when we unfortunately lost 7-0 . Our second game was against Holy Trinity and through pure grit and determination we can away with a draw.
Singing at Acer Lodge Care Home
We are so proud of the 8 children, who were selected based on their effort in Monday's singing worship, who sang at Acer Lodge Care Home on Wednesday. They brought lots of festive cheer to the residents and it was wonderful to see them joining in with the bells we gave out. The children were over the moon to get a surprise visit from Santa himself, who thanked the children by giving them each a selection box. Rosie gave some letters written by herself and her Year 4 class to the residents to introduce themselves and tell them about themselves. We hope the residents enjoyed reading them.
Year 2 Pantomime Visit - Snow White
Year 2 really enjoyed their visit to the pantomime on Tuesday. Oh no they didn't! Oh yes they did!
Year 2 - Decorating our Christmas tree
Year 2 have all worked together to decorate our Christmas tree.
Whole School Worship - The First Day of Advent
The whole school family came together to celebrate the start of Advent. We heard from Lisa, Sam and Bishop Joe that through his messengers the prophets, God told his people that Jesus was coming 100's of years before he arrived.
Year 2 - Christmas Puppets
Year 2 have been decorating our Christmas Puppets this week.