by Amanda Clough | Feb 2, 2024 | Butterflies and Caterpillars, English, Health and Well-Being, IT and Computing, Maths, News, Outdoor Learning, Science
For maths this week we have focussed on shape. We took part in shape hunts both indoors and outdoors. We discovered that triangles were more difficult to find than circles, squares and rectangles. We continued our Winter theme and used our imagination to produce some...
by Amanda Clough | Jan 26, 2024 | Butterflies and Caterpillars, English, Health and Well-Being, IT and Computing, Maths, News, Outdoor Learning, Science
We made some more shimmering playdough this week following our playdough recipe. We carefully measured and counted the appropriate quantities of ingredients and practised good turn taking and patience while waiting for our turn. We have continued to focus on repeating...
by R Byrne | Jan 19, 2024 | Dragonflies, Ladybirds, News, Outdoor Learning, Science
This week in Dragonflies and Ladybirds, the children have been keeping an eye on the weather each day when completing the message board. They have noticed that it had became very cold and that ice and frost was covering the ground. Over a couple of days, the children...
by Amanda Clough | Jan 19, 2024 | Butterflies and Caterpillars, English, Health and Well-Being, IT and Computing, Maths, News, Outdoor Learning, Science
We have continued to focus on the topic of Winter. One of the stories that we are reading at the moment is called Here Comes Jack Frost and part of the story mentions the interesting patterns that frost forms on windows. We have been very interested in these patterns...
by Crowe | Dec 15, 2023 | Around The World, Beeches, Elms, Oaks, Science
This term, our Science has been all about electricity. We started by recapping some basic facts about electricity and learning about the history of it. We then started to think about the different parts of a circuit and how to draw these using scientific symbols....
by Mr Newman | Dec 4, 2023 | Beeches, Elms, News, Oaks, Outdoor Learning, Science
Children in Year 5 and Year 6 recently enjoyed an online event hosted by the RAF in which they worked in teams to design, build and fly their own glider. Children learned principles of aerodynamics to help them to design a glider which could last the distance in our...
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