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Nursery Activities 12.05.20

Nursery Activities 12.05.20

Good morning everyone! I loved looking at your super photographs yesterday, thank you! Here are today's activities. I hope you enjoy them. Miss Clough πŸ™‚ Speaking & Listening / Literacy / Phonics: Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6OiU2h3sUI (up t0 5minutes...

Nursery Activities 11.05.20

Nursery Activities 11.05.20

Good morning everyone. I hope you all managed to have a nice weekend and you are all safe and well. Here are today's activities. I hope you enjoy completing them. I am looking forward to seeing more of your fantastic photographs on Tapestry this week. Miss Clough :)...

Nursery Activities 07/05/20

Nursery Activities 07/05/20

Good Morning everyone! Here are today's activities. I hope you have a lovely long weekend. It would be lovely to see what you get up to by popping a photograph onto Tapestry. I will look forward to seeing them! Miss Clough πŸ™‚ Speaking & Listening / Literacy /...

Supporting Maths At Home

Supporting Maths At Home

For support teaching maths at home - White Rose Maths have produced daily lessons for parents to follow. Click on the link below for further information. Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be encouraged to go to school to the...

Lots more ideas for home learning!

Lots more ideas for home learning!

While it’s important that children learn and retain the basics for their return to school it is also important that they combine this with having fun. I've put together some ideas to help you keep your children excited about learning: Maths Get baking! Measuring...

Times Tables Washing

Times Tables Washing

We never waste a learning opportunity at Windy Nook! The children are singing the 3 times table to the tune of 'Happy Birthday' while they wash their hands. We are now 3 times table experts! Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be...

Calculating distance and diameter!

Calculating distance and diameter!

Last week UKS2 were calculating the diameters of each planet, as well as the their respective distances from the Sun. The maths skills used were knowledge of ratios and conversion of km to cm. Then then drew the inner rocky planets in their books; however, the outer...

Owls enjoy finding out about capacity and volume

Owls enjoy finding out about capacity and volume

Article 13: You have the right to find out things and share what you think with others, by talking, drawing, writing or in any other way unless it harms or offends other people. Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be encouraged to go...

Calculating Volume

Calculating Volume

Today the Beeches have been calculating the volume of cubes and cuboids. They used the mini multi-link cubes to help them actually see how volume worked. Everyone agreed that this concrete aid helped to show how volume worked and they could see the maths behind the...

Train snacks!

Train snacks!

Nursery are focusing on trains this week so we made some edible collages of trains using a variety of savory ingredients. Before we started, we looked at images of trains (high speed, Metro and steam)Β  and discussed the different shapes within them. Article 28: You...

Predicting shadow length in UKS2

Predicting shadow length in UKS2

This term UKS2 have set up an investigation into shadow length and measure the rate of turn in degrees of planet Earth. We have taken 3 measures at 3 consistent times this morning and from this we predict that we can calculate the shadow length and position at set...

Measuring and comparing size in the Dragonflies

Measuring and comparing size in the Dragonflies

The children have enjoyed a week of exploring size and measuring this week. They Compare each other, putting themselves in order of size. They then measured each other using sticks (same sized) and recorded their findings on the whiteboard. Later in the week the...