Exploring 3d Shapes
This week in Reception, the children have been investigating 3D shapes naming: cube, cuboid, cylinder, pyramid, sphere and cone. The children explored what would happen when they printed a 3d shape in playdough, they noticed that the flat faces held the same shape as...
Nursery Scientists!
As this week is British Science Week we have been scientists and started an experiment using apples. We used all of our senses to explore some apples and discussed out findings. First of all we looked at the apple and discussed its shape, colour, size and the detail...
Sorting 3D shapes
Year 2 have been busy looking at properties of 3D shapes, using them to sort the shapes in different ways. We have been using Venn diagrams and Carroll diagrams to think about edges, vertices and surfaces of shapes. We even created our own labels for each other to...
Still Life Artists in Nursery
In preparation for Mother's Day we have been drawing flowers to which will be attached to the front of our Mother's Day Cards next week. We chose which medium to use from a selection of felt pens, coloured pencils, pastels and crayons. We examined a mini Daffodil...
Counting by making groups of 10s
Year 1 have enjoyed exploring how to effectively count within 50 by grouping in 10s. The children worked practically with a partner using base ten to group objects into groups of 10 then count the remaining ones. Article 13: You have the right to find out things and...
Scratch!
The children in UKS2 have been using Scratch to create their very own quizzes. They have built upon a previous computing unit for UKS2 which involved using selection in physical computing, using selection to program Crumble controllers. This unit furthered their...
Shrove Tuesday and much more!
We have had another wonderful week in nursery. We all made pancakes within our key worker groups in our cooking area. We began our session by reading the book, Mr Wolf's Pancakes which we loved. We discussed the equipment and ingredients required to cook pancakes. We...
Happy Chinese New Year from Nursery!
We have had a fantastic week in nursery celebrating Chinese New Year. We have made themed pictures on the interactive white board. We learned that Chinese people believe that red is a lucky colour so we showed off our design technology skills by folding red paper to...
We’re going on a shape hunt!
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...
Hip Hip Array!
Year 2 have been learning about arrays this week. We have been developing our knowledge of multiplication by using images with rows and columns. We used stem sentences to explain each array. Article 29: Your education should help you use and develop your talents and...
Another busy week in nursery!
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...
Making the most of the Winter weather!
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...