Another Wonderful Week in Nursery!
Our new children have continued to thrive and make us proud. We have continued to be fantastic mathematicians again this week by sorting items into groups. We have continued to care for our sunflower seedlings by checking the moisture levels in their soil and watering...
Seedlings and much more!
We have had an excellent first week back after the Easter holidays. We have welcomed some new friends who have embraced nursery life and made us really proud. During our maths sessions we have focused on sorting. We categorised items into groups of straight...
Happy Easter from Nursery!
This week we have continued to focus on Easter. We read The Easter Story and found out what Christians believe. We finished our Easter cards which look fantastic. We made Easter themed pictures on the interactive white board. We baked biscuits, added some icing in the...
Year 1 investigate capacity
This week Year 1 have been learning about capacity. We discussed the difference between capacity and volume: Capacity – the amount that a container can hold. Volume – the measure of space taken up by the object itself. The children enjoyed a practical lesson allowing...
Maths in UKS2
This term UKS2 have covered a variety of different objectives in maths from converting between units of measure, understanding properties of shape, understanding position and direction, understanding perimeter, area and volume and interpreting statistics. Year 6 are...
Measuring in Year 1
This week in Maths the children have been looking at measure using and non standard measurements using cubes and standard measurement using a ruler for centimetres. The children then discussed object's which were the longest, shortest and calculated the difference....
Easter Preparations in Nursery
This week in nursery we started to make Easter cards. We folded some card by lining up the corners and made some finger prints on the front of the card using yellow paint. When the paint was dry we transformed them into Easter chicks by drawing eyes, beaks and legs...
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...