Week 1, Forest School
What an amazing first session, we are all so very excited!
Mud painting!
Today in Forest School, after school club we made our own paint using mud! We dug for mud, mixed with water and painted pictures. We also hunted for bugs, we are starting to be able to name some bugs now. The rain came but we still had fun!
Mental maths
Year 6 have been practicing their times tables when learning about factors, multiples and prime numbers.
Fine Motor Tracing
In ducklings we have been developing our fine motor skills and learning how to use tweezers. Most children have now found their dominate hand and have been experimenting with different grips on tools. This supports the muscle growth in our hands in preparation for writing.
We carefully picked…
Story Time
The children have listened to 'The Colour Monster' this week as we have been learning all about our emotions. We sat in small groups for a short period of time listening to the story. At the end of the story we took part in discussions around the books, answering a range of questions. The children…
Skittles in Science
As part of our topic learning about the circulatory system, Year 6 used skittles and water to investigate how nutrients pass into our bloodstream from our digestive organs.
Learning Latin
We practiced using ‘sum’ to introduce ourselves, remembering that male names end in -us and female names in -a.
Amazing artists!
Today we have been exploring different mediums. We have used pencils/handwriting pens to complete observational drawings of the objects we collected last week to create replicas of Andy Goldsworthy’s work. Today we focused on continual line drawing and the results were fantastic.
Exploring synonyms!
In our Reading lessons this week, we have read a non-fiction text all about rainforests! Y6 have engaged really well with this text and have enjoyed delving deeper into the reasons as to why our rainforests are at risk. As part of our Reading learning, we have focused on developing our…
Marvellous Modal Verbs!
In Grammar this week, Y6 have learnt all about modal verbs and how they can be used in different ways. We explored how modal verbs can be used to indicate possibility, ability, permission or obligation. Y6 did amazing in this lesson and even completed some tricky SATS questions all about modal…
Terrific teapot designs!
This week in History we learnt all about the famous local potter Thomas Whieldon. As part of our lesson we looked at his ‘Tortoiseshell Ware’ and then used this to create our own teapot design that would be fit for tea drinkers during the Georgian period! I’m sure you’ll agree that these designs…
Environmental Sounds - What can we hear outside?
In phonics we have been learning all about different sounds that we hear inside and outside. We discussed these and listened to different audios carefully, identifying what was making the different sounds. Later in the week we went on a walk around our school grounds to identify different sounds…