For Internet Safety Day Birches thought about everything they know about keeping safe online, then used it to write acrostic poems. It is really important to be able to keep safe online, so it’s great that they’ve remembered so much.
As part of our instructional writing in English, Cherries made pancakes this week on Shrove Tuesday.
We used our maths skills to measure the ingredients, then we developed our cookery DT skills to whisk the ingredients and cook the mixture in the pan. Finally, we ate the pancakes with sugar sprinkled or jam spread on top. We even washed the dishes!
In Science this half term Chestnuts have been learning about what animals, including humans, need to stay healthy. This week we’ve been learning about the importance of a balanced diet and looked at what foods would be included in a healthy lunch box. We then made our own healthy sandwiches or wraps. Delicious!
This week in Maples we looked into the celebration of Chinese New Year and how 2024 is the year of the Dragon. We learnt all about the tradition of gifting a red envelope with money which symbolizes good wishes and luck for the new year ahead. The children then created their very own envelope with chocolate coins in and then exchanged them with their peers. We finished the week off with another short cookery session making crispy cakes which Maples loved.
This week in Acorns we have been looking at and learning about maps, and creating our own. We identified positional vocabulary in the story ‘What the Ladybird Heard’, and used this to talk about our maps.
In Maths, we have been learning about pairs, and sorting odd and even numbers. We paired up animals to go onto Noah’s Ark.
An Olympic athlete, Lucy Turner, came to visit school on Monday. We all took part in a fitness challenge!
We’ve had a fabulous week!
In Cookery Club this week we made delicious Chocolate Brownies. We helped each other weigh and measure all the ingredients and took turns mixing. The smell of the brownies cooking was amazing!
As part of our Geography topic “Rocks, Relics and Rumbles” Cherries have been investigating soil by carrying out fieldwork in our school gardens.
We know there are 3 types of soil: sandy, silty and clay.
We collected soil samples around school, and in class we performed tests (rolling, squeezing and observing) to establish what type of soil we had found. We decided they were silty and clay soils.
A very busy Cookery Club today! First of all we made our own pizzas and garlic breads using bagels as a base. They looked and smelled delicious – we also had fun tasting the different toppings. As a special treat our next job was to make some tasty Biscoff Fudge. We had LOTS of dishes and tidying to do but everyone helped with a smile!
Oaks and Birches visited the OpenZone at the Word this week to take part in a Lego coding activity.
We needed to build a range of different things before adding code to make them move or dance (see our video linked below). The children enjoyed experimenting with coding and adding more complex instructions, evaluating what went right…or wrong and made improvements.
Afterwards we visited the library and enjoyed the Lego exhibit currently on show.
This week in Maples we have enjoyed looking at different types of homes in PSHE and learning map symbols in geography. Our story this week was Goldilocks and the three bears and the children created some lovely sentences and character descriptions based on what they learnt from the book. On Friday the children loved making their own delicious snacks and showed some brilliant independent skills buttering their toast and bagels and even washing up! Well done Maples!
