This week in Acorns our Maths work has been all about the numbers 1, 2 and 3. We have been looking for the numerals in the environment, and making representations of the numbers in different ways.
We have read stories linked to groups of three, including The Three Little Pigs and The Three Billy Goats Gruff. We made story maps to retell the stories, and designed some strong and sturdy bridges!
Next we are looking forward to building houses for the Three Little Pigs!
The children in Birches class have created their own African silhouette pictures. The children used different chalks and were able to blend the colours to create a sunset background. They added some African animals to re-create an African safari scene.
In Chestnuts we have been learning about China and this week we located the continent of Asia, the country of China and its capital. The children used atlases, maps and globes to locate China and look at the countries different features. Did you know China borders 14 different countries!
The children in Maples have worked so hard this week. In Phonics, the children have been learning new phonics sounds and consolidating their segmenting and blending skills. In Maths, each of the children have worked hard on their own individual targets, including counting, identifying more/less as well greater than/less than and equals. In Geography we identified how the land and sea are represented on a world map and have coloured their own to demonstrate their understanding. In History, we identified and discussed who the significant people are for each of us and in art we enjoyed exploring and painting using primary colours.
Have a look at our amazing work!
Birches class have settled in really well the first week back at school. The children have enjoyed social time with each other, working on communication skills. They have been working together to build Lego models and to build the marble run.
The children enjoyed the start of out new topic – ‘Amazing Africa’. They learnt lots of new facts and are excited to learn more. 
As part of Fieldwork Fortnight, Willows carried out some work around the school grounds using compass points.
They explored the 8 points of a compass and drew versions of their own using chalk. Next, they used compasses to find out the answers to some questions involving compass directions.
Last week we had a mysterious message from a pirate! Ooo arrr!
We had to solve some clues and follow a map to find the treasure.
We all worked as part of a team and had to be very careful that we weren’t spotted by any enemies!
We worked out where the treasure was by reading the clues and looking at the map. Some of us made our own messages and maps!
Finally we found the treasure – golden chocolate stars! Yum!
As part of national fieldwork fortnight, Chestnuts carried out transport and pedestrian counts around the Fellgate estate.
We came back to school and analysed what we had found. We thought about how the council often carry out fieldwork to make decisions on road crossings, traffic calming measures and pedestrian walkways.
Today Hollies went around the local area looking for human and physical features. We checked them off our list and talked about why they were human or physical. We then went to the park to have a little play before making our way back to school.
This morning, the children in Maples class enjoyed exploring our local area and environment, and they found lots of things including insects, metros, trains, trees and cars.
The children also enjoyed some lovely time on our local park. See how much fun they had!
