Thank you to Premier for coming in and doing some dance lessons with both Class 2 and 3! They’ve had a blast!
Identifying and building 3D shapes
Today we looked a little more into 3D shapes – matching shapes to their names and actually building them out of Clixi. We looked at the different properties of a 3D shape as well such as it’s faces, edges and corners (vertices). Look out on My Maths at tomorrow for some new homework on shape…. Read more »
Pyramid building using Maths
This week we have started our new ‘Amazing Architecture’. We will be looking at lots of different countries around the world and exploring what amazing sights they have! We will be looking at their amazing sculptures, statues and buildings as well as looking into their culture and how it compares to us in the U.K…. Read more »
Truthful
This half term we are focussing on our Christian value – Truthful. Thank you to George who lead our worship today linking The Parable of the Sower with our value. I was very proud of the children who thought about how they can be good people and tell the truth; even when its difficult to… Read more »
Rotary donation
The RotaKids met with Bryan Davenport from Rotary Club today to receive a cheque for the school. The donation will be used to purchase lockers for Class 3. Thank you Rotary and RotaKids for your hard work. We look forward to the next project.
Persevering
Today, in Collective Worship, we reflected on the Queen’s Ascension to the throne in 1952 following the death of her father King George VI. We reflected on Queen Elizabeth II perseverance throughout her 70 year reign.
Maths – shape
New week – new learning! WE have focused on shape this week in maths (2D shape in particular). First, we recapped on some of the 2D shapes that we already knew and did a little more learning on some more… pentagons, hexagon, octagon, rhombus etc. We did a carousel of activities and they did such… Read more »
Science: the skeleton
This week, Class 2 and 3 took their learning outside to put on ‘outdoorsy’ spin on the human skeleton. We have been looking at the skeleton, what it’s purpose is and the bones that we have. We worked in groups to make our very own skeletons out of whatever we could find outside and labelled… Read more »
Chinese New Year!
Yesterday, Class 2 and 4 celebrated the year of the Tiger with a food tasting activity. Class 4 made numerous rice dishes for Class 2 to taste – it tasted and smelt delicious! Thank you for a lovely afternoon Mr Hopegood and Class 4 Mrs Archer and Class 2
Zones of Regulation (ZoR)
Hello all, Just wanted to do a little recall about the Zones of Regulation and how we are using it in school. The Zones of Regulation is a curriculum and it uses a systematic, cognitive behavioural approach to teach self-regulation (how we manage our feelings). ZoR helps to teach mindful behaviour by categorising all the… Read more »