Story planning- creating a main character
Today, we started to plan our own WW2 narrative, based on the ‘Letters from the Lighthouse’ story. The main focus for the lesson was creating a main character for our story. To support the children with this process, they used iPads to research elements of the 1930s period to research things like…
Little Red Riding Hood story sequencing
In English we sequenced the little red riding hood story and then drew a story map!
Gymnastics
In gymnastics this week we having been performing a sequence of movements including rolls and balances.
French Day
The children across the whole school had a great day today, celebrating European languages Day! They experienced food tasting, art, DT and French language activities. Have a look at some of the photos below.
Dabbing, Stippling, Pointillism
In art we have been using acrylics to mix primary and secondary colours adding white to make tints and black to shade. We also learn the techniques of dabbing, stippling and pointillism.
Life in the trenches in World War 1
We have been learning about life in the trenches in World War 1 and recreated our own trench with look out points and other special features. We then wriote about how we would feel if we were a soldier in the trench.
World War 2 Topic
We have continued our topic focus on the Second World War this week, looking in particular at the Battle of Britain. Children learned how the battle was fought and how it was ultimately won by the allied forces.
As part of this learning, we looked at real life accounts from pilots who flew in…
‘Thankful playdoh’
We used our reflection area and our ‘Thankful playdoh’ to make models of things we are thankful for - ‘ I made a spider because I am thankful they catch flies’
Effects of friction in materials
In science we have been investigating the effects of friction in materials. We used rough and smooth surfaces to test how far our materials travelled.
Learning staff notation
In music we have been learning about staff notation and today in our unit,S. African Music, we played a harmonic ostinato using the glockenspiels
Identifying object materials
We looked at different materials in Science and identified different class objects and the material they were made from!
Our reflection area
We have been spending time in our reflection area, thinking about things we are thankful for.