Year 1 Science: Describing Materials
Year 1 have started their new topic all about materials. We looked at four common materials: plastic, wood, metal and fabric. The children knew lots of objects that are made from these materials. We took turns to feel these objects and then described them using words such as hard, soft, bendy, rough and smooth.
Cross Country Club
Cross country club focused on hill sprints this week and we completed these in Whitehall park. We hope that these boost our fitness by building explosive power, strength and endurance in order to help us keep up a good pace when the race season starts.
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Year 2 Art - Exploring texture through rubbings
In Art, Year 2 have been exploring the marks made on paper when making rubbings of objects with various textures.
Reception Rockpools
The Reception class had a wonderful time exploring rockpools in their outdoor play area. After learning about creatures like crabs, shrimps and prawns who live in rockpools, the children used their imaginations to turn the tray into a coastal habitat. They acted as scientists looking at sea creatures who live in this small habitat and asked lots of questions to understand more about it. This hands-on activity helped the children learn new vocabulary and understand how to care for nature and God's creatures.
Year 5 - PE
The children continued developing the fundamental actions of gymnastics: tuck, straddle, pike, star, front support, dish and arch. Then they developed these actions by adding rotations, balances and jumps using the gymnastics apparatus. The children had time to practice and develop their skills while encouraging each other.
Year 5 - Music
In this lesson, children were introduced to musical notation such as quavers, semi quavers and crotchets. We also studied time signatures and how they are used to count in music. The different time signatures we looked at were 4/4, 3/4 and 2/4.
Year 4 - Computing: Social Media
This half term in Computing, the Year 4 class have been presented with a hypothetical scenario in which all social media has been removed from the Internet. Their task is to design their own social media platform, and in this week’s lesson the children were creating a web of ideas under different headings. They were also practising using the functions they have learned so far in the iSecure app. Each session also presents an online safety task so that the children are constantly being made aware of potential cyber dangers and how to avoid them.
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Year 4 - Maths: Dividing by 10
We’ve been making good use of our place value grids this week in Year 4. They are especially useful in helping children understand what happens to the digits in a number when we multiply and divide by 10 and 100. The children were presented with a number of problems involving dividing by 10 and they used their grids to move all the digits one place to the right. This practical method of moving digits prepares the children to visualise doing this to find the answer later on in their school journey.
Year 1 Art: Jasper Johns Artwork
This week Year 1 created artwork inspired by Jasper Johns. He paints numbers mainly using primary colours and blending in some secondary colours. The children showed lots of skill with their paintings, making sure to outline the number with colour and blending colours together where they meet. Their artwork looks very impressive.
Reception: Stay and Play
We loved welcoming family members from Reception class to our stay and play session. It was lovely to see some children from pre-school attending too. The children completed lots of challenges together and showed how busy they are with their learning in class. Well done! Stay and play continues next Wednesday at 9am.
Year 3- Class Worship-Kindness is Viral: Following in the Footsteps of Positive Influencers
In class worship, we explored this week’s Picture News story about how famous people can influence others to make good choices. We looked at the story of MrBeast and his "1 Billion Acts of Kindness" campaign, which highlights how one person’s influence can inspire millions to take positive action. This linked perfectly with Mrs Ham’s whole school worship yesterday. She spoke about how our small, everyday actions can make a big difference, which is exactly what the children practised in their work today. To finish the lesson, we sang the hymn "My Lighthouse," reflecting on how we can be a "guiding light" for others through kindness, and Seb read a lovely prayer.
Year 6 Junior Jam: French
This week in French Year 6 have been looking at describing the places we might find in a town centre. They also played a game where one child drew a town centre building and the rest of the class had to name it in French. There was also a challenge to write full sentences describing places to visit in our own town centre.