Reception - Give like Dolly Day
Reception came together to celebrate "Give Like Dolly Day," honoring Dolly Parton and her inspiring love of reading and storytelling. To celebrate her generous spirit, the children shared their favourite stories with one another, filling our classroom with imagination and togetherness. We embraced Dolly’s joy by singing, dancing, and colouring bright, vibrant pictures to spread happiness throughout the room. It was a wonderful day dedicated to sharing kindness, celebrating books, and carrying on Dolly’s passion for bringing joy to others!
Reception Maths - Counting to 5
This week in Reception, our early mathematicians have been exploring cardinality and honing their counting skills up to 5. We have been discovering that the main reason we count is to find out "how many" objects we have in total. Through hands-on activities, the children have practised careful, one-to-one counting, learning the crucial rule of cardinality: the last number we count tells us how many there are altogether. Whether counting physical objects, actions, sounds or pictures, the children have been building strong foundations in number sense and gaining confidence in declaring the final total!
Year 4: Shadow Sculpture
After waiting for the sunshine to appear, Year 4 took their sculptures onto the MUGA to create their Shadow Sculptures as part of their Art unit. We made the 4 Barneys B’s and they were so effective. We are super proud of the end result.
Year 4; Enrichment Thursdays
We had our first Thursday Enrichment session in Year 4 today and the children absolutely loved it. They worked with Miss Carol and made cornflake crispy cakes, weighing, measuring and serving out the mixture. We can’t wait for every group to be able to experience the different activities on offer!
Year 4: National Poetry Day
As part of National Poetry Day, Year 4 decided to write poems based on ‘I Wonder’ by Jeannie Kirby. We decided to use the idea of nature and the children collected lots of ideas through discussion, using their talk tokens. Then end result was fantastic with high quality poems that the children are going to share with the residents of Thorncliffe Nursing Home tomorrow. We also had lots of children reading poems to the class using their oracy skills and we also managed to watch some performance poetry by Michael Rosen. What a wonderful way to celebrate all things poetry!
Year 3 - Science: Clean Coins and Conclusions
Last week in science, the Year 3 class were testing liquids with litmus paper to find out which were acidic and which were alkaline. This week, they used the liquids to soak some dirty coins in order to investigate which liquids were the best at cleaning. They then had to use their results to write a conclusion. They found out that the more acidic liquids were better at cleaning the coins. By the end, we had some lovely, shiny two pence pieces!
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WOW Group - Harvest Planning
We are proud to present this year’s WOW (Worship Our Way) Group, who are all raring to get started. In their first full session they got to work planning some exciting challenges for each class to take part in to raise funds for the Bishop’s Harvest Appeal. Each child will be bringing home a sponsor form soon for their harvest challenge, which they will complete in school after half term. We are sure they will have fun with this year’s appeal!
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Year 5 - Art
Today the children worked in groups to build mixed media 3D art installations inspired by Mrs Ham’s recent worship on plastic pollution and the urgent need to recycle. They used a variety of materials including cardboard, paper, Playdoh, bubble wrap, plastic bottles, plastic cups, clingfilm and rope. The art needed to communicate the damage plastic can do to our environment using visual and interactive elements. The children did a wonderful job of working together to create powerful and unique pieces of art.
KS2 Football Training
Today, KS2 enjoyed their after-school football training, focusing on attacking overloads. The children worked on creating and exploiting 2v1 and 3v2 situations, looking at how to use width, movement and quick passing to create space and get into goal-scoring positions.
Year 6 - Building Circuits
Today in Year 6, the children built electrical circuits to investigate how adding more bulbs to a series circuit affects the output. They worked scientifically by making predictions, carefully constructing their circuits and observing how the brightness of the bulbs changed as more bulbs were added. The children then discussed their findings and used their observations to explain how the number of bulbs in a series circuit affects the circuit’s output.
Craft Club Trick or Treat Bags
For the past 2 weeks at our after school Craft Club, the children have been creating mixed media trick or treat bags! In week 1 they designed their bag on paper before adding colour with fabric pens. This week, they used felt to create the main design and then added ribbons and beads for extra colour and texture. I wonder how full these will be on 31st October!
Reception- Owl Babies
This week, Reception class' learning has been inspired by the beloved story Owl Babies, which linked wonderfully with our discussions about how each of us is special and how important our families are to us. Across our provision, the children are busy exploring the story through hands-on creative activities while working hard on their fine motor skills. They are experimenting with painting techniques using sponges to create realistic feather textures on their owls, and they are practising their pencil grip and control by carefully drawing patterns on owl templates. In our creative area, the children are enjoying making their own owls using collage materials, and they are bringing the characters Sarah, Percy, and Bill to life by crafting them out of playdough and additional resources to retell the story. To build up their hand strength and precision, they are having great fun using tweezers to pick up and feed worms to the owls. We are so proud of all their hard work and creativity.