Week 4 – Dentists

10th May 2021Beth Thompson

This week in Class 2, we have explored dentists and teeth. We discussed how we look after our teeth, including looking at how what we eat affects our health and teeth. We got our own toothbrushes and give instructions to each other to practice brushing. We read ‘Alan and his big, scary teeth’ and retold the story, ordering pictures. We also made lots a teeth art.

In maths, we used teeth and mouths to continue exploring halving and doubling, which we were all amazing at! Well done, everyone. For science, we’ve started looking at materials, sorting objects by adjectives like soft, hard, rough and smooth.

We loved exploring our dentist roleplay and scrubbing whiteboard teeth clean with toothbrushes. Thank you all for your hard work this week. Next week we will have fun looking at Vets and our pets!

Marvellous Marvel

10th May 2021Daniel Harrison

This week 6B have been focusing on the life of Stan Lee, the creator of Marvel Comics. Following a couple of weeks looking at different superheroes, this week the class have been creating designs for their own web pages about their creator, Stan Lee. The children have practiced their skills using timelines, ordering events in his life, and have written in their English books about some of their favourite superheroes created by him.

The children have used the school computers to type up some facts about Stan Lee’s life, as well as create a title for their design, using different sizes, fonts and colours to add interest. Taking inspiration from Andy Warhol’s pop-art style, they have also produced a piece of work using a template of their favourite Marvel character to add to their webpage design, before putting it all together and sharing their designs with their peers, and giving lots of positive feedback.

As well as all this, 6B have worked hard (as usual!) in their phonics sessions, and have practiced their subtraction skills using apparatus such as numicon and lego bricks to help them out. They’ve also been in the kitchen, chopping vegetables and cooking noodles to make healthy, but more importantly delicious, stir-fries!

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It’s super-6B!

4th May 2021Daniel Harrison

Continuing with our theme of present day people and characters we admire, 6B have started thinking about Stan Lee, the creator of Marvel Comics. Thinking about what it takes to develop a new superhero, over the course of the week the children have designed and made superhero costumes for their own superhero. The children started with the masks, looking at various masks through history such as ancient Egyptian Pharaoh’s masks, WW2 gas masks and even the modern medical mask, creating a timeline of the different designs. Taking inspiration from this, they used paper mache and thick card to build up a 3D mask of their own and painted these as part of their costume.

Reading up to the part in ‘Traction Man is Here’ where Traction Man receives a woolly romper suit, 6B have considered what materials would be suitable for a superhero costume in science, testing the waterproofing abilities of a range of different materials. They have also considered how superheroes like batman have changed in the way they look from the 1960s to nowadays and discussed this with their peers. Finally they have been learning to use measurements in maths, measuring themselves up for a superhero suit before designing and making their own superhero costumes.

Alongside this the children have been practicing their handwriting and sentence structure, phonics, speaking & listening and have been practicing their independence skills cooking up healthy pizzas in the cookery room.

Week 3 – Medical Professional

4th May 2021Beth Thompson

This week we looked at medical professionals, focusing on doctors, nurses and paramedics. We looked at parts of the body and even made up a skeleton from bones we found around the classroom. We talked about how to keep happy and healthy, doing breathing exercises to relax and sorting healthy and unhealthy foods. We looked at x-rays and made art with cotton buds making up our hand bones.

In maths we looked at shapes, sorting circles, triangles, and squares, as well as identifying shapes in the real world, like clocks and books. In literacy we made poems about hospitals. We looked at pictures of hospitals and described what they could see. For science we played giant operation, using magnets to remove items from the body and using tweezers to remove items that did not move with magnets.

We loved playing doctors, wrapping each other in bandages in the role play area and using boogie boards as wheelchairs to direct our patients to different rooms.

Happy bank holiday weekend! We will see you on Tuesday where we will be looking at dentists.

Climate Change and our Worker of the Week!

4th May 2021Lizzie Tucker

This week our class has been looking at the work of Greta Thunberg and her Fridays for Future movement. Today, we discussed what climate change is and how it affects our planet. Aliesha, showed fantastic listening skills and offered amazing insight into her understanding of renewable and non-renewable energy. Aliesha also produced this astounding work and so has received our Worker of the Week certificate! WELL DONE Aliesha.

 

Famous People

4th May 2021Alex Don

This week the children have been looking at People Who Help Us as part of our ‘Famous People’ topic. We have explored lots of different careers. Next week the children will be looking at Princesses and Superhero’s. Have a lovely bank holiday weekend 2B and enjoy the rest x

A ‘Marvellously Magical’ week in class 4A

4th May 2021Jennifer Tatters

This week class 4A has produced some magical work! As part of our famous people topic this half term, we studied Harry Potter. To start off the week, we were sorted into our Hogwarts houses. We wrote letters home and produced some spellbinding treats including cauldron cupcakes and Butterbeer fudge. We took a trip to Diagon Alley and created a fact file for our magical pets. The children used their imagination to create some unique animals! We took part in a potions class which involved adding acid and alkaline products to boiled cabbage water. We couldn’t believe our eyes when the water changed colour! We took flight in our quidditch lesson and made our own brooms and rules for the game. To finish off our magical week we had a banquet in the style of Hogwarts and tried to recreate the Great Hall. The children have worked so hard this week and should be so proud of themselves. I’m looking forward to another lovely week!

Superheroes assemble!

4th May 2021Chloe Downey

This week we have been thinking about superheroes! What are their powers? How do they help people? Why do they want to help?

We created our own superheroes and thought about their individual qualities and how they would look. We thought about superhero costumes and what they need to be made of to protect us from the elements. Our materials experiment was messy but extremely fun!

We ended the week by thinking about different places that superheroes could travel. We used atlases and Google Maps to find villages, towns and cities around the UK and talked about what we might like there. Where to next?!

2A Police Officers

23rd April 2021Beth Thompson

This week we continued exploring community helpers, focusing on the work of police officers. We discussed how we keep ourselves safe as well as the role of the police who also keep us safe. We played lots of police themed games and read lots of different books to learn about the different things police do for us.

We used police tools, like magnifying glasses and radios to hunt for the alphabet and also used stolen coins to investigate doubling and halving. Using colourful semantics, we made wanted posters and newspaper articles for stories about the missing coins. In science, we continues to look at forces and magnets, pushing and pulling the police car to see how far we could make it go and exploring which materials were and were not magnetic. In computing, we used robots (Kubo and Sphero Mini) to follow directional language, moving the robots from the police station to the crime, debugging and fixing problems along the way.

We were also lucky enough to have a visit from Woody. He came in to say ‘hi’ to us and let us stroke and cuddle him. We also gave him a few too many treats (lucky Woody).

Next week we will continue our topic and look at medical professionals. I hope you all have a lovely weekend and we will see you on Monday!