5B Sharing and caring

23rd April 2021Chloe Downey

This week class 5B have thought about people we admire in our families. We brought in photos of our loved ones and talked about why we care about them. We considered Prince Philip’s funeral and how his loved ones may have felt mourning his death. We all felt very sad for our Queen and identified her as possibly feeling in the ‘blue’ zone.

We created a timeline of our own lives and reflected on how we’ve grown, changed and our hopes and dreams for the future. We all have very exciting plans and look forward to making them a reality!

6B Comics ‘r’ Us

23rd April 2021Daniel Harrison

This week, 6B have been thinking about people we admire, starting with those we admire from films and comics and focusing on superheroes. In English, we have started reading the story ‘Traction Man is Here’ and the children have worked together to answer comprehension questions about the start of the story. Using this as a starting point, the children have been working hard to create their own superhero photo comic strip.

The children have created their own superheroes, building a lego model of their hero and writing down their fantastic ideas about the heroes in their English books. In art the children have built themselves a set for their comic story to take place around, first looking at some famous landmarks from around the UK to give them inspiration, then using recycled junk to build their model. Finally, using some other toys from the classroom, 6B have used the DSLR cameras to set up the different scenes for their comic strips and taken photographs of each one, putting these together and writing out their comic book story.

The children have taken part in their usual handwriting, speaking & listening and phonics activities, as well as learning about personal independence and healthy eating by cooking mini-quiches in the cookery room – hopefully some of these made them home to you all! Last of all the children have started thinking about some modern people we admire, looking at the work of David Attenborough and creating stick insects with natural materials in the garden. Another great week for 6B!

2A Welcome back – firefighter’s week

16th April 2021Beth Thompson

Welcome back, Class 2!

This half term we are looking at ‘Famous People’ in our community who we look up to because they help us. We focused this week on firefighters and the important job they do. We practiced what we should do in a fire, practicing a ‘stop, drop and roll’ procedures, crawling and discussed what number we should call for a fire. We even practiced a fire drill and made fire extinguishers to put out ‘fires’.

We did many science experiments too. We made ice melt in different ways to investigate which would be the quickest. We moved fire engines with magnets and we used a ramp to investigate the quickest way to get Fireman Frank from the station to the fire. In numeracy we focused on shapes. We made shape fire engines with paper and then we made biscuit fire engines with shapes we baked. We also sorted and transported shapes using the toy fire engines. In literacy, we read and made our own scripts, recording our friends’ sentences with the iPad.

This Friday, we will be sent home with a Firefighter training certificate and some optional home activities, including a fireman song. Next we will explore Police Officers.

6B Welcome Back!

16th April 2021Daniel Harrison

This week, the children of 6B have thrown themselves into our new topic of modern day famous people. They have talked about famous people they know, both real and fictional, and described a famous person of their choice to the rest of the class (we have learned the names of a lot of youtubers this week!). In maths we have practiced using place value, working out which is the tens and which is the ones, and have baked some banana and blueberry muffins in cookery as healthy treats.
The children have thought about themselves and created timelines of memories they have from being younger to right up until now, using cotton buds to paint images with. In science they have been testing out the properties of different materials with a range of experiments that have included using torches, testing flexibility with lego bridges and determining softness of the material with playdough.
Finally, in outdoor learning this week the children have done some tree rubbings, looking closely at the different bark textures, and have tended our area of the garden, weeding and watering to encourage our vegetables to grow. A great start to the term!

5B Easter fun!

16th April 2021Chloe Downey

This week we have enjoyed exploring eggs and chocolate! We tried different types of chocolate and talked about what we liked about them before creating our own chocolates using a range of different textures. We voted for our favourite chocolates and used the information to create tally and bar charts. In the school house we made our own snacks and hot drinks and practiced taking turns in conversations to share our likes and dislikes.

We ended the week with computing! We programmed Codeapillars and Ozobots to follow a trail. Our Codeapillars found some Easter eggs on the way which, after answering questions, revealed a secret word (Easter!) It was a challenge to create routes that our robots could follow but lots of fun!

We hope you have a wonderful Easter!

 

5B All aboard The Dales train!

16th April 2021Chloe Downey

We arrived back to school to find that something peculiar has landed in The Dales School yard… train tracks! Where are they from? Why are they here?

We took a virtual reality train ride to explore some of the different places trains can take us. We passed hills, valleys, beaches and woodlands on our journey. We made train tickets for our dream destinations and talked about why we would like to visit certain places.

Mr Groundwater revealed some great plans for our very own Dales train! We wrote him letters saying what we would like the train to look like. A Pokemon train? A soft play train? We hope he replies soon!

11B Super Heroes

16th April 2021Tracy Park

We have had a “super” start to the week with the children in 11b learning all about superheroes both in real life and fiction.  They started to look at what a real life super hero is and what characteristics they have.  Taking our theme into consideration we asked the children to think about what they would like to do when they are older and how they would go about succeeding in this career.  We set up an interview chair for them to practice answering some questions that may be asked in a real interview.  They did great and had lots of fun doing this.  We have also moved on to poetry with the children choosing a section of a verse and drawing a picture that is linked with this.

2A End of Spring term

26th March 2021Beth Thompson

This week was our last week together before the Easter holidays. Because of this, we did lots of fun Easter activities, including making crafts for our hampers and lots of yummy cooking. We had an excellent egg-lympics on Friday, completing tasks like bunny hop race and an egg and spoon race, as well as an egg hunt around the class, practicing our instruction following as well as directional knowledge. We read lots of Easter themed books, including: We’re going on an egg hunt, Peter Rabbit’s Easter surprise, Easter parade, and The Great Egg-scape.

We’ve had a lot of fun in science this week, making an egg zip line, completing an egg sink or float experiment, and even making our very own bath bombs.

We hope you have a lovely Easter and enjoy your well deserved break.

See you in two weeks for an exciting, new term.

6B Preparing for Easter

25th March 2021Daniel Harrison

This week class 6B have been getting ready for Easter and working on our space in the garden. The children have talked with each other about what they are planning to do in the Easter holidays and have written about it in their English books. The children have also practiced giving compliments to each other and done lots of turn-taking practice, showing they are good listeners and waiting for their turn to speak. In Maths they have been working on 2D shapes, identifying the features of different shapes like how many corners they have or how many sides, and using clues to work out which shape they need to make a model of.

In science the children have been out in the garden, thinking about what plants need to grow, and planting out our own vegetable patch to grow all sorts like carrots, lettuces and peas. They then chose pictures and created a document on the laptops to print and put in their science books, explaining what they did in the garden. The children have baked sponge cakes for making cake-lollies as a treat to eat on Friday afternoon, to celebrate all the hard work they’ve done this term, and have made some lovely pop-up Easter cards.

All that’s left to do is have a relaxing Easter holiday and come back refreshed in two weeks time. Hope you all have a lovely break!

11B All aboard

19th March 2021Tracy Park

In 11b this week we have been reading the Magic Train ride. The children have made up their own train station stop about the amazing places they have visited. They were surprised when a train track appeared in the classroom. As part of this theme they have made a variety of trains. In Math we are learning about shape and their properties and have included some of these shapes in their models. For red nose day the children took part in a variety of activities such as blow your nose, pick your nose and where’s your nose.