Recently, half of Moore class took part in their strings concert where they performed what they have learnt this term in their music lessons with Mrs White. The played cellos, violins and even a double bass and made a brilliant orchestra!
Parents of children in the group will have received a video of them playing but please find a photo below too :)
Last week, Year 4 have been debating the above question. The children have come up with lots of arguments for and against this question where they showed they could take the opinions and beliefs of lots of different people. We even had a class debate where the children voiced their thoughts!
Next week we will be writing discussion texts about this subject so stay tuned for more!
As part of Year 3's PSHE lessons, we've been taking part in Anti-Bullying Week. The children had a thoughtful and sensitive discussion about the roles they could play to help someone who was being bullied. We discussed bullying in schools, as well as in the wider community. As a class, the children passionately agreed they wanted to celebrate differences and stand up against bullying. We talked about the ways we could safely do this and discovered that we all have an important part to play.
In Reception, we have been exploring the concept of length. We were set a challenge to find the perfect sized sticks to make our very own stick people! Using measuring tapes, string and unifix cubes, we got busy measuring.
We particularly enjoyed the following adaptations and hope you do too!
In the desert,
Fennec Foxes have large ears so that they can hear very quiet sounds and they can also let out excess heat when they are very hot!
Lions have fur which is camouflaged with the colour of the sand - this means that they can hide from their prey and sneak up on them!
Camels have leathery soles on the bottom of their feet to protect them from the hot sand! They also have these leathery pads on their knees so that they can kneel down.
In the ocean,
Turtles have a hard shell to protect them from predators! They are also cold blooded so that their body temperature regulates itself in the ocean water.
All fishes that live in the sea have gills to breathe through.
This afternoon in our topic lessons, the children were introduced to our Art and design project - Mayan Worry dolls and sleeping bags. To kick start this project, the children looked at some Mayan glyphs and decided which one they would like to use for the print on their Sleeping bag. They then had a go at drawing this design into their books, ready for next lesson, where they will be drawing it onto polystyrene ready for the ink!
Wow, Year 4 have had a very busy couple of weeks! Firstly, we were so impressed with the children's descriptions of the Harry Potter character Bellatrix. They used amazing adjectives and powerful verbs to show how fearful Bellatrix is!
In maths this week, we have been measuring - mass and length! We even completed an investigation to work out the weight of items in the classroom.
We have also been doing lots of science for our new topic, Human Impact. This has involved looking at different habitats of animals and how they have adapted to survive there. Did you know, geckos have sticky pads on the soles of their feet to help them climb? Did you know, camels store fat in their humps so that they don't need to eat as often? Did you know, fennec foxes have large ears to allow out excess heat?
Year 1 Newsletter
Scrumptious Smoothies!
We have been food technologists over the past couple of weeks in Year 1 and have been taste testing a variety of shop bought smoothies. We looked at the packaging and the nutritional information shown on the traffic light system. The strawberry and banana and mango and passionfruit smoothies were definitely the favourites but the cucumber, kiwi and lime smoothie did not go down as well!
After this we decided that we would like to make our own forest fruit smoothies and in our next lesson, we tasted 5 different forest fruits. After trying them all, we chose our favourites that we would like to include in our smoothie recipe. Mrs Smith and Mrs Witney were very proud that all the children tried all the different fruits even when they weren't too keen! We cannot wait to make our own smoothies and taste how delicious they are! We will also be designing our own packaging too!
Marvellous Maths
Exploring pentominoes was the name of the game for us earlier last week. A pentomino is a shape made by joining 5 squares side by side. In pairs we made our own pentomino with multilink cubes and then wrote addition number sentences to describe it. This lesson was very tricky but all the children were Agent Openminded and had a go!
Then our maths learning moved onto subtraction! We have been making up our own subtraction stories and writing number sentences to match them.
In CIP we have read the story of The Last Wolf by Mini Grey. It is a thought provoking story of Little Red who goes off in search of a wolf in the forest. She discovers the last wolf, the last lynx and the last bear living a house in a tree trunk. Little Red realises that they are the last animals living in the forest because the rest of their habitat has been cut down to create space to build houses. As a result she decides to grow some trees to replant the forest.
We made lists of the things we would pack in our rucksacks to take on a forest adventure. We also wrote speech and thought bubbles to add to pictures from the story.
Year 6 continues to be a hub of activity and a hive of learning! This week, the children completed their hot write in English, describing a World War I soldier 'going over the top' and facing the terrifying reality that was The Somme. After having been immersed in images, film clips, diaries and letters the children set to the task with real enthusiasm and zeal. We have been blown away by the outstanding writing the children have produced - emotive, full of rich vocabulary and show casing an excellent command of figurative language and sentence structure. We look forward to sharing it with you.
In PSHE, we managed to board the 'Life Bus' with the help of zoom and the Immersion Room. Year 6 all enjoyed a helpful session on the importance of looking after their physical and mental well-being, and came up with some unique and creative solutions to help them stay happy and healthy in these strange, lockdown times.
Our Maths lessons have focussed on that all important life skill...working out percentages. The children will all be very well-equipped to make the most of any sales that are up and coming, as they have shown an impressive grasp of how to work out both percentages of amounts - and fraction, decimal and percentage equivalents.
Science has been an experimental time this week! We have been looking at how we can get a beam of light from A to B...and in the process, proved that light travels in straight lines. We also discussed how we need a light source to be able to see, so even if we think a room is pitch black - if we can see anything inside, there must be a light source bouncing off the object and entering our eyes!
We rounded off our week with a live zoom with the World Wildlife Foundation on how we can help save our planet, which ties in with our work in RE on how different religions view Earth. The children shared some wonderful ideas on changes they could make - or changes we could make as a class and school- to help make a positive impact on the world we live in.
We look forward to sharing more of our learning adventures with you this week.
The Year 6 Team.
In our weekly music assemblies we’ve been learning about the different sections of the orchestra and how they work together. We've listened to extracts from The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Paul Dukas) and Carnival of the Animals (Saint-Saens) and have discussed how the instruments represent the story and the animals.
The children have been composing their own rhythms using crotchets, quavers and rests and have enjoyed performing them with percussion instruments.
Over the last few weeks we have been learning about addition and subtraction (including regrouping) using the column method. The children have been using dienes and a place value mat to understand the concept of exchanging one ten for ten ones. We had lots of fun playing the Banker’s Game, starting with 99 and taking it in turns to roll a dice and subtract that number (exchanging when necessary) until they reached 0.
In Literacy, we’ve been working on character descriptions, inspired by a range of interesting characters from Miss Trunchbull (Matilda) to Bellatrix Lestrange (Harry Potter). The children have successfully used powerful adjectives, verbs and adverbs, alliteration, metaphors, similes, prepositional phrases and interesting sentence starters to create some wonderful character descriptions, bursting with rich vocabulary.
Here are a few soundbites:
“Her deathly, pale skin was translucent like water. Lurking in the shadows, she would cackle all night long.”
“She had teeth like crumbling tombstones. Her unruly raven-black hair cascaded down her deathly pale back. Encrusted with filth, her long bony fingers drummed on the table.”
In PSHE we’ve been looking at ways to look after our physical and mental wellbeing. As part of our learning, we enjoyed a virtual visit (via Zoom) from Nancy and Harold the giraffe from SCARF who talked to us about kindness and staying healthy and happy. The children took part in a quiz about exercise, sleep and hygiene and completed a booklet with ideas about how to help their mental wellbeing. The session was great fun and enjoyed by all!
This week year 2 travelled to London, 1666 to experience what it was like during the Great Fire of London during a 'Fire Of London' workshop ran by Mrs Moore and Mrs Millward.
We listened
to slow music and acted out as if we were running from the fire in 1666.
We performed
in front of each other and chanted parts of the story.
We all had a great time and used the drama activities to create some fantastic pieces of writing. Thank you Mrs Moore and Mrs Millward!
