Yesterday, the Global Goalkeepers dropped off all of your kind donations to the Bishop’s Stortford food bank, who were overwhelmed with the generous donations! Thanks to all of your brilliant support the Bishop’s Stortford food bank can pack up food parcels for those desperately in need! So, we want to say a massive thank you for your help!
We have been so lucky this week as we have had the most amazing time in the forest. Every child in the nursery had a teddy and took it with them in the forest to have a teddy bears picnic. It was wonderful as all the teddies joined us for a delicious snack of strawberries, blueberries and bread sticks. It may have been a little bit muddy but we put our teddies safely on a blanket while we went to explore the forest and to see what fun we could have.
Here are a few photos to show you what we got up to.
We were blown away yesterday when group 1 performed to the rest of Butler class! We were introduced to the Italian words for pluck ‘cogliere’ and how to hold a bow for both violin and cello. The children were fantastic and we thoroughly enjoyed listening to jelly on a plate. Well done!
This week in nursery we have been very busy. We read the story of 'The Mixed up Chameleon' by Eric Carle. It was very funny because the chameleon made lots of wishes to look like other animals but in the end decided it was best to just be a chameleon as he couldn't catch the fly when it got hungry. The children decided to create their own mixed up animals. They drew their own animal and then used different textured tissue paper to stick onto in. We had tigers with crocodile scaly skin and giraffes with zebra stripes. The children used this activity to really practise their scissor hold and were reminded to try and cut away from their bodies ensuring scissor safety when using independently. We also read a Flip Flap animal book where we could mix two animals together. The children loved making silly animals and asking the teacher the name of it for example a 'Flamalo' (Flamingo/Buffalo) and a 'Anthog' (Antelope/Warthog).
In phonics this week we learnt all about the letter sound 'u' and outside the children got to go on an 'under' obstacle course. They went under the den, under the hurdle and soft play arch and under the umbrella. So much fun exploring the letter 'u'.
In science this term, Year 4 are focusing on sound. In this week’s lesson, we looked at how sound travels from an object or person to our ear. We learnt key vocabulary including air particles, vibrations and sound waves. In Moore class we ‘became air particles’ vibrating against each other as the objects starts to vibrate - this way we could see easily how the sound travels through the air.
What a day we have had in year 6, celebrating the Ancient Greeks and some of their biggest achievements. The children enjoyed making their own pitta breads, investigating the Greek alphabet, creating ‘Brilliant or Brutal’ board games and even re-enacting the infamous Battle of Marathon!
We couldn’t have been more impressed with the wonderful array of costumes...we were greeted by Greek gods, goddesses, warriors, Athenians and villains. What a surprise!
Well done, year 6, what a fabulous day we have had - and what a fantastic group of historians you are.
This afternoon, the children in year 5 explored the art or powerful and persuasive speeches to help them with their topic write as Emmeline Pankhurst - leader of the Suffragette movement. The children will be taking the role of Emmeline Pankhurst and will deliver a speech to the ‘public’ in an attempt to convince more people to join the Suffragette movement. From this afternoon’s session, the children have identified that an effective speech needs to be assertive instead of passive or aggressive in order to get people to listen
Year 3 have worked exceptionally hard this week, from historical researchers, mathematical problem solving, wolf lawyers and scientific investigations we have done it all!
History
We have explored how the Romans have invaded Great Britain and considered how they could be considered clever or criminal.
At the start of the week we thought that the Romans were more criminal as they invaded to steal cattle, land and even people! However, as we have investigated this further we have seen that the Romans were quite clever and brought many good things as well. They helped us create roads, beautiful houses, coins, language and even toilets (lucky us). We presented some key facts to the class and created a fact file of useful Roman inventions.
