We welcomed new visitors this week in Year 5, to help with our science topic. The children have explored , through acting, the life cycle of insects and we focussed on caterpillars going through metamorphosis. The children also finished off their art work from world book day! The children worked extremely hard with their assessments and independent writing this week. Well done Year 5!
We have had another amazing 2 weeks in nursery. The children have been fantastic and have had a great time using the ‘car wash’ that we have set up outside on the track.
We would like to welcome Matilda, our new pupil, to nursery. She has settled in so well and has made some great friends. Well done, Matilda.
We have been continuing to look at our topic of Transport by looking at emergency vehicles and construction vehicles. The children have been linking their knowledge of vehicles and shapes and have been using 2D shapes to design their own forms of transport. We have also been junk modeling vehicles.
In our SCARF (Safety, Caring, Achievement, Resilience, Friends) lessons we have been thinking about how we can persevere on our activities and how, if we keep trying and don’t give up, we will get better and better at the skills we are learning. We used the Book, ‘Giraffes Can’t Dance’ to help illustrate this when Gerald the Giraffe showed resilience
Our Religions around the World topic is Spring, and we have been linking the Easter story to new life at springtime, looking at baby animals, new buds on trees, new leaves and of course the Easter egg! We used Purple Mash on the iPads to design our own patterns on Easter eggs.
We also learned abut life cycles, and in particular, the life cycle of a frog and created our own frog life cycles.
We have completed planting our sunflower seeds and will now see what happens to them over the coming weeks and months – will they grow to be taller than the children?
We have had fun continuing our Transport themed topic! We have been reading the story 'You Can't take an Elephant on the Bus' by Patricia Cleveland-Peck, and wrote our own sentence about what animals you can't take on transport, for example 'You can't take a tiger on a train'.
Mr McIntosh made a fantastic
car wash for us outside. Alongside our hand car wash we enjoyed washing the
cars and pretending to be customers. Some of the teachers might bring their
cars in next week as they were so good at getting the dirt off the bikes and
cars! This helped us with our turn taking skills, communication and language
and use of imagination.
Finally, a big thank you to all the parents who came to our Reception Exhibition of Work! It was lovely to see so many of you. We hope you enjoyed seeing their achievements as much as we do.
This week in Year 1 we have been very busy!
We started the week by planning and writing our diary entries about the Ducklings from Year 2 coming to visit us! We thought carefully about our use of vocabulary needed included time connectives and past tense verbs.
In Design and Technology we went to look at play equipment in our school to evaluate them, we talked about how they were joined and which materials were used to make it. This is going to prepare us for designing some play equipment for an African School.
Finally Science this week has been very smelly! The children closely observed some real fish, looking at their special features such as fins, scales and gills. They then made careful observational drawings and labelled them.
Year 2 had a fabulous World Book Day.
We started our day off by having a quiz with Bellatrix Le Strange, the Snow Queen and Cruella De Vil. Then we introduced ourselves as the characters that we had come as and the word that we had chosen to describe them.
We then travelled to Narnia to meet the terrifying Snow Queen! She told us her story and we discovered just how deceitful she really was!
Throughout the day we shared our favourite books and enjoyed lots of new ones too!
As World Book Day approaches, we felt this is an ideal time to release our exciting Windhill21 Amazon Book Wishlist for the school.
We have had various requests from families for alternative ways to inform you of the resources required to support teaching and learning and we felt this was a great way to help the school and get your child involved at the same time.
The staff have always been very grateful for your generous donations via the WSA and other fundraising events held at school. To that end, we have decided to create a Wishlist on Amazon. The list contains a variety of both fiction and non-fiction books with some being designed to support the different topics that the children learn about.
You can search for the list using the following link:
www.amazon.co.uk |
You can add an item from our Wishlist as you complete your shopping. The books range in year group, price, quantity, and priority. We would kindly request that your book is delivered to your home address so that your child can bring it in and share it with the class.
Your child will also be provided with a sticker to name and date their book donation before adding it into their book corner. We feel that this is an exciting way to show that your book was very generously donated to the school and appreciated for years to come.
A BIG Thank You from all the teachers at Windhill21; we very much appreciate your support.
Year 4 have had a busy few weeks in class presenting their speeches to one another. Congratulations to Frida and Ben for winning the class competition and going onto to represent year 4,
This morning we visited the Trinity Church Night Shelter. We took our donations with us and asked lots of questions about who visits the shelter, why they might visit and what it looks like. We had the opportunity to look around the shelter and inside the new ‘pods’. This means that every one that stays there has their own little room to sleep in. Below, we have attached lots of information that we learnt!
