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Year 6 have been working on developing their gymnastic skills this half term. So far we have practised mirrored and matched balances, including counter balance and counter tension balances. Today we moved on to plan routines including working on a piece of apparatus. There were some great ideas…

Year 4 have been making buildings with security lights. As part of our topic, Let’s Travel, we have thought about how we can keep our home safe when we go on a journey. The security lights are triggered when pressure is put on the doormat. The internal circuit is completed.
We had to design our…

Today we made our own bread using our designs. The basic recipe was the same but some of us chose whole meal or 50:50 rather than white bread. We chose whether to add extra ingredients to the mixture before leaving it to rise. The bread was then cooked. 

Tomorrow we will be decorating our…

Today Year 6 re-enacted a Passover meal. As we tried each of the symbolic foods we recalled the story of the Exodus. We tried to imagine what a Jewish family might be feeling and the significance it holds for them. You can probably tell by the photos who tried the bitter herbs; which remind Jewish…

In French we have been learning to say the date and our birthdays. We are pretty good at the days of the week now as we know a good song to help us remember them! Today we made paper ‘fortune tellers’ to help practise saying them.

Today we heard the Bible story where Jesus stilled the storm and saved his friends from drowning! We learned how this amazing act shows Jesus' power and miraculous abilities. We acted out the story in groups and recorded how we would have felt during the storm whilst Jesus was sleeping and after…

Today we have been following the path of food through the digestive system from beginning to end. It was messy but lots of fun. 

In P.E. this half term we have been developing our gymnastics skills.  We have learnt how to jump, roll, travel and balance.  We also practised putting these actions together to create a sequence.  In these pictures, you can see us applying our skills on the large apparatus.  It was trickier than…

In maths we have been learning all about 2D and 3 D shapes.  It is really tricky to know how many vertices a 3D shape has so Mrs Cross challenged us to make some using mini marshmallows and cocktail sticks.  They were tricky to make too but we managed it in the end.  Counting marshmallows was…

In literacy today we used a technique called ‘hotseating’ to find out more about the characters in our story.  The person in the hotseat today was a wolf from the pack.  They had to think carefully about how they felt on their long, dangerous journey and explain their feelings when they realised…

After listening to the story of Noah’s Ark, the children wanted to make their own rainbow. They have gathered loose parts from all around Nursery to create it. We talked about the colours needed and what indigo and violet might look like. 

We have celebrated with our friends in Nursery. We have taken part in lots of craft activities and tried to eat Chinese food with chopsticks.