Clever little monkeys.

This week, our little monkeys showed just how confident they have become in PE, as they climbed up ladders and clambered through hoops.  Things are looking good for this year's sports day!

 

Investigating capacity.

In maths, the children have been learning about capacity.  They investigated how much water a variety of containers could hold and how many cubes could fit into their own shoe. There was a link here with The Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe- it wasn't entirely random! (Just in case you were wondering.) Both lessons involved the children first estimating and then recording their results. It is great to see that many of the children can now write numbers as well as letters.  Keep practising guys!

 

 

Shabbat Shalom.

To round off a very busy week, the children enjoyed a Shabbat meal. The children enjoyed learning  about Judaism and exploring the meaning behind  artefacts used in this special celebration. We have enjoyed several RE topics so far this year with the theme of celebration-birthdays, Christmas and Easter. It is interesting to contrast Christian celebrations with another religion and enables the children to appreciate similarities and differences between their own families and traditions, and those of others.

 

 

Have a lovely half term everyone!

 



 

 

 

 



Food Revolution Day.

On Friday, along with the rest of the school, we took part in Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Day. The children enjoyed making their rainbow salad wraps with a yoghurt dressing.  Almost all of the children ate them with relish! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In literacy this week, the children made their own seed packets.  Having looked carefully at the information given on real seed packets, they drew illustrations and wrote instructions on how to plant them on the reverse.  These will be coming home next week, so get ready to plant your seeds!

 

 

We have also been discussing the importance of recycling this week. In our Outdoor Adventure sessions, the children recycled plastic containers and plastic bags to make wind catchers to decorate the tree in our playground.  We think they look beautiful!

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you to all the parents who came to watch our phase assembly.  We were very proud of all our children!

 

Finally, is it just us or are teachers getting younger these days?

 

 

 







 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Skipping into the Summer term.

Last week, the children were lucky to have a session with an expert skipping teacher.  We played several games using skipping ropes and the children had great fun. We will certainly be using some of the skills we learned in our future PE lessons.

 

    

Our seed investigation.

We have been watching our cress and bean seeds grow with great interest this week.  We found that the seeds planted in soil were the most successful, followed by those planted in sand. We enjoyed eating our cress sandwiches, knowing that we had grown the cress ourselves!

We are still waiting for our mystery seeds to grow.
A few green shoots have appeared, but we still have no idea
what they will grow into!