|
This term in year 1, we have been working as part of a team to develop our logical thinking and communication skills. We started off by working together playing team games by passing different balls down the line in a variety of fun ways including up and over, passing side to side and how far the ball would go through our legs without stopping it. We’ve practised our balancing by placing bean bags on different parts of our body whilst moving around the room. We had to work as a team, making sure our team all balanced their bean bag in a different way. One of our favourite activities has been the team challenge games. We were set challenges for our team to travel from one side of the hall to the other. However, we had to stay inside the hoops so we didn’t fall into ‘the swamp’! Some of us used them as boats whilst others used them as stepping stones. The biggest challenge was to get the whole team safely across the swamp when we could only use our two hoops as stepping stones, with only three people allowed in the hoops at one time. We had to really think about this logically in our team and talk through the different ways we could do it! Some of us were successful, working out that we could take three people across, leave two on the other side before one person went back to collect the other remaining two! Next week, we will have a similar challenge but with other equipment to use to move across the swamp whilst carrying different size balls, bean bags and relay batons. Our communication and cooperation skills, which are important elements of team games, have really improved this term.
Are we seriously halfway through March already? What a couple of weeks it has been – escape rooms and dressing up for World Book Day, drawing rivers with chalk in an English lesson and then this week it has been Science week. We have a few extra science lessons to take part in starting with a poster competition about time and even a live lesson at the end of the week. In English we have started to sentence stack a poem about rivers, hence the chalky - art lesson last week. Maths is carrying on with perimeter and moving on to area and our geography lesson links in well with English as we are looking at the importance of water in the world.
For World Book Day this week, Year Six pupils and staff had a memorable day. To commemorate the day, and inspired by the book ‘Little Badman’ (where the main character, Humza aims to be a rap sensation), I made the following rap: Year six staff, in costumes they shine, Inspired by Little Badman, they redefine, Mr. Beven as Humza: rap sensation divine, The energy's electric, it's our time to climb! Pupils diggin' the "footy and booky" quiz, Knowledge and fun, it's the ultimate bliss, In character at the party, they reminisce, Year six vibes - you can't miss this. Escape room antics, fun and doom entwine, Laughter echoes, in every design, From horror to comedy, genres align, Year six reads, expanding minds like vine. Elsewhere, away from the World Book Day antics, the year group have continued working towards their SATs: making the connection between percentages, fractions and decimals in Maths; passive and active voice has been explored and revised by the pupils in Grammar; creating a horror narrative has been chill inducing within English. This week in Reception we have been reading the story ‘Barry the Fish with Fingers’ by Sue Hendra. We have enjoyed designing our own fish with different features.
In maths we have been looking at tall and short and have compared our heights to others in our classroom. We have also been looking at sequencing time, so have decided which time of the day we do things such as brushing our teeth, going to school, watching television and going to bed. We have also explored lots of different ways we can create pictures of sea creatures. We have used paint and crayons for undersea pictures and we have painted a rainbow fish using celery and a puffer fish using forks. |
|
RSS Feed
Contact |
Services |
If you require paper copies of documentation on the website please request a copy through the school office (contact details above).