Thanks to Dom Jinks Class 1 have been introduced to their first Shakespeare play; A Midsummer Night’s Dream. We all took on the roles of different characters and acted out the story as Dom directed, led and inspired us. This was a wonderful session leading us on in our learning of Traditional Tales and also…
To celebrate the end of a fantastic half term of learning Class 1 had a Dinosaur day. We all dressed as our favourite dinosaur and enjoyed a day of stomping, singing, listening to our favourite dinosaur stories once more and reflecting about the things we had enjoyed learning this half term. It was lovely to…
Class 1 invited Willow Class from our federated school in Kenton to come and join in our celebrations of Chinese New Year. We had a lovely time making new friends and learning about how this Spring festival is celebrated. We listened to the story of the Great Race and found out how the years got…
Class 1 had a fantastic trip to the National Marine Aquarium where they met Marina the Mermaid. She taught us all sorts of things about creatures who live in the sea and we were able to tell her what we knew about swimming reptiles that lived at the time of the dinosaurs. We learnt about…
The children in Class 2 had an amazing time at the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth, learning lots of new exciting facts. We went on the Magical Seas interactive tour of the aquarium, which was delivered by one of their expert teaching staff, Andy, who held the childrens attention for 2 hours, enabling them to fully engage and appreciate each…
On Friday Class 2 were really excited to learn another Shakespeare Play. Before the session began Phoebe (Yr1) told us that she really loves Shakespeare, this was the fourth one that the Year 1’s have done, and the 2nd that the Year 2’s have done. Emma’s daddy kindly, with the children’s help, retold King Lear….
Class 2 have worked hard as a team to build up a class Undersea painting- To create the effective ocean colour washes for the background for our display they developed an understanding of how to create shades of a colour. The children then decided which sea creatures they wanted in their Under the Sea world….
Today we had a challenge of hatching our own dinosaur egg. We all had lots of ideas how we would get the dinosaur out of the frozen egg; I’m going to try and cut it out. I’m going to drop it and then it will smash. I’m going to throw it on hard ground. If…
Class 1 have been creating dinosaurs using our ‘Tap a Shape’ construction kit. This creative activity enables us to practice hand eye coordination skills and fine motor skills whilst also developing our creative talents and learning how to use tools safely. It’s also great fun too!
Class 1 have loved immersing themselves in our new topic, ‘Dinosaurs.’ This week we have created our own Dinosaur lands using Playdough and natural materials that we have gathered from our outdoor area. We have been learning that Dinosaurs needed land, water, shelter and food to survive and we included all these things in our own small world…