Art in Y4GM
Today in Y4 children learnt about a new artist, Daisy Birch, who uses ink pen and stippling to create tone in her work!
Today in Y4 children learnt about a new artist, Daisy Birch, who uses ink pen and stippling to create tone in her work!
In our DT lessons, we’ve been learning how the Royal Opera house design their sets for their theatre productions. Based on the story Hansel and Gretel, we have created our […]
Acorns have enjoyed outdoor play and learning in the lovely sunshine.
The children in year 3 have been busy looking at the emergency services and who would you call in different types of emergency. They used their critical and creative skills […]
In our Literacy lessons, we have been using the story of Hansel and Gretel to write a diary based on Hansel’s perspective. Today, we thought about how the characters would […]
The children have been looking at the movements of particular farm animals and how we can recreate their movements through dance. The children used flocking to work as a team […]
Yesterday we held a wonderful planting family engagement session with our parents. They worked together to create plant pots before planting a beautiful plant to take home and look after. […]
As stimulus for our learning we have listening to the story What the Ladybird Heard at the Seaside by Julia Donaldson.
The children in year 3 have been testing different soil samples to see which soil would be best for growing vegetables especially tomatoes! The children used independent and dependent variables […]
The children in year 3 have enjoyed being creative and learning facts about Marianne North. The artist will be linked to our picture this project and will also be linked […]
In Year 3, we have been looking at some of the vegetables that are grown on a farm. We wanted to taste some vegetables to put on a pizza and […]
In Acorns this week we have had a busy week, having lots of adventures playing and learning.
With our grownups we have been discussing our topic question where will our adventure take us. Over the next two weeks we are reading the story Whatever Next by Jill […]
The children have had fun exploring Easter themed activities.
Today we invited our wonderful parents and carers to come support the year 3 and 4 children in their DT learning, making a Sri Lankan Curry! Thank you so much […]
We have been learning about “shun” endings, focusing on -tion and -ssion this week. Today we practised the rules we have learnt to organise words into their correct columns.
What an absolutely fantastic afternoon in Year 5 preparing and hosting a Tudor banquet! First the children prepared and cooked Pottage and Yeoman’s Pudding and then everyone was treated to […]
Following on from our artist study on Owen Mann in Y5 the children have been making clay Tudor roses. The children looked carefully at a Tudor rose and used their […]
In Acorns we been learning about height, length and mass, we have compared farm animals and talked about which is taller, longer or shorter. We have also began exploring the […]
The children in year 3 have been looking at measuring mass of objects. We had to find objects around the classroom and estimate their mass. The children then used weights […]
In year 3, we have been following on from our explanation text about the water cycle and conducted our own scientific experiment! We have used food bags and drawn on […]
On World Book Day the children used a ‘Little People, Big Dreams’ book as the basis of their work. Can you guess which inspirational person we used to support our […]
This afternoon the children in Year 5 began an artist study on Owen Mann. The children will learn all about him before using some of his techniques to create a […]
The children in year 3 have enjoyed experiencing an hour of being in the footsteps of a farm vet. The children enjoyed watching a live lesson which included a check […]
In year 3, we spent a week looking at the story and the morals behind “There is a rang-tan in my bedroom!” We created our own storyboards and then used […]
The children are excited about how tall the sunflowers have grown already. They are looking forward to taking them home and looking after them. Some of the comments from the […]
Children in Y4 started creating their own dance masks based on traditional Sri Lankan masks. We got extra messy with Mod Roc but really enjoyed creating interesting shapes and ridges […]
The children in year 3 are extremely proud of themselves for learning the first few steps of a Kandyan dance! They used their resilience skills to keep going, even if […]
In year 3, we have been painting our masks in the style of our artist. We have been using the skills we have learnt to recreate our masks ready for […]
The children in Year 3 haven begun a science experiment which will focus on a length of time but also links to our current topic of the water cycle. We […]
In Acorns this week we were inspired by the famous artist Vincent Van Gogh. With our grownups we looked at the painting ‘Sunflowers’ that the famous artist painted. We then […]
Our latest family engagement session was a huge success with 12 families creating story sacks to take home. Families chose a book and then created resources to help them retell […]
Along with England football we encouraged our girls to participate in football activities today. It was fantastic to see so much participation and the girls having fun
Today Y5 shared their learning in whole school assembly before we gave out our weekly awards.
In Y3, we have all discussed our own inspirations and we are inspired by these job roles or people. We then began looking at Hans Christian Anderson and used his […]
Yesterday in maths Year 5 combined their maths learning on decimals with some OAA activities. The children were given decimals in the wrong order and had to work as a […]
In year 3, the children have been using mod roc to create their own masks in the style of Sara silzerberg! They have begun by using newspaper to create features […]
In year 3, we completed a range of activities linked to times tables all day! We completed rangoli patterns and emoji patterns using answers from our times tables and then […]
This morning we held a whole school TT Rockstars morning. Thank you to the parents and carers who joined us this morning to take part in times table activities with […]
Today children in Y5 look at what goods are imported and exported into or from the country and why. The children used this information and data provided to draw graphs […]
Teamwork, resilience and high expectations- look what they can achieve! Amazing outcomes Year 5 ❤️
In year 4 we have been learning about fractions, and have been focussing on subtracting fractions for the past few days. Today we played a 4-in-a-row game against a partner […]
Wow! Look at these amazing masks and food chains the Yeah 4 Children have been making at home. It has been a real pleasure to see these being brought into […]
We have been continuing with our fractions learning, and today looked at adding two or more fractions with the same denominator. We completed a dominoes-style group task, and then discussed […]
What a fantastic night we had at Young Voices! Despite the snow threatening out fun, we arrived safely and had a wonderful evening singing songs from Matilda, Moana and Phineas […]
We have been practising using short division in year 4. We have worked collaboratively and supported each other, dividing 3-digits numbers with a 1-digit number (sometimes with remainders). We have […]
In Y6, we have been looking at self-portrait work. We have linked this with our reading of Hansel and Gretel and the bright vibrant colours used in Pop Art and […]
We are reading Handa’s Surprise in Literacy. We have been practising our scissor skills to cut out our own fruit baskets.
In Little Acorns we are always looking for different ways we can make marks.
We have loved looking after our chickens this week. We have had to make sure they have lots of fresh water in the hot weather.