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Date: 28th Feb 2025 @ 4:22pm
Welcome Back to spring 2 term in 1AI!
What a busy start to the term we have had! On Wednesday we had a visitor called Alison who came into school. She set up a Toy Museum in the hall and took us around four rooms. We saw some teddy bears, moving toys, dolls and an imagination room. We learnt lots of facts about each type of toy and used some drama to tell stories linked to the toys. It was lots of fun!
Date: 28th Feb 2025 @ 2:34pm
This half-term, year 3 are learning all about plants in Science.
To begin our topic, we asked the question 'what do plants need to grow?'
We completed some research that showed us they needed air, water, space, light and soil...but we wanted to test if this was true or not.
We have now set up an experiment, where we have planted 6 different basil seeds. In each plant pot, we have removed one of the different things that plants need. We have also planted one seed that has air, water, space, light and soil so that we can compare.
We will water them (apart from the one where water is removed!) each day, and see if the basil plant grows or not.
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 2:52pm
What a wonderful first week back!
Maths
This week in Maths we have started our shapes unit. The children have started to recognise, name and describe different polygon shapes. We went on a 'polygon hunt' around our classroom and outdoor area where the children worked together to take photos and describe the different real life polygons. Take a look at some of our photos below:
History
In history this week, we launched our new unit 'What did Queen Victoria do for us?' We started our launch with our art objective to make our own paper crowns. This week, the children spent time designing their own crowns and practiced their own paper scissor skills such as zigzags, curling and fringing.
English
With our Queen Victoria launch in history, we have started to look at non-chronological reports all about Queen Victoria's life in English. This week, the children identified the features of non-chronological reports and worked together to find these in different reports such as information booklets. On Thursday, we had our 'ideas party', the children worked with their table buddies to write the different question sub-headings that they could use in their reports.
PE
We had an amazing PE session with Coach Amy on Tuesday. This half term, the children are working on their throwing and catching skills. This week, the children used tennis balls to practice how we can throw up and catch a ball, cupping our hands and holding the ball close to our hands to protect it.
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 11:09am
This week we have launched our new topic -Would you rather play with toys from the past or toys from the present?' We are already very excited about this topic because we LOVE to talk, play and learn about TOYS!
On Wednesday, we had a very exciting morning because a visitor came and shown us her Toy Museum! We saw lots of intersting toys form the past and the present. The visitor told us many interesting facts about how the toys had changed over time and what materials they were made from. We also had lots of fun using our imagination to become toys ourselves and even invent toys of our own!
In our writing lesson, we will be writing a recount about what happened when we went to visit the Toy Museum so that we can tell our parents all about it!
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We are absolutely, amazing at generating adjectives!
Date: 24th Feb 2025 @ 12:55am
Hello,
In English, we have been generating adjectives to describe a setting. We have been learning about Wuhan in China and have been using adjectives to describe what we would see, smell and hear. We used the adjectives to write descriptive sentences. Our ideas were absolutely, amazing!
We put all our ideas onto our Working wall and used them to help us write descriptive sentences.
Date: 24th Feb 2025 @ 12:39am
Hello,
The children have been working hard to remember their 2 times table. They have counted in steps of 2 using fun songs to help them recall the number facts. They have used the maths area in the classroom to help them group objects into 2's. They have enjoyed exploring the patterns that they can see and use this to sove multiplication equations.
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This class just love to count!
Date: 24th Feb 2025 @ 12:29am
The children have been learning about Wuhan and its location in relation to where it is in China and in the world. As part of the launch the children found out about some of the traditions in China, how Chinese New Year is celebrated and had lots of fun making masks and puppets. look at some of their work!
As you can see they had lots of fun!
Date: 15th Feb 2025 @ 1:44pm
On Friday, Year 3 spent the day completing a Design and Technology project.
Our design brief was: The first Pharaoh, Narmer, has tragically died. We need to design and build our own pyramids to bury him in and to show the Egyptians how their pyramids should be built. Remember our pyramids need to be as special as he was!
It was a very difficult project, because the pyramids needed to be self-supporting, strong, have an entrance, and traditional Egyptian features.
We spent the day practising how to fold nets, how to strengthen card and paper with laminating, corrugating and ribbing techniques, and designing our pyramids. In the afternoon, we begun to make our final pyramids.
Pharaoh Narmer would have been proud! The final pyramids were fantastic, and we were all very proud of our creations.
Date: 14th Feb 2025 @ 6:30pm
Today we spent time with the people we love in an extended Morning Job.
The children sang along to 'Dream a Little Dream of Me' by The Mamas and The Papas and the adults were so impressed with them. A huge round of applause and then on to a craft activiity. Together, they created collage hearts before the adults wrote beautiful messages of love to the children. After a photo in the love booth, the adults waved good bye.
It was such a special time to share with our families. All of the staff had a tear in their eyes as they reflected about how supportive our parents and carers are. Thank you for coming
Date: 13th Feb 2025 @ 12:21pm
This week we completed our Design and Technology project all about Wind Vanes. We looked at how weather can be measured and started to look at wind vanes in more detail. We looked at their purpose and what they needed in order to show the wind direction. We discussed what an axle was and how it could be used to create a wind vane. We designed the top of our wind vane, made it and evaluated it outside in the playground. We quickly realised that the top of the design shouldn't be too large and the cup needed to be attached securly on the paper plate!
Date: 13th Feb 2025 @ 12:08am
We have really enjoyed reading Michael Morpurgo's amazing book about a boy called Michael who sails around the world with his parents and finds himself falling overboard and washed up on a deserted island- but is he really alone? What a fantastic adventure- we have enjoyed every chapter in this brilliant book and we are looking foward to watching the new animated film version as a treat this week for all our hard work preparing for our SATs! Well done Year 6!
Date: 13th Feb 2025 @ 12:02am
We have been very busy this half term learning lots of different calculations with fractions.
Click the link below to play a game to practise adding and subtracting fractions.
Date: 12th Feb 2025 @ 10:00am
Here is our Spring 2 Parent Overview. Have a look at the exciting topics we will be exploring next half term.
Does the rain fall the same amount around our school? - continued!
Date: 9th Feb 2025 @ 9:06am
After 1 week we measured the amount of rainfall collected in our 3 rain gauges! We were very excited to find out if they had collected the same amount or which one had collected the most.
The results showed that rain gauge 3 in our garden area had collected the most rain with a measure of 40ml! The other rain gauges had collected less than 10ml! We explored why this is and we thought that it was to help the plants grow!
Children's Mental Health Week and Amazing Designs!
Date: 7th Feb 2025 @ 3:53pm
Hello!
This week has been Children's Mental Health week where we have explored the theme 'Know Yourself, Grow Yourself'. The children discussed how they can learn more about themselves and what makes them the person that they are. We discussed that all of us are different. We have our own qualities, talents, thoughts, opinions and personalities. This is what makes our world a wonderful and diverse place. By developing our self-awareness, we can identify and understand how we feel in different situations. This can help to build resilience and confidence. We took part in 'Place2Be's' Inside Out themed activities, creating memory boxes where the children had an opportunity to write their memories and store them inside. We then watched the 'Inside Out' film during Golden Time and discussed the different feelings and thoughts that we have.
Artists in the making!
In preperation for our recount writing next week, we made Chinese New Year dragon hats in design and technology this week. This is also linking to our learning of Wuhan in China and the different celebrations they have compared to Manchester. The children used oragami style techniques to make their dragon face templates and then designed these using lots of different materials. They even practiced their sewing skills and used a needle and thread to make their dragons nose!
Home Reading
Myself and Miss Imran have been really impressed by all of the children who have been reading at home and having their reading records signed. 'Oscar the Reading Owl' has been to lots of houses over the past couple of weeks and we have seen such an improvement in a lot of the children's reading in school.
We do ask that you spend time to listen to your child read every night and log this in their home reading record.
Have a lovely weekend :)
Miss Hindle
Date: 7th Feb 2025 @ 3:45pm
What a fab Friday afternoon we've had in year 6. As part of our light unit, we have been experimenting with torches to see how light travels and what objects are good reflectors of light. The children had a great time.
Date: 7th Feb 2025 @ 12:57pm
This week, year 3 have been writing instructions on how to mummify a person. We have read many different instructions in order to gather information, and have practised writing adverbs and time connectives.
We then wrote our instructions, carefully considering the equipment an Ancient Egyptian would use.
Today, we were able to test our instructions! Year 3 used drama to act out their mummification techniques, and even used toilet paper as their 'soft linen bandages.'
Year 5 Proudly Present Their Ancient Olympics Reports!
Date: 6th Feb 2025 @ 1:20pm
Year 5 have been learning all about the Ancient Olympics and have written fantastic non-chronological reports packed with interesting facts and detailed information. They researched, planned, and organized their ideas carefully to create engaging and well-structured pieces of writing. Everyone is incredibly proud of their hard work—take a look at the attached pictures to see their amazing efforts!
Date: 3rd Feb 2025 @ 6:31pm
Year 1 have been reading 'The Shark in the Park' in English and we have been working hard to write a setting description of the park. We have explored lots of different adjectives, verbs and prepositions! Take a look at our amazing final pieces!
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Date: 31st Jan 2025 @ 1:23pm
Year 3 have completed some fantastic learning this week!
In history, we have explored the legacy of Ancient Egypt. We did this by learning about Egyptian myths, creating and playing an Egyptian game, exploring artefacts and translating hieroglyphs.
In maths, we have begun to explore right angles. We used right angle finders to see what objects around our classrooms had right angles. We also learnt some new vocabulary: angle, fixed point, rotate, clockwise and anticlockwise. Can you remember what they mean?
Date: 31st Jan 2025 @ 12:25pm
This week in our Jigsaw sessions we have been looking how we must challenge ourself to overcome any struggles or difficulties that we may have. Miss Timmins set us the task of drawing around their hands, decorating them and then cutting them out. A lot of us felt quite upset when we were not able to draw around our hands or cut them out. It was quite tricky!!! However, with some perseverence and resilience we managed to do it! Hopefuly this activity showed us that with some perseverence and not giving up attitude that we can tackle aspects of learning that we may find a little bit difficult.
Date: 31st Jan 2025 @ 8:19am
Over the last 3 weeks we have been learning about Little Penguin and how much he wanted to fly. This week we innovated a new page for the text during group time. The children love to draw in Nursery and our learning gives them lots of ideas. Here are a few examples of what the children drew using their knowledge of Antartica and the story 'ICan Fly'.
Wood Street Mission & a visit from 3JH!
Date: 26th Jan 2025 @ 3:52pm
On Friday we had a visit from some volunteers from Wood Street Mission who are a charity helping local people in Manchester. They came with lots of amazing books. We were able to choose five books from the selection for Year 1 and take home for FREE! As soon as we got back to class we wanted to have some quiet reading time and look at our new books. Reading for Pleasure at its best!!!
In the afternoon we had a visit from Miss Higgin's Year 3 class who came to read their own versions of the traditional story 'Cinderella.' We loved listening to them and Renato thought they were 'Amazing!!!' Thank you Year 3!
Date: 26th Jan 2025 @ 3:47pm
In computing this half term we are using our algorithm knowledge and learning how to use Beebots. We have learnt how to use the different command buttons, create an algorithm and test it by inputting it into the Beebot. We also recorded some videos showing reception children how to use a Beebot!
Date: 25th Jan 2025 @ 11:40am
All of year 3 came back to school after the Christmas break, eager and excited to learn. There has been none stop smiles, hard-work and resilience across the year group.
In history, year 3 are learning about the Ancient Egyptians. We have visited Manchester Museum, where we were able to study real Egyptian Artefacts, as well as some items from our previous geography and history learning - such as rainforest animals. This was a great day out, as we were able to connect the learning we have done in the classroom, to the real artefacts we could see in the museum.
In science, we are exploring all things bones and muscles. So far, we have identified the different bones that humans and animals have. We have also worked in teams to create moving skeletons! Next week, we will begin learning about different types of muscles.
In english, we have been reading different versions of Cinderella. We then practised writing dialogue, 2a sentences and using adverbs, before writing our very own versions. On Friday, we visited both year 1 classes and shared our stories. It was amazing getting to read the stories to the younger children, and we were very proud of our work.
