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Date: 24th Jan 2024 @ 8:46pm
This week we worked with Mrs McAffer to learn more art skills. We focussed on drawing skills using different mark making patterns to show texture. We learnt about hatching and cross-hatching marks and used these in our drawings of teddy bears and toys with fur on them. We used the medium of pencils and black felt tip pens to create our drawings. They looked amazing!!!
Date: 24th Jan 2024 @ 4:19pm
This week Reception took a trip to the Sea Life Aquarium to explore under the sea! We saw many animals including stingrays, starfish, sharks, turtles, and some very interesting fish species. All complete with a short workshop where we got to draw our own aquariums.
Date: 24th Jan 2024 @ 2:27pm
This week we looked at some geopgraphy and explored our Race Around the World project in our CC lessons.
The children reminded themselves of the 4 cardinal compass points (N,S,E and W) and learned about the 4 intercardinal points (NE, SE, SW, NW)
We used this knowledge to locate our project checkpoints in an atlas, plot the direction of travel and decide which countries we would pass through on the way to our destinations.
The children really enjoyed using the atlases and finding out more about the World's geography
Date: 21st Jan 2024 @ 4:24pm
Well, another busy week has flown by in the blink of an eye! On Wednesday, we had the joy of being allowed ten minutes play in the snow before it all turned to mush and ice. We even built a little snowman.
The class also enjoyed the science lesson which often becomes a popular memory of year 5 - we were trying to identify the children from their baby photos. We talked about what features change as we get older (size, colour of hair, teeth) and things that don't (shape of body parts like face, hands, eyes). There were a couple that stumped everyone and others who were immediately recognizable.
Next week, we are going to be writing our Greek myths and learning about scaling in maths.
Date: 21st Jan 2024 @ 8:38am
On Wednesday he had a visitor named Alison. She was a Toy Museum Curator and she needed our help! She showed us around her Toy Museum and we saw lots of different toys from the past to the present such as teddy bears, dolls and moveable toys. We also role played being different toys and joined in with the doll disco. In the final room, Alison explained why she needed our help and she asked us to invent toys for her imagination room in her toy museum. We were able to use our imaginations to create some exciting toys and she was very glad for our help.
Next week we will be writing a recount of our experience to share with our parents. We will be using time connectives to sequence the events of the experience and using superlatives to compare the toys and the conjunction but to extend our sentences.
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Date: 19th Jan 2024 @ 3:16pm
This week in Nursery we celebrated Chinese New Year early. We dressed up in traditional chinese clothes, we read a non-fiction book all about CNY. We also cooked chinese food in the home corner and practised using chopsticks. This is what some of the children said when we asked them what they had learnt:
"The lion was dancing"
"We dress up in chinese new year clothes"
"We painted chinese numbers"
"We looked at chinese new year book"
"We eat noodles in the home corner"
"We used chopsticks to eat"
"Chinese people like red"
Date: 19th Jan 2024 @ 2:08pm
Another busy week in 4RJ. We began this icy week with lots of snow on Tuesday, we even went out to the playground and threw lots of snowballs at Mr Jones! In our maths, we have been learning how to translate points and polygons on grids! We have also finished writing our persuasive letters to Mrs Hughes who will be collecting them on Monday, we hope she makes the right decision when it comes to keeping or getting rid of the egg. On Thursday, we checked our rain gauges which were icy! In science with Mrs Ratcliffe, we experimented to find out why things melt. We found out that the hotter the water was, the quicker the chocolate would melt!
Homework is already on the website as Spring 1 W3 Spelling Maths.
Date: 19th Jan 2024 @ 2:04pm
This week in our maths lessons we have been using the Numberblocks to help us put the number 1-5 in the right order. Have a look at some of our amazing work!
Once we had the numbers in the right order, we made it EVEN TRICKIER by hiding one of our Numberblocks and seeing if we could work out who had gone missing...
Date: 19th Jan 2024 @ 1:57pm
We spent Tuesday morning playing in the freshly fallen snow outside! Lots of snowballs, snow angels, and snowmen to be had.
Date: 19th Jan 2024 @ 8:28am
Hello, we have had a busy snowy week this week!
In Geography, we continued to observe and measure rainful using our rain gauges. The highest measurement was 9.5cm of rain so far! we will contine to observe next week. Some children also shared their brilliant school council manifestos to the class before we went to the polling station in school and voted for our new class/school councillor. Have a look at the attached pictures!
Homework is being sent out today, please complete and return by Friday 26th January.
Please make sure your child is practicing their times tables and reading every day.
Have a great weekend!
Date: 18th Jan 2024 @ 12:41pm
In PE this week, we have been working with the city coach. We practiced dribbling the ball on the spot, before dribbling around the hall. Our partners gave us directions to ensure we dribbled the ball into a space.
Date: 17th Jan 2024 @ 5:28pm
On Wednesday a visitor called Alison came into school. She was a Toy Museum curator. We used our imagination and drama skills to be transported into a museum where Alison looked after all the toys. We learnt facts about toys from the past such as teddy bears, dolls and moveable toys. We also used our imagination to invent a new toy and acted out this toy for everyone to see.
Next week we will be using this experience to write a recount using time connectives and extend our sentences using 'and.' In our Connected Curriculum work linked to our history skills we will use the facts we have learnt to find out which toys from the past we would like to play with and compare them with toys from the present. We will also magpie the snap game we played with Alison to match old and new toys that are the similar.
Date: 17th Jan 2024 @ 5:19pm
On Tuesday we came to school in the snow. After register the first thing that we had to do was go and play with ourfriends in the snow! Mrs Hughes and Mrs Thewlis joined us as well. It was lots of Fun!!!
Date: 16th Jan 2024 @ 2:13pm
We have been learning about Winter in Nursery. We've been finding frozen blocks of ice all over our provision. Yesterday we received a letter from some penguins, asking us to help them get free from the ice that they were trapped in. We planned experiments in our key worker groups to work out how to free them.This morning there was snow all over the outdoor area but no trapped penguins. This afternoon we found the penguins frozen in ice outside, next to our water tray, so we sprung into action!
Mrs Ganners group poured warm water on the penguins and it melted the ice.
Mrs Blakeley's group banged the ice with a hammer to break the penguins free.
Mrs Wyment's group got a bucket and put in some warm and cold water. After that, they put the penguins inside the bucket and waited.
Ms Marley's group put the penguins in a tray and put it outside and waited for the sun to come out.
We hope you enjoy looking at the photos of our learning as much as we enjoyed setting the penguins free!
Date: 16th Jan 2024 @ 12:00pm
This morning Mys Hughes allowed all the children to experince a fun-filled five minutes outside before they started their lessons. The children had so much fun and it was lovely to see them all playing so nicely together.
Date: 14th Jan 2024 @ 3:16pm
This week we tried our full spring term timetable. We now do PE on Monday afternoons and started the week with some games linked to the work we did with Chiaria our City coach. On Tuesday we started our new topic in Computing all about Bee Bots. We discovered how we could program the Bee Bots using some algorithms. We realsied that some bugs appeared so we changed the algorithms and tried again to make the Bee Bots move in certain directions. We really enjoyed this session and next week we will be showing you all how to use a Bee Bot by creating some videos. Check out blog post next week for those videos!
In writing we finihsed our Found poster where we describing Threadbear and started to sequence the story 'Threadbear' using pictures and sentences from the story. We worked together with a partner to get the pictures in the correct order. Then we used our Talk for Writing phrases and actions to retell the story to our partners.
Next week there will be lots more learning happening with a very special visitor coming into school on Wednesday. Check out next week's blog post!!!
Date: 14th Jan 2024 @ 10:02am
This week, we worked with our art teacher, Mrs McAffer. First, we used our observational skills to create a continuous line drawing of penguins. Next, we continued to use our observational skills and focused on the tone, lines and shapes in pictures of penguins. Finally, we explored using a different media to draw penguins.
Date: 12th Jan 2024 @ 4:56pm
The week feels like its disappeared in a whirl of writing, maths and Ancient Greeks!
In writing, we have created some very scary monsters in preparation for writing a story inspired by a greek myth. We wrote two descriptive sentences and then inputted them into bing image creator. They are going to be excellent inspiration, I'm sure.
In reading, we have started to get stuck into the ancient Greek myth of Heracles. The class were aware of Hercules - the Roman equivalent but they weren't aware of the ten tasks he had to complete so they are very enthusiastic about the exciting stories of him killing beasts.
In maths, we are working our way through learning about area and perimeter. I was so impressed with the class' ability to move from counting squares within a rectangle to find its area, to multiplying two sides to calculate it instead. Next week, we will be thinking about how to calculate the length of missing sides in composite rectilinear shapes so that we can calculate the area accurately.
And finally, today we went on a school trip to Manchester Art Gallery to take part in a drama workshop about Pandora's box. The staff were blown away by the exceptional levels of behaviour. It was the first time we've used public transport for a trip which caused a few concerns but I'm very pleased to say that we will be able to do more of this in the future. The children listened to adults, followed instructions in busy areas and were so sensible. It was by far, the proudest day I've had with this class since September. Well done 5HC!
Date: 12th Jan 2024 @ 2:12pm
What a busy week we have had!
As part of our geography learning, we have created some rain gauges to see how much rainfall there will be in our area over the next two weeks. Each Tuesday and Thursday, we will go to the playground and check our rain gauges to see how much water is inside of them. We are measuring in cm. We have also said that because next week is forecasting cold temperatures, our rain gauges might even freeze! We put our rain gauges in the forest school garden, but we had to ask for Mrs Thewlis's permission first! We hope that it will rain so that we can see how much rainfall there is!
Don't forget we have our visit to the river Medlock on Tuesday, to conduct a river study. Please make sure that children are wearing a warm coat, and sensible shoes. We will still have PE on Tuesday morning.
Kandinsky Inspired Art in Reception
Date: 12th Jan 2024 @ 1:52pm
This week in our connecting curriculum program, we took a look at warm and cool colours and how they match with the seasons of the year. With a focus on cool colours for winter, we created some Kandinsky inspired artwork. Check out the beauitful results below!
Date: 12th Jan 2024 @ 8:25am
Hello, we have been super busy in 4AK this week!
We created our art sketchbooks and sharpened our continuous line drawing and backwards/forwards drawing skills. See the attached pictures, we are so proud!
In maths, we have been multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100. In science we have been learning about the particles in a solid, liquid and gas. We also made a rain gauge in Geography and we can't wait to observe and see the results over the next 2 weeks. Have a look at the attached picture of our rain gauge in the school garden.
Homework has been sent out today, so please return it by next Friday.
Have a great weekend!
Date: 8th Jan 2024 @ 8:17am
Hello Reception!
We are going to be meeting a new character this week, his name is Noi. Noi has lost his friend... Do you know who his fried might be? He is big and he can swim.
Can you write who you think Noi's friend could be?
Can you guess what 2KW are going to be learning about this half term?
Date: 7th Jan 2024 @ 9:23pm
Hello and Welcome back!
This week was a short week however it was extremely busy and it was lovely to see all the children eager to come back to school and get on with their learning!
As part of the learning this week, the children were learning how to develop their prediction skills . One of the activities that they really enjoyed was predicting what objects were in the rucksack. They had to use knowledge of prior learning, knowledge from learning from home and what they have read to make sensible guesses. They then found out what was in the bag and used what they had found to predict the next topic of learning.
We found rope, plates, pans, hats, suncream, torches, lanterns, a hammer, walking boots, warm and cool clothes, sleeping bags and pillows.
We asked lots of questions and found out that it belonged to Madeleine, Miss Wolfenden's daughter. We predicted that we are going to be learning about going on an adventure and maybe different countries.
The children were very excited and can't wait to find out about the world.
Keep looking at our blogs!
Miss Wolfenden and Mrs Cooper
Date: 7th Jan 2024 @ 6:19pm
In Maths, we have been exploring 2D shapes. We have been learning to recognise and name the common 2D shapes such as square, rectangle, circle, triangle, hexagon and pentagon. We are all very confident at recognising the shapes by identifying their properties. Today, we have been sorting the 2D shapes into groups and Venn diagrams. We sorted the shapes according to their names, colours and properties.
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Date: 7th Jan 2024 @ 8:36am
Happy New Year!
Welcome back to the spring term in Year 1. The children have come back with such a positive attitude towards their learning and have grown a little taller as well!
We have had a busy few days back in class - we starting reading our new story 'Threadbear' and used adjectives to describe the main character called Threadbear. In maths we have started to learn about 2D shapes and next week we will be learning about 3D shapes.
In our Connected Curriculum we started to think about our new topic question 'Is the XBox more fun than our grandparent's toys?' In this topic we will be using history, design & technology and art skills to support us. On Thursday afternoon we launched our topic by having a 'Games Afternoon' where we played with various types of toys, board games and toys from the past. We collected some information about which toy/game was our favourite and created a block graph. In 1AI we enjoyed playing with the various board games.
