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Date: 24th Nov 2024 @ 10:16pm
We have really enjoyed learning all about life during the Second World War this term and how the people of Britain survived during the time known as the Blitz. We have completed extra research at home and produced some wonderful drawings, models and projects based on this.
Year 6 work hard at school and at home! Well doneYear 6!
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Date: 24th Nov 2024 @ 11:29am
1HB have been learning how to make attachments to models. We have explored how to attach a flange and tabs so that we can then use these skills to make a stable model house for someone living in Clayton. The flange was very useful to make a chimney and the tabs were perfect to make a moveable front door. We had lots of fun designing and making our models. Next week we will evaluate our models to conclude what worked well and what we could do to improve them.
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Date: 23rd Nov 2024 @ 6:32pm
During this half term's topic 'How has the world around me changed?' we have a design and technology project that we need to do. We learnt about what design and technology is and the three parts that are needed in any DT project - design, make and evalute. Our DT project is called create a stable and strong house model. Last week we designed our stable model house and explored how to use two joining techniques called flange and tabs. The flange joining technique created the chimney part of the house and the tab technique created the windows and doors. Then we spent Friday afternoon making our model houses. We used our designs to make sure we aded the correct number of windows, doors and other parts such as the chimney and drainpipes. Some models even had a back door and flag! Next week we will evalute our model houses and make an improvement to them.
Music sessions with Miss Kent!
Date: 23rd Nov 2024 @ 6:23pm
This year we are really enjoying our music sessions with Miss Kent on Thursdays. This half term we are focussing on music from Carnival of the Animals and recognising the names of different musical instruments. We are also learning how to play different musical instruments and creating rhythms.
Date: 19th Nov 2024 @ 10:04pm
Hello,
This week, the children went on a visit to the Greggs Factory. The children were very excited and couldn't wait to see how bread is made now in comparison to in London 1666.
They walked all the way to Openshaw Village which took them 45 minutes. Luckily, the weather was glorious and the sun was shining bright. The children walked around the factory and were lucky to watch how the bread dough is made, how the bread is kneaded into buns, how it is cooked and how it is packaged. They got to visit the warehouse where the ingredients were stored and watch how the ingredients are weighed and put into bags. Before they could go onto the factory floor they had to wash their hands and put on a special hat and jacket.
After the factory tour the children returned back to the classroom where they got to meet some special characters and decorated biscuits. The children went back to school with a special Gregg's cake that hasn't even been in the Greggs shops yet!
The children were very tired but had a fantastic time! The Gregg's team were very kind and extremely helpful.
The children were very lucky and even got to eat the cakes that they decorated! They have asked to go back soon.
Thanks
Miss Wolfenden and Miss Edey
Date: 19th Nov 2024 @ 9:31pm
Hello,
The children have enjoyed learning about and celebrating Bonfire night. They have linked this learning to the festival of Diwali, the festival of lights. The children shared the story of Rama and Sita and enjoyed finding out How and Why Hindu families celebrate Diwali. As part of this learning the children made lanterns and Diva lamps. They enjoyed sculpting the clay to make a pot and then using the mark making tools to add patterns. They finished their work by using paints to decorate them. They used their reading skills to independently read and follow instrucctions to make lantern. Look at what they created!
Thank you
Miss Wolfenden and Miss Edey
Date: 19th Nov 2024 @ 8:54pm
Hello,
We all hope you had a fantastic half term break and are excited to be back. This week the children have been introduced to the new topic ' The Great Fire of London' and have enjoyed completing the Launch activities. As part of the Launch the children created ' London in 1666' pictures using pastels and tissue paper. The children used charcoal to sketch tudor houses. They are a very creative class and really enjoy getting creative! I think you will agree that their creations are beautiful!
In maths, the children have been continuing to use the concrete objects in the classroom to add amounts. They have worked hard to add 3 addends and find the total. They have used their knowledge of number pairs to ten to help them!
I think you will agree they have made a fantastic start to the new term!
Thanks
Miss Wolfenden and Miss Edey
Date: 18th Nov 2024 @ 12:51pm
On Friday we celebrated Children in Need in Nursery.
We came dressed in Pudsey clothes, or something spotty.
We enjoyed lots of different Pudsey activities such as making headbands with Pudsey ears, playing a listening game -'Pudsey says...', adding spots to Pudsey using pompoms and tweezers and adding a spotty pattern to Pudsey.
Date: 18th Nov 2024 @ 8:29am
What an exciting few weeks year 3 have had!
This half-term, year three have been learning many new skills.
In maths, we have explored measurements - focusing on centimetres, metres and millimetres. This was a challenge at first, but well done to everyone for persevering, because we are all now able to confidently estimate the height and length of objects. This week, we will begin to measure the objects using rulers and tape measures.
In reading and writing, we have written our very own dilemma story! Using the story 'the Great Kapok Tree' for inspiration, we have explored how to use direct speech in order to convince a man or woman to save the rainforest from deforestation. Direct speech is a very tricky skill, one that we are still practising and hope to use in more pieces of writing.
We have also begun our geography topic, 'what impact can humans have on the Earth?' Throughout this unit, we are exploring both the positive and negative impacts that humans have on the planet - including pollution, deforestation and recycling. What could you do at home to help the Earth?
Date: 17th Nov 2024 @ 10:17pm
Next week we are heading to Stockport for the day to visit the war museum there and to spend time in the underground shelters which provided a safe place for the people of Manchester to take shelter from Hitler's bombs. We are really looking forward to our visit and finding out even more about what life was really like for the people of Manchester during the Blitz.
Check back for some pictures of our visit...
Date: 17th Nov 2024 @ 3:21pm
On Friday we celebrated Children in Need in our school. We came dressed in Pudsey clothes, superheroes or somthing spotty. In the afternoon we had a carousel of Pudsey activities such as Pointilism Pudsey head painting, making Pudsey masks, Pudsey colouring to turn him into another character and some addition activities. It was loads of fun!!!
Date: 17th Nov 2024 @ 3:16pm
Last week was a very busy week in 1AI!
We finished our writing linked to an information flap book about the parts of the house. Our next writing outcome will be instructions. To get us started we decided to make some wolf puppets linked to our key text 'The Three Little Pigs' as a hook. We will then write some instructions about how to make the wolf puppets thinking about the key features of how to write instructions.
Our trip to the Gregg's bakery
Date: 15th Nov 2024 @ 9:15pm
This week has been very special in 2AH! We have been extremely busy with starting our subtraction work in Maths and having school photos taken. This week we also had Remembrance Day on Monday, in class we discussed why we have Remembrance Day, the meaning of wearing a poppy and completed some creative tasks to show our thanks and remembrance. It has also been anti-bullying week, the class discussed choices which are and are not respectful, responsible and safe. We discussed how we can show kindness in our classroom, to our friends, our family at home and others. The children had some lovely reflections, discussing how using our voice to speak up is brave and that we all deserve to be treated with kindness.
To end our week, we had our class trip to the local Gregg's bakery. This links to our current history topic 'Could the Great Fire of London happen in Clayton?'. We have explored how the Great Fire started in a bakery on Pudding Lane, and how ovens and bakeries are different now compared to when the fire started in 1666. At the Gregg's factory, the children were able to see all of the different machinery used to make bread rolls and pizzas. The children had a go at sorting their own pizza dough ready to be baked and also enjoyed decorating their own gingerbread men. We had some special visitors, including Pudsey Bear who the children were extremely excited to meet. Take a look at some of our photos below:
The whole class have been great representatives of our school whilst out in public this week and I am so proud of how they are working in Year 2. For being so incredible during our trip, and during the whole week, I have awarded our behaviour star this week to the whole class. Well done 2AH, I am extremely proud of you all!
Standing Together Against Bullying: Year 5
Date: 14th Nov 2024 @ 1:10pm
This week, Year 5 took part in an anti-bullying workshop to support Anti-Bullying Week. Together, we discussed the impact of bullying, ways to support one another, and the importance of kindness and respect. We also got creative by designing posters with powerful messages and artwork to promote a safe, inclusive environment for everyone.
Date: 10th Nov 2024 @ 8:25am
In writing, are preparing to write a non-fition book to describe the materials used to build a house. First we started by learning about how a house is built and what materials are used to build them. The next day, we explored some of the materials by visiting stations in the class room. As a class, we used our senses to describe brick, wood, slate and plastic to generate lots of adjectives for our working window. We will use these adjectives within our non-fiction books when we come to write them.
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Date: 8th Nov 2024 @ 6:54pm
Today in Nursery our learning centred around Remembrance. We watched a video that helps younger children understand this important time of year.
Here it is for you to look at again over the weekend, with your children at home - Poppies by the BBC
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
We talked about how the animals felt at different points in the animation and lots of the children showed a good understanding of the changing emotions. One child stated, "It's the soldier's light' at the point in which the poppies began to grow again after war. This was a beautful moment of insight to share with his class.
Everybody used either their scissor skills to snip or their talking fingers to tear grass for the poppies to grow in. Later on the children chose if they wanted to create a poppy. They followed Steps 2 Success to make tissue paper or painted poppies. Here is the picture from the end of the animation that inspired us and then our very own field of Remembrance Day Poppies. We hope you love it as much as we do.
Date: 8th Nov 2024 @ 5:15pm
For our golden time this week, we voted to design and make models of different periods of history. Check back next week for the final outcomes!
Date: 8th Nov 2024 @ 2:27pm
Today Reception have been learning about Remembrance Day.
We watched a special video...
We looked carefully at all of the beautiful poppies that grew in the fields and we used different media to make our own.
Which one is your favourite?
Date: 7th Nov 2024 @ 3:40pm
Yesterday and today, during story time, Nursery had a special visitor. One of the junior children came to read one of her favourite stories to us. The Nursery children were an excellent audience, looking and listening and joining in with words and actions. Our visitor told the story with such good intonation and expression. Maybe she will become a Nursery teacher when she grows up?
Date: 4th Nov 2024 @ 8:46pm
In science we have been looking at seasonal changes with a focus on Autumn. We have been discussing what happens during this season and used videos and information to learn more about the changes during Autumn. We discussed the different colours that can be found during Autumn and went on a colour scavenger hunt around the playground. We found some amazing natural objects with Autumn colours.
Date: 3rd Nov 2024 @ 9:27am
We have launched our writing topic this week by reading the traditional tale of "The Three Little Pigs". We have explored the features of a brick house and considered why it was the best house. We have also completed lots of different challenges to label the features a house. We have designed and labelled a house using graph paper and then used the constrcution blocks to build our designs. We have used card, tissue paper and shiny paper to create a collage houses and named their features. We have been busy in our funky fingers area, using the sticks or peg boards to make houses, we then labelled the features using post its.
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Date: 1st Nov 2024 @ 1:46pm
This week in Nursery we have been learning about an Autumn Celebration - Bonfire Night. We've joined in with a poem. We've made our own craft rockets and we listened to Katy Perry's 'Firework Song'. We collaborated to make a huge fireworks display too!
Fireworks Poem please click
Katy Perry's song with fireworks display please click
The Great Fire of London and Diwali
Date: 31st Oct 2024 @ 9:30am
Welcome back!
It has been a lovely first week back in 2AH, I have enjoyed hearing all about the children's half-term break and seeing all of the amazing holiday homework creations. The children were so excited on Tuesday to show their creations to the rest of the class and these are now on display in our shared area.
History
This week we have launched our new History topic: Could the Great Fire of London Happen in Clayton?
The children have discussed what they would like to learn about the Great Fire of London and have made some amazing silhouttes of the Great Fire to add to our classroom display. This half term we will be doing a lot of activities all about the Great Fire of London and I am very excited to see the children become immersed in their exploration.
English
We have also started our new unit in English, Poetry. The children will be writing poems linked to the Great Fire of London and this week we have been reading poems all about bonfire night, finding adjectives that describe the sounds, colours and shapes of the fire. I was very impressed with the amazing adjectives that the children contributed to our class working wall and look forward to see how they apply these to their own poems.
Diwali
To celebrate the Hidu celebration of Diwali - The Festival of Light, we made our own diya candle holders. The children used their fine motor skills to make their diya's from clay and we look forward to painting these and bringing them home to light with our families next week. Just look at how proud the children were of their work!
Date: 30th Oct 2024 @ 7:18am
Just before the half term holidays, Year 6 joined Nursery for a Harvest Celebration. The Nursery children had been learning about how farmers harvest the food during Autumn. They also found out why farmers use scarecrows. Nursery loved the scarecrows so much that they learned and then performed a song and dance about them to the older children.
Click on the link to sing along to Dingle Dangle Scarecrow
Knowing how much Year 6 like to dance, the Nursery children then paired up and danced a Samba! Harvest Samba
The younger children loved sharing their learning with Year 6 and we hope to do it again very soon. Thank you Year 6 for being an amaxing audience and for looking after us.
Date: 27th Oct 2024 @ 4:45pm
On the final Wednesday before the half term holidays, Kane came back to school who delivered our Inclusive Sports Day in September. He showed us how to use a wheelchair and we played some games in the hall. The children were fantastic at controlling their wheelchair and enjoyed the session a lot!
