This week, during PSHE, the children looked at difference and living together. They were able to discuss, in groups, the work carried out by Nelson Mandela and how he dreamed of a rainbow nation. Together, the children answered questions, which helped them to think about how we live as a community and the importance of being tolerant and understanding of others.
Article 30:Every child has the right to learn and use the language, customs and religion of their family, regardless of whether these are shared by the majority of the people in the country where they live.
During PSHE, this week, the children looked at the importance of helping others around the world. We discussed different charities and the work UNICEF does in encouraging other countries to be apart of the Children’s Rights Convention.
Article 42:Governments should make the Convention known to children and adults. The Convention has 54 articles in total. Articles 43–54 are about how adults and governments work together to make sure that all children get all their rights.
This week, during PSHE the children looked at how we live and work together. They were able to think of how and why it is important to be understanding of others. Working in groups, the children discussed the meaning of a faith and how there are many different faiths in the school, community, country and world.
Article 30:Every child has the right to learn and use the language, customs and religion of their family, regardless of whether these are shared by the majority of the people in the country where they live.
Year 1 received a new article explaining that Autumn has been cancelled this year. We decided to explore this further, we spoke about what we knew about Autumn and read lots of non-fiction books to find out more information. We were worried about Autumn not appearing this year, so we wanted to ask for help to find Autumn. The children decided to write Missing poster to ask for help.
Look at our fantastic independent writing!
We then became Autumn detectives and went for a walk around the school grounds to see if we could find any signs of Autumn. Take a look at what we found!
What can you find? Has Autumn really been cancelled this year?
What have you noticed about this time of the year?
In Reception, we have been reading the story ‘Owl Babies’. The children have really enjoyed the story and role playing with the different characters. We even wrote and read sentences from the book! Our favourite sentence was “I want my mommy!”
It has been a busy week in Green class this week with lots of art and design technology enhancing our learning. Miss Shryane worked with Green class to create volcano models. Hopefully the models will dry over the weekend and then we will paint them and make them erupt!
With our Religious Education learning being all about Diwali, Year 3 have also made their own diva lamps from clay. Divali means “rows of lighted lamps”.People light lots of small oil lamps called diyas or divas. They are placed around the home and in gardens to remember how Rama and Sita were welcomed home.
Hindus believe that by lighting these lamps, the goddess Lakshmi will visit them and bring them wealth.
We used a ‘thumb pot’ design and are now patiently waiting for them to dry so they can be painted in bright, eye catching colours next week.
Read our blog next week to find out how well our volcano models erupted and how we decorated our diva lamps.
In Maths this week Year 6 have been looking at calculating area ,perimeter and volume. We applied the formulae we learnt throughout the week to our work. We were able to use this knowledge to find the volume of cuboids.
We are getting ready to apply this knowledge to SATs questions.
This week Year 5 have been classifying and identifying the properties of 2D and 3D shapes. In our lessons we have been developing and applying all our knowledge to create our own 3D shapes.
We created chatter boxes which had information about the properties of 2D and 3D shapes.
We created our own cuboid boxes which involved us measuring with a ruler accurately.
The cuboids were then tuned into gas mask boxes which fits into our topic work on World War 2.
This week many of the children have become bug hunters! They have looked for insects under logs and in the wood chipping. We found worms, earwigs, millipedes and a woodlouse. We had to look on the iPad to find out what each insect was. We put them into a bug holder so we could have a close look at them. We also took photographs and drew pictures of what we found.
Our story this week has been The Three Billy Goats Gruff. The children have enjoyed taking on the role of the characters in the story.
We enjoy singing in Nursery. One of our favourite songs this week has been ‘Five Little Ducks’.
This week in Year 2, we have been reading ‘The Day the Crayons Quit’ by Oliver Jeffers.
Year 2 have been thinking about imperative verbs and using them in command sentences. We received a letter from a very angry Blue Crayon who was just too tired and wanted to be put back in the box. We have been writing our own command sentences pretending we are a very unhappy crayon and demanding change!
We hope that none of the other items in out class are angry!
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