Year 4 have been creating their own magical potions. We collected ingredients such as, troll’s slime, giant’s toenails and unicorn tears. We mixed the potion to create our own magical spell. We made spells to grow as tall as a giant, make anything you touch turn to gold, run as fast as a cheetah and fly like a Pegasus. We made labels for our potions and wrote instructions to describe how to make them.
During PSHE, this week, the children looked at different types of relationships.
Article 15: Every child has the right to meet with other children and to join groups and organisations, as long as this does not stop other people from enjoying their rights.
The children were able to identify positive relationships and qualities they look for in a friend. Working together, the children discussed the meaning of a gang or group. We highlighted that some groups help us to showcase our talents and build on our skills. As a class, we found out that some of us attend dance groups, football clubs, karate clubs and many others.
The children also discussed the negative behaviour of some gangs and groups and how this stops other people enjoying their rights.
Miss Akers
What is a friend? Was the question Year 6 answered during PSHE, this week.
The children, in groups, discussed whether we want a friend to be similar or different to ourselves. The children then looked at the triangle of need and identified that, having friends, is one of our basic needs.
We then discussed how having friends and spending time with them should not impact on our right to be safe. The children then thought about the question, ‘ Can our friends sometimes put our safety at risk?’ By the end of the lesson, all the children were able to, confidently, complete their Dot Com learning journal.
Miss Akers
In Year 1 we have been continuing our learning based around the Gruffalo and Autumn. So this week, we have been thinking about all the animals that live in the deep, dark wood. The challenge in the creative area was to make a creature that we would find in the woods. The children were able to recall a range of animals we could find hiding in their habitats. They had to design then create their own animal. After that they had to explain to a friend how they had made it. The additional challenge was to write some instructions using their phonics knowledge and writing skills.
Look at all the amazing creations the children have made!
Can you tell what animals we have made?
What can you make at home? Can you create it then write some instructions to share with the class?
The children in Year Two were learning about people who help us and how they can help us.
They looked at different pictures and used them to help prompt sentences about how different people help us as part of their job. The children discussed the different jobs and asked some good questions.
In Year One today the children have been learning about people who help us and how they help us.
They did this with the help of pictures cutting them out and matching them to their job. They then had to write a sentence about how the different people help them.
This week, in PSHE, the children continued to work on what makes them special. They began to look at the values they have and what they do that makes them feel proud. Showing their creative side, the children made up poems about themselves to reflect the people they are.
The children felt it was important to be positive and to encourage happiness in others. When discussing feeling proud, all the children were able to identify their achievements and showed praise and respect for the achievements of others.
Miss Akers
To start the lesson, this week, Codie shared a story with us. This helped the children to learn about showing respect to others and developed their listening skills.
The main focus of the lesson, this week, was similarities and differences. The children discussed the meaning of difference and whether this is a good or bad thing. The children, all agreed being different is good. They were able to talk, with confidence, about what made them different and also what similarities they shared, not only with their family, but with friends, teachers and people within their community.
Using their Dot Com journals, the children completed work on when being different can make them feel uncomfortable. Being the youngest, not being good a sport and being the only boy or girl in a group, were some of the situations the children came up with.
Miss Akers
This week, we have been learning about autumn. We have discussed the changes that occur outside and found out about different autumn animals. The children have been interested in hedgehogs and learning about hibernation. Some children even made a hedgehog house!
Nursery have really enjoyed our book this week: Jack and the Beanstalk. It has been great to hear them all joining in with the repeating phrases in the story “Fee Fi Fo Fum!”
The construction area has been busy this week. Some of the creations have been very impressive. It was lovely to see that the children were determined to complete a task, even when their towers fell they kept on trying until they succeeded.
Some of the children enjoyed exploring what happens with the magnets. They experimented with how to make the magnets attract and repel and how to make paper clips move using the magnet.