On Tuesday, year 4 went to the Think Tank for an exciting start to our science topic ‘Humans, including animals’. When we arriving at the Think Tank, we discovered the talking robots and found out how they behaved like humans. During our science workshop, we found out that we have 206 bones in our bodies and 32 adult teeth. We learnt lots of new facts about how the digestive system works and what a healthy balanced diet looks like. At the end of the day, we visited the science garden and played outside on the exciting apparatus and water fountains.
On Monday an author called John Dougherty came to visit. He read us his funny book called ‘There’s a Pig up my Nose!’ He also played his guitar and sang about the story whilst we joined in with the sound effects. It was great fun. Lots of us would like to be authors when we grow up.
We love books 🙂
On World Book Day we dressed up as our favourite book characters and Year 2 came to Nursery to read with us. We enjoyed looking at books and reciting the story of ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ together.
On Friday our parents came in for a reading workshop. We listened to ‘Chicken Lickin’ and showed our parents how good we are at joining in with the repeating phrases. Then our mums and dads helped us make Chicken Licken stick puppets to take home. We then chose a book to read with our parents .
Reception have been focusing on the book ‘Where the Wild Things Are’. The children have painted pictures of the setting, they have labelled the characters, they have sequenced the story and written sentences to match. We had the author John Docherty visit us on Monday. On Tuesday we went to the forest school area and we found a wild thing! We worked together to create a den for it. He read his book called ‘There’s a pig up my nose’ which the children really enjoyed. He also sang a song about the story. On Thursday the children enjoyed dressing up as different story characters. Year 5 came to join us to read the children their favourite books.
Year 5 have had a fantastic week learning through the story Coraline during Book Week. We started the week of with drama and a visit from an author. We used our creative and D&T skills to create characters and a new setting. We really enjoyed working with parents to make the dioramas. They look fantastic!
We then used these to create a stop mo
tion video on the iPads to depict the problem
and resolution in the story. We made some brilliant chase and escape scenes!
It has been such a fun week in Year 1! An alien crash landed into our classroom and left us a special book for us to read. We read ‘The way back home’ and predicted and answered questions related to the story. We thought about our school day and wrote a recount to share with the alien. In Maths, we found a footprint and applied our measuring skills to find out who’s foot it belonged to. On Thursday, the parents joined us for a workshop where we created our very own alien in a spaceship. We also enjoyed book share with Year 4!
It has been such a busy week, take a look at all the fun we’ve had!
During book week Year 6 have been using the book Arthur Spiderwick’s Field guide to the Fantastical World Around You. They created some new creatures alongside the parents in our workshop. The creatures were created using 3 different animals and then painted using watercolours.
Another lovely week at Stay and Play. We were missing a few children this week and hope to see them all back next session. Keep a look out! We hope Elijah will be crawling soon and earning his St. Clement’s Stay and Play certificate. Congratulations to Eden who is already on the move.
This half term our topic focus is Rainforests. This week in writing, we have been doing poetry around what we might find in the rainforest. Over the week, Year 5 had prepared unique poems based on what they have found out about the different plants and animals that belong to the rainforest.
This week our writing focus has been on poetry. The week started off by immersing ourselves in different poems all around the same theme – rivers. Year 3 spent time reading, discussing and also preparing their favourite poems for performance. Performances were improved and enhanced after watching different poets in action-Benjamin Zephaniah, John Agard and Michael Rosen . Year 3 were able to identify what made a great performance and used this in their own performance of Valerie Bloom’s poem The River.
This half term we are looking at the topic ‘Gallery Rebels’ and finding out about artists and different movements in art. We will be looking at Surrealism and linking this into our literacy through narrative and poetry.
We started the topic by turning our book corner into an art gallery. Over half term ,children made sculptures from foil to be hung or displayed in the gallery.
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