In Reception we have a weekly ‘Play Projects’ session that allows the children to learn and experience new artistic and creative skills. The skills we learn in Reception are built upon as the children move through the school. Our aim is develop self-organised, resilient learners who are able to adapt to different challenges and situations. This journey begins in Reception! Today we learnt how to use a hole punch and a split pin to make a moving part.

Today, we were applying our skills of tone, line and texture in order to create high-quality pencil drawings of the anatomy of the heart.

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In Reception we use Drawing Club as the vehicle to develop the children’s writing skills over the year. At the start of the year, as the name suggests, we begin to develop our children’s fine motor skills by drawing pictures from the text we are exploring that week. This week we drew bears from the story of Goldilocks.

Today we worked collaboratively to accurately measure temperature using thermometers. We had a mix of cold, room temperature and hand hot water. We made Somme great predictions and recorded our results thinking about fair testing and variables. 

Today in English we shared our sun print instructions to our peers. We identified what we were proud of and what we would like to improve on. 

Well done year 3 😄

Look at how creative the Nursery children can be! I put flowers and herbs from my garden into the tuff tray and added scissors - great cutting practice and a calming lavender smell in Nursery!  The children then added the stalks to the playdough to make wonderful sculptures!

As well as adults setting up ideas we love to follow children's ideas. Today one child wanted to be a pirate so we made a ship and pirate hat, the other children soon followed and we had little pirates everywhere! Whilst making their hats the children were learning about joining by using glue and tape. 

This week, Year 5 are continuing to build their collaboration skills by completing the next steps of the Log Flume Challenge! We have designed and created our first prototypes using the understanding we gained last week when researching and exploring materials. Today, we tested the prototypes for the first time. Tomorrow, we will reflect on their effectiveness and then make alterations to our vessels before the final run next week!  

Year 1 have been continuing to build on their understanding of trees and plants. Today, we have been labelling the parts of a plant and a tree. We saw how we could use the fruit from our apple trees, picking them and then having a go at using the peeler and press! 

It was quite tricky but we shall persevere by trying out eating apples instead of cooking ones to get more juice! 

What a great maths lesson today! 

We we were able to identify and insert the missing numbers on the number lines independently. Some of the questions were tricky, but we could all do it!  We were resourceful using our number squares or number lines if we got stuck and we showed great resilience leading to everyone being successful!

We now need to practise counting in 3’s so use those stairs and trampolines to help you!!