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• Hot Dog Friday

  Sat 12 Nov 2016
  

• Year 1 and Year 1/2 Visit Conisbrough Castle

  Sat 12 Nov 2016
  

• Year 6A - Belated Diwali Celebrations

  Sat 12 Nov 2016
  

• Year 3 - Poetry

  Sat 12 Nov 2016
  

• F2 - Eggcellent Scientists!

  Sat 12 Nov 2016

  In F2 this week we  have continued our work on rhyming words in literacy; we are getting much better at hearing the rhyming pairs! We have looked at them in sentences eg  A cat in a hat. A frog on a log. Do you have any rhyming books at home? Why not bring them in to share with your friends in class?

  In number time, we have continued our work on length using the correct mathematical language. We have also had a go at using a ruler!

  In gymnastics, we have had another attempt at a ‘seal’ across the bench and a stretch jump off. We then attempted a ‘backwards seal’, which was really tricky! We had to lie on our backs and push ourselves along the bench.

  We really had to put our thinking caps on for the Egg Drop Science Day - we came up with some super ideas. We worked together as a team to come up with ideas as to how we could drop an egg without smashing it. Our ideas were:

  1. Wrap the egg in string before dropping it

  2. Drop the egg on a nest of cotton wool

  3. Drop the egg on a rectangle of sponge

  We voted to drop the egg onto a rectangle of sponge - we made up a rectangle from the sponges, dropped the egg onto it and guess what? Our egg bounced off the sponges onto the carpet and did not smash!!! We make super scientists - we certainly looked the part in our lab coats!!! Fuelled with the success of our experiment, we then set about trying to improve the protective qualities of an ordinary egg box; I wonder if we should let the major supermarkets know?! The children thoroughly enjoyed the scientific challenges and approached them in many creative ways. Well done F2 scientists, you were eggcellent!!!!

   

  

• F1 - Making links in our learning...

  Sat 12 Nov 2016

  F1 - Making links in our learning...

  This week in F1, we have engaged in so much fun learning, as always! We are reading the story of The Three Little Pigs and Miss Frisby made our friends guess the story by revealing a series of clues from her bag. There was a brick, some straw and sticks - would you have guessed the story?  Then appeared three little pigs and a scary wolf! Poppy guessed it as soon as the little pig came out! We have learnt that a traditional tale often starts with the phrase ‘Once upon a time,’ and ends with, ‘and they all lived happily ever after’, well all except for Mr Wolf! Ask our friends what happened to him!                                                                               

  There were lots of other activities out in the unit for us to engage with. We had to paint a picture of one of The Three Little Pigs and Lexi-Jay painted a fabulous one and then she went over to the white board and drew all of the characters from the story. Her Mummy wrote on the blog that when she got home she also drew all the characters. I think she must have loved the story! Avah-Mae and Poppy also drew the characters and Poppy’s Three Little Pigs were at a BBQ!

  The whole story was represented in our Small World area. Kayden took his time and built the brick house and Miss Frisby could hear Esmae saying, ‘I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house down!’ as she held on to the character of the wolf. We also had pictures to sequence from the story. They had to be cut out first, which is a skill in itself, and then stuck down in the right order. Finally we had to re-tell the story to Miss Frisby. All our friends were eager to have a go. We do love glue and scissors in F1!

  We really enjoyed the Egg Drop Science Day, although F1 did it a day earlier in the woods. We talked about how we could protect our eggs from cracking. Jack said it would crack on stones and Freya told us that if you fell on stones that it hurts your knees and Poppy added that they were hard and that’s why the egg would crack. They were right and as one of our friends dropped it onto the stones we watched in delight as it cracked! But we needed to protect it! Oh no! We thought about it again and earlier we had been lying in the leaves and Kayden said that when he fell on the leaves they protected him so we decided to make a bed of leaves to drop our egg into. We thought it would be like a bird’s nest. This was a great idea and the egg sank into the leaves and it was protected. How fabulous are we at making links with our learning and making predictions?

  We are amazing scientists! What’s our next challenge?!

  Read our blog to see all the other fabulous experiences we have had to ignite our learning!  

  

• Year 5 - Astronomy Event at Outwood Portland

  Sat 12 Nov 2016
  

• Year 5 - Terrific Times Tables

  Sat 12 Nov 2016
  

• Year 6 - Josh, Kenning Poet!

  Sat 12 Nov 2016
  

• Year 6 - Super Spelling Stars

  Sat 12 Nov 2016