Ball Skills
In PE this week, Oak Class communicated to help their team make effective decisions. The children played the roles of attacker to dribble and pass the ball whilst the defenders tried to kick the ball out of play. Super ball skills today!
Reception CVC words
Reception have been busy using their phonics knowledge to segment and blend CVC words with the initial sounds we have explored so far! Fantastic work!
Our five senses: taste
We had a fantastic Science lesson today investigating our sense of taste. We compared sweet, sour, salty and bitter foods. Marshmallows were our favourite! There were some interesting facial expressions when we tasted lemon!
Les cheveux et les yeux
In French this week, Oak Class learned how to say and write simple descriptions of hair and eye colour. The children used their learning from last week about how French adjective endings change depending on whether they are describing masculine or feminine nouns. We also enjoyed playing a…
Library Bus
Our first visit of the year to the Library Bus!
We can change our books every two weeks and had great fun choosing today.
Water fun!
We had a wonderful time in our outdoor area exploring some new equipment to make our own water channels. Some fantastic teamwork and lots of sharing ideas to make the water flow the way we wanted it to!
Air Resistance!
In Science, Oak Class planned and carried out a fair test to investigate air resistance and its effects. They carefully considered the variables that needed to be controlled or measured and analysed their results to look for patterns and draw conclusions!
Willow: History and WW1!
In history, Willow loved learning all about what Europe looked like in 1914. Through a colour key, they identified the Neutral States, Triple Entente, Triple Entente Allies, Triple Alliance and Triple Alliance Allies countries!
Phonics superstars!
What a great start to phonics!
Reception have been learning s,a,t and p and forming the letters correctly. Year 1 have been revisiting some learning from last year and writing super sentences using all the digraphs and trigraphs they know.
Is it a fruit or vegetable?
Our Design Technology topic this term has a food focus - we will be making some Pumpkin Soup ready for autumnal days!
We have been investigating the difference between fruit and vegetables and sorting them.
Fantastic teamwork!
Gravity and Mass
In Science, Oak Class described the force of gravity and its effects. We used data to measure out the diameters of different celestial bodies on the playground before recording the gravity of each planet. We looked for trends in the data, regarded anomalies and concluded that the larger the mass…
Rock up and Read
Reading for pleasure and sharing books is such an important part of our learning journey. It was fantastic to have so many parents join us for our first session of Rock up and Read of the year. Thank you!
