We started and finished the week by making a great impression. This of course was our endeavours in to press mould making in preparation for the Art exhibition next week. After two (messy) lessons, we have unveiled some very impressive results.

In our Maths lessons we have been identifying the relationship between decimals and fractions; understanding how the decimal places relate to tenths, hundredths and thousandths. It has been excellent to see pupils confidence grow in this area and how they relished the opportunity to create their own matching ‘decimals to fraction’ card games.

The headline news from English and Humanities recounted events from the Spanish Armada in the form of a newspaper report. Eye catching headlines, sub headings, captions and many more features of newspaper reports were in use as pupils recounted events from the 1588 battle in the English Channel.

A very busy week for the Badgers with more busy creative times to follow from next Monday.

This week with the children in full art mode we have created some beautiful mosaic sunflower pictures. These are now on display in our classroom ready for you if you take the opportunity to come and see.

With the children topic of Stone Age in humanities we got messy on Friday we some very cool mud paintings.

In maths we have gone back over our place value and will next week be moving onto halving large 3 digit numbers.

In English the children created some splendid monster poems which they loved reading out to each other. Next week we are going to be creating our own comic books, which the children are very excited for.

Have a wonderful weekend.

The week began in reception with a huge interest in the snails that appeared during the rain. We have been using this interest to talk about mini-beasts. During performing arts we moved like our chosen mini beast, thinking about their speed. We then listened to the sounds of mini beasts and developed our sound differentiation skills to identify which mini beats was making the sound.

In Literacy we listened to a story about a caterpillar and used this to help us write a story about a caterpillar or a snail. The children really tried hard to think of creative ways to start their story using their knowledge of adjectives from previous weeks. They wrote what the weather was like and where the mini beast went. Reception have been working hard recently writing for a purpose and they used their knowledge of caterpillars and snails to improve their stories.

In Maths used the balance scales with the Numicon to help us visualise addition sums. We had to try and make the scales balance by using two Numicon tiles to add up to the one tile that was in the opposite side of the scales. E.g. 10 = 6+4.

The children have been fascinated during our sessions on understanding the world where we looked at the festival of Eid. After watching videos of how families celebrate Eid we then shared our ideas with each other and this enabled them to compare the celebrations to other traditions. The children then identified different places of worship they visit with their families. As the week progressed we created our own Eid cards using the symbols of the star, moon and mosque and we delivered them around the school to other children that were celebrating Eid. The children in the class that had celebrated Eid with their families recalled the events confidently to the class and answered their peer’s questions.

During Woodland School we looked at the art of Andy Goldsworthy, we discussed the shapes we could see and what they reminded us of. The children then collected their own natural objects and created their own transient art. We had everything from 2D shapes to animals.

The week ended with an art day on Friday as the children prepared their Matisse collages for the art exhibition using their freeze frame photos of themselves when we listened to the music “Spring” by Vivaldi. We thought carefully about the colours and shapes we used to represent our thoughts and feelings in response to the music. I hope you will enjoy their work products when you come and visit the art exhibition next Friday.

First Steps have been super busy everyday this week and have been having loads of fun! At the start of the week we had a fantastic phonics session using a mirror and a few objects like a car, a train, a cow and a bear etc. The children used the mirror to look at how their mouth shape and sound changed depending on the object they chose. Then in P.E we developed our knowledge of colours through a physical game where we had to move around in different ways like hop, run or skip to the correct colour which was shouted out. We got creative this week and painted our own ladybirds and made some bumble bees out of clay. We also decorated our spiders from last week with glitter and paint.

For woodland School this week we developed our number skills with a number Hunt in the bark area. There were hidden numbers from 1-10 and once the children found the number they then had to count the correct amount of bark and show on their finger the number amount too. Well done First Steps!

On Thursday we had a very interesting assembly about Eid and Ramadan. We learnt about fasting, the mosque, how Eid is celebrated and much more! We also got to enjoy some Turkish delight from Mrs Guniz and coloured in and made mosques.

Mrs Guniz Mrs Mousi Ms Bambi