How’s the weather today?
Pupils in 1P have been learning about the weather. They enjoyed playing a game on the IWB to identify different types of weather in pictures and made rain pictures using their finger tips to tap blue dabs of paint across their page. We have been singing songs about the weather in class which you…
Diwali
In RE, we started to look at Diwali and the festival of light. We enjoyed making our own paper craft Diwali lamps.
Mixing pigments like the stone ages!
We enjoyed looking at how paints were mixed in the stone ages. We explored different colour pigments and mixing them with water, before painting our cave art!
Bee bots
We enjoyed starting our new computing topic, exploring bee bots! We enjoyed tinkering with the functions and learnt how to switch them on and off.
What is an algorithm?
Our new topic in Computing is programming and algorithms.
Firstly we discussed what we think an algorithm is. Then we watched a video and learnt that it is ‘ a set of instructions’.
As a class, we then discussed the every day algorithms we do such as, getting up, brushing our teeth,…
Tim Burton inspired drawings
As it’s Halloween week, we have looked at Tim Burton’s characters and had a go at drawing our own spooky characters.
Paper folding
This afternoon, in DT, we practised folding paper in different ways. When we had folded it in half and half again we had a card. We chose to draw a picture and write a message inside for someone at home.
Bakers, You Have 15 Minutes
4H are busy kneading their bread dough today in Food Technology ready for making their pizzas next week.
5J STEM
In STEM this week we started to build skeleton bridges.
We had to make sure they were 20cm long and off the ground/table.
We used paper straws, tape and cut the straws using scissors.
Well done 5J!
5J cooking
In our home cooking session this week we made fish cakes.
we mashed fish up together with flour and other ingredients. We then crushed crackers up to use as a outer crumb of the fish cake.
Well Done 5J!
Dog therapy training
The new term brings a new set of students to dog therapy training. They have been learning the commands & how to say them so Molly our therapy dog will listen.