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This afternoon the children enjoyed exploring mixing primary colours to make an array of secondary colours. They then used these colours to paint concentric shapes.

The children have been creating magic recipes and potions using pumpkins and other natural ingredients in our forest area. We have created our own pumpkin patch and have been learning about pumpkins describing their colour, shape and size. We also had lots of fun decorating our magician hats. 

This week we have been looking at different measures.  We have been using our hands to weigh two items and use our hands like a see saw.  The children then went into provision and continued this. 

This week in Maths the children are exploring shapes. They are building together and using their imaginations to create some wonderful houses, hotels, castles and towers. 

After reading the story ‘Whatever Next’ by Jill Murphy, some of the children chose to explore and build a rocket with the wooden blocks.  They explored how to position the blocks in different ways using the language big, bigger, small, smaller.  

The children have been busy this morning building a bridge to our outdoor autumn cafe.  We saw some brilliant teamwork and problem solving.

We have been learning lots of different counting songs in Reception today using numbers from 1-10. 

The children worked in pairs to identify and represent numbers up to 10,000.

The numbers were presented in word form, part-whole models, place value counters and base ten blocks.

Tallulah 5B, “I enjoyed exploring the classroom and figuring out the range of…

Today, the children in Year 5 experienced a taster day at Holy Family Catholic High School.

They took part in a Geography, Mathematics and P.E lesson.

Year 5 had a brilliant time and the staff at Holy Family commented on how polite and respectful the children were.

This week we have been revisiting patterns in class.  We have been making patterns and deciding what the repeat is for each pattern.. The children then went into provision and then made their own patterns.  

Today in maths, the children worked in groups to sift through a range of cards to help plan a school trip. 

The children had to use lots of different skills to decipher and calculate the information before writing the letter that would be sent out to parents. 

 

This week we have read the book ‘The Doorbell Rang’ we related it to sharing biscuits.  The children were really good at making sure that they shared the biscuits fairly!!