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24 January 2025

Year 1 Crudites

Year 1 Crudités 

Year 1 enjoyed chopping the different vegetables into strips and making a delicious dip. “It was so yummy. I liked it all.” 

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24 January 2025

Year 2 Mindful Movement

The children explored a series of movements, using their breath along side. They were encouraged to think about how the movements made them feel. They ended with a calm rainforest relaxation period.

 

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24 January 2025

Art Y2

Children created their own collagraph block using a range of materials. They then used this block to make their own repeat printed patterns.

 

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24 January 2025

Exploring Colours in Nursery

This week the children have been exploring colour mixing with paints. We have been learning about the primary colours red, yellow and blue and seeing what happens when we mix them together. We have also painted our own crocodile as we continue to read ‘Let’s All Creep Through Crocodile Creek’.…

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24 January 2025

Let’s have some time together

“Let’s have some time together” is a phrase you will often hear adults in our early years setting saying to children.  For example, “Let’s have some time together to play, read, tidy, build, talk, think about, focus on”.  It is an effective way of connecting and bringing learning on through…

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24 January 2025

Future Architect

Architects of the future here in Reception.  The boys spent most of the afternoon building this airport!

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24 January 2025

Balancing Act

We have been talking about balancing today as part of our work with our book.  The children have loved doing the actions to get through the creek.  

 

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23 January 2025

What is it like to like in Dhaka, Bangladesh?

This term we have been exploring lines of longitude and latitude.

In this lesson, we focused on a location on the Tropic of Cancer.’

In groups, we explored where Dhaka was located and what the landscape is like.

We also discussed the issues of living there in particular the impact of…

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22 January 2025

Year 4: Layers of the Earth

Today, we started our new topic on volcanoes. We looked at the different layers of the Earth, and used play-dough to create them. Ask us about the different layers of the Earth! 

 

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22 January 2025

Year 4 Art: Georgia O’Keefe

Year 4 completed their art topic of painting today by producing one of their own abstract pieces focusing on flowers. The children used a range of materials to help create their desired effects; sketching pencils, water colours and acrylic paints. 

 

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21 January 2025

Explore the hardness of materials

In this lesson we explored the hardness of materials.

In groups, we used different types of rocks and tried to scratch them using: plastic, nails, coins, split pins and our fingernail.

We discovered than chalk was the easiest of the rocks to scratch.

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20 January 2025

Let’s Build in Nursery A

Using a mixture of wooden blocks and natural resources, the children decided to make a fort today.  The children worked together and side by side to create their masterpiece. There was lots of discussion and negotiating taking place too.   We didn’t want to tidy it away at the end of the day!…

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