Spring 1

Welcome back everyone! After a very cold and snowy start to the year we are finally back together again. It has been very exciting hearing about everyones adventures over the holidays and seeing childrens work. Well done to everyone who was able to complete some of the home learning!

Our first week back has seen the introduction to lots of new topics. In history we will finding out about pre-historic Britain. In conjunction with this our new text in English is The Stone Age Boy. We will be using this story to do a retell at the end of this unit of work. Children have had fun role playing parts of the story and presenting to the class. Things included making fire and making tools in the Stone Age. 

Quotes from the children.

'I like learning about the Stonage age because it's really cool what happened!.' Caleb

'It is really interesting looking at the animals they drew in caves.' Noah

'I have learnt there is a s

Mental Health Awareness Week

During the first week in February we have been looking at raising awareness about mental health. Lots of interesting things have been going on in school. We had a magician come into our school assembly whihc brought lots of smiles and laughter!

We have been talking about what islands we would have as part of our personality. We had lots of different ones including family, friendship, imagination, gaming, sport, honesty, books and fidget islands. We recognised that we have lots of similarities and lots of differences too. 

We have been watching some different mindfulness videos to support our mental health and focus in school.

Our second week of term at school has already brought lots of exciting things.

Bright Monday!!

We started the week with Bright Monday where we all came dressed in bright colours to raise awareness for mental health. We had an interactive assembly that looked at ways to look after our mental health.

In class we talked about things we might do to support others and ourself with our mental health.

'You could cook healthy food' Reba

'Be kind to everyone' Penny 

'Help others with their mental health' Lola

Science - Fossils

We have started learning about fossils in Science. We really enjoyed looking at at different types of fossils, and trying to figure out if they were plants or animals. We even learnt the names of some of them. 

Hand to Mouth Visit - Godly Play

Hand to Mouth came to visit or class during week 2. We listened to and explored the story of Jonah. We were asked wondering questions about what we thought about different elements of the story. We then made creative representations of these.

'I liked the part of the story where the plant grew to him shade.' Lola

'I liked it when the worm ate the tree.' Reba

'He threw himself in the river to save the people.' Sophie

History - Pre-historic Britain

We have really enjoyed our history lessons this half term where we have found out about prehistoric Britain. We have leanrt about the Stone, Bronze and Iron Age! Below is a picture of of working wall and lots of the learning we have done! Some children even did some fact files see top left. (We know the Flintstones wasn't historically accurate but what a great drawing!). 

Caleb ' I enjoyed learning about Iron Age tools and weapons.

Olivia ' I enjoyed learning about the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age because I love learning about history.

Sophie ' I liked learning about all the different things that were made in these times.'

Aria ' I found it interesting that there were no written records.'

Spring 2

We welcomed the children back after hearing about all their adventures this half term in our weekly check in! This week we have started lots of new topics. In English we became archaeologists hunting for fossils as part of our immersion into our new text 'The Dinosaur Lady'.  In Geography we have been looking at maps as part of our coasts and cities topic. Children had a great time locating Idle. 

RE - Hinduism

In RE we found it interesting learning about Hinduism. 

I have learnt

Jude - The HIndu place of worship is called a mandir.

Orla - Hindus believe in reincarnation and in good and bad karma.

Noah - They believe Brahman (God) is inside everyone. This called Atman.

Caleb - Brahman - Brama, Vishnu, Shiva

Betsy - When the Hindu's go to their place of worship they are asked to take off their shoes and make sure they are clean before entering. 

Olivia - I love learning about Hinduism because there loads of different Gods and Godess. 

During this week we have been looking  at different objects used in worship. 

World Book Day - Thursday 6th March

We had a fantastic day celebrating all things book! Here are just a handful of things we did.

• Children designed paper plates to show reading around the world. There were some wonderful designs. We enjoyed looking at all the different year groups.
• We took part in a BBC live lesson along with schools across the country.
• Year 6 came into class to listen to us read.
• We had some great converations about books and why we were drawn to them after a book blather activity in class. Some quotes from this are below.

• Mrs Murphy lead are really interesting assembly

• We made some awesome book marks.

Olivia – All About Families - ''It is a non-fiction book. I was drawn to it because I like families and I like reading books with families in.''

Molly –What a Waste – ''It is a non-fiction book. I was drawn to it because its about saving the planet. I like to help the world.''

Arlo – Big Book of Big Dinosaurs - ''It is a non-fiction book. I was drawn It is quite unique because the pages grow to become bigger and I like that is about dinosaurs.''

Sophie – Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator – ''It is a fiction book. I was drawn to this book because it is the next book after Charlie and The Chocolate Factory.''

TT Rockstars!

In week 3 of Spring 2 we all pulled together and worked super hard at home to become the Times Table Roackstars champions for the first time this year! Massive shout out to Anumta and Maja who have been on the leader board for a number of weeks!

English

We have enjoyed getting immersed in our new English learning journey. We made some great predictions and have been exploring emotions in stories. Can you guess what these emotions are?

Nell Bank - Educational Visit

What a fabulous school trip we have had in the second to last week of term. We were blessed with some beautiful sunshine to enjoy our ‘Early People’ activities at Nell Bank. We split into 3 groups to explore cave painting and weaving, den building and campfire skills. Most children were successful in creating fire using flint! Finally, we had a little free time to enjoy the adventure playground in the sun. It was a rather perfect day! Here are some of the many photos taken. More will be added soon!

Science 
This term we have been exploring light. We completed an interesting experiment looking shadows and whether or not they would chance shape and direction in the day. 

DT
This half term we have been exploring seasonal vegetables and have used this knowledge to create some seasonal vegetable tarts. Pictures to follow!