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.Â
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
Stone Age Boy Role Play
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.Â
We have been watching some different mindfulness videos to support our mental health and focus in school.
Mental Health Awareness Week
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' PennyÂ
'Help others with their mental health' Lola
Bright Monday
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.Â
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!).Â
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.'