WWII

Year 6 experienced what it was like to be in a blackout during World War II. 
Suddenly an air raid siren went off and they needed to take shelter with their hands over their heads to protect themselves. The classes have been using posters and artefacts to deepen their understanding about different aspects of the war.

Shadow Puppets

Year 3 have been learning about Lights and Lanterns. As part of the topic they worked with Ann and Carina to make images with  light sensitive, photographic paper. They used different everyday objects to make images. Then they made their own shadow puppets. They took their inspiration from Indonesian shadow puppets and the book, The Firework Maker's Daughter.

The Play Pod

Now we have a "Play Pod" it feels just like we have a brand new playground!

The pod opens at lunchtime and all the 'scrap' materials come out; the children can play with it in anyway they want. For the last 3 days children from Year 1 to Year 6 have been playing happily in the same playground at the same time.

Staff have noticed children playing in new friendship groups, collaborating together to build and imagine. The playground sounds different and children are telling us how much fun they are having. These photos say it all...

 

Year 2 Ocean Maths

Year 2 parents learned a maths game with Hannah this morning that would help them support their children's Maths skills. They played a game using a hundred square to add 2 digit numbers.

Sapphire and Silver classes came down to join them and the parents taught the game to the children. Everyone had a good time playing and learning at the same time.

Visiting The Moon

Emerald and Pearl classes have been creating storyboards for their moon animation. 

Monkeys, dogs, a mouse, aliens and small girls feature in their moon stories. There is even a moon made of cheese!

Animating The Moon

Filmmakers Shelly Wain and John Harmer are working with Emerald and Pearl classes to make an animated film about the moon. They started the process by thinking about what they already knew about the moon and space. They thought about gravity and what it was like with no gravity. Then they looked at animations to gather animation ideas.

The children thought about location, character and their own ideas for the plot of the story. All the ideas will be gathered; John and Shelly will put them together to use them for the final storyline.

Eggstraordinary Eggs!

This year's Easter Challenge was to make someone eggstraordinary from an egg.
What a lot of eggsciting and eggstraspecial eggs!
Here are some eggsamples...

Amy Johnson

'Egg' Sheeran

Charles Darwin

 Mary Anning

 Einstein

Roald Dahl

 

Valentina Tereshkova

Meghan Trainor

 

 Malala Yousafzai

 Isaac Newton

Neil Armstrong