Reception have been focusing on the book ‘The Enormous Turnip’.
This week, we have crafted turnips, measured objects around the classroom using runner beans and have created our own nature collages. We even had a go at role playing pulling the enormous turnip!
Our highlights of the week have been playing tug of war and growing our own runner beans.
Year 2: Literacy This week, our Year 2 children have been reading 'Look Up' by Nathan Byron. The children were introduced to the main character Rocket: a girl who wants to be an astronaut just like Mae Jemison, the first African-American to g… Read More
Year 3: Volcano Eruptions3EM had great fun working in teams to build models of Mount Vesuvius. To support their writing in literacy where they have been describing the eruption of Vesuvius and the destruction of Pompeii, each group’s volcano was ‘eru… Read More
Year 3: SPaGIn one of this term’s lessons, we turned the classroom into a spelling hospital to practise spelling contracted words. We had to operate on the words, removing the letters that needed to be taken out before using a ‘plaster’ … Read More
Year 3: LiteracyAs a hook for our descriptive writing all about the earthquake that took place in Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted, the children worked in groups to build and erupt their very own volcano! The Year 3 children worked well a… Read More
Year 1: LiteracyAs part of our Literacy text on 'Jack and the Beanstalk', the children planted their own bean plants. Over the last few weeks, we have been monitoring their growth, ensuring we provided them with the right conditions, to see … Read More
