Throughout the year, Reception learn about different festivals celebrated within in our community. Recently they explored Diwali, the festival of light. Activities included manipulating dough to make diva lamps, designing Mehdi on hand templates and using different textures to create a paper diva. Some of the children were excited to share their own experiences of the festival.
Practising Bowling in PE!
This
term in PE, Year 4 have been learning various cricket skills. During our ‘bowling
learning’, We started by practising our run-up and aiming at the stumps.
Everyone focused on using a straight arm and following through to make the ball
travel in the right direction. We also worked in pairs to take turns bowling
and batting, cheering each other on and giving tips for improvement. It was
great to see everyone getting more confident and accurate with their bowling.
We can’t wait to use our new skills in a real cricket matches next term!
Year 1 enjoyed their topic day on our first dayback. Children were read our new book 'The Three Little Pigs'. They then visited different classrooms to make houses from different materials. They are all now master builders.
We took a trip to the London
Canal Museum in King’s Cross. Our trip started with a walking tour along the
Regent’s Canal, where we stopped to consider areas of danger and safety,
including its uses both past and present. The canals played a huge role in
industry by transporting grain and coal around the city to fuel the factories
and warehouses in this area.
At the museum, we took part in
a ‘Cargoes Workshop’, where we learnt how poor the roads used to be and why
canals were built. Following this, we explored objects that were transported by
the canals throughout London using ‘mystery bags’ and our senses. Part of the
workshop focussed on recapping the differences with natural vs man-made water
and we reviewed the features of rivers that we have learnt back at school.
