In this week's RE lesson, we continued to look at what different faiths believe about the creation of the world. This week, we discussed how Muslim people believe that Allah is the creator of the world and everything in it. We learnt about how Muslim people show thanks to Allah through appreciation of nature, looking after the world and prayer. We appreciated nature by heading to Forest School, selecting our leaves and doing a leaf rubbing.
This week, Year 3 went to the Manor Way Forest School for the first time! All classes got to act out the moment our main character gets transported from a muddy path to a mountain top in our English focus text: Stone Age Boy. We really enjoyed using real-life props such as stones, sticks and boulders to add dramatic effect to this very important scene. We are looking forward to visiting our fantastic Forest School soon for more practical learning outdoors.
To tie in with our topic 'Into the Forest', Beech visited Manor Way's Forest School. We found the witch's cottage, as well as Hansel and Gretel. Whilst we were there we also learnt about habitats and made our own shelters.
This week Year 5 are taking their French lessons outside and used our Manor Way Forest School as their learning space.
As part of the lesson, the children took part in a Sentence Search, where they hunted high and low for French and English translations of different sentences. All sentences contained the verb Jouer (to play) but using different pronouns; the children said it was a fun way to discover and explore French conjugation for the first time.
Here are Aspen and Rowan enjoying their outdoor learning.
Year 4 had the opportunity to experience a dictionary skills lessons outside in our amazing Forest School area last week. In groups they searched the space to find French words for healthy food items, then worked together to find translations in the dictionary.
"It was great to take our learning outside and get to move about a lot"
"Best dictionary lesson EVER"
To introduce our new topic 'Into the Wild', Year 2 took part in a 'Wilderness Day' in the Forest School.
The children got to explore the Forest School by making mud pies, hold worms and other mini-beasts, make bird feeders, jump through the trees and try out bark and leaf rubbings. Here are some photos of our wild day!
This term in Art, Year 2 have been exploring printing techniques. In this lesson, we learnt how to print with natural materials and then extended our learning by creating a repeating pattern.
Our topic this term is 'In to the Forest'. We have been reading 'The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark' in class which follows Plot the owl's adventures in the dark.
Today we were visited by some of Plop's feathery friends!
