French in the Forest School

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.

Le Français dans le fôret!

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"

¿Qué hay en Bannockburn? Year 3 Spanish vocab hunt around Manor Way

This week in Spanish Year 3 took part in a vocabulary hunt around the Manor Way site. The Spanish clues were in different locations around the Manor Way site for example el estudio, el campo de fútbol, la sala de música and la oficina de los directores. 

Once we worked out which location to visit, there we would find a Spanish noun phrase to add to our vocabulary sheet such as un horno, una batería, unos carillones and unas combas. 

Then we used our completed sheets to build sentences using our key verb of this term "hay" which means 'there is' or 'there are' for example

En la cocina hay un horno.

En el campo de fútbol hay unas porterías.

En la sala de música hay uno carillones.

En los cobertizos hay una combas.

It was a great opportunity to learn outside of the classroom walls and we had a brilliant time!

 

Learning Outdoors in Year 2!

This week, Year 2 have taken some of their lessons outside! Learning outside is great because it helps to create memorable learning experiences and gives us freedom.

Here are pictures of a Maths lesson where we played Times Table Tadpoles! We were all given numbers in the 2, 5 and 10 times tables. We had to pair up and multiply our numbers together. We then swapped the numbers around and got the same answer. This showed us that multiplication is commutative. We then used our numbers to divide, but we found out that division is NOT commutative. 

We also completed a Science lesson outside! After discussing what living things are, we went to the forest school and garden to look for:

• Things that were living
• Things that were dead
• Things that have never lived

We can't wait to complete more learning beyond the classroom!

May is National Walking Month!

May is National Walking Month and usually we would celebrate it by having Walk to School Week in mid May. This year, whilst things are different and children should only be out walking as part of their daily exercise, Living Streets has created a space where you can find FREE resources and activities!

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Living Streets will be releasing new resources and fun activities on the page on a weekly basis, so keep going back for more. 

Remember – during lockdown, it is important that we all follow the latest Government rules to keep ourselves and others safe. 

It is also important that we stay connected in every way we can and share any positive experiences. Ask your parents to share your daily walks, thoughts, pics and videos on social media using #WalkingFromHome, as a reminder for families to stick together! Or you could send it in to the school newspaper or working together email addresses.

No matter the times, the walk to school movement is still strong; whether we are walking to or from an actual school whilst our family members do their keywork, or just around the neighbourhood as part of your local daily exercise - walking is a fun, active and healthy activity to do!

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Year 3 - Visit to St Nicholas Church

As part of our learning in RE, Year 3 visited St Andrews Church to look closely at the building, the windows and the various objects inside! 

Luckily, Father Andrew was on hand to answer any questions we had and to help us find some of the things we were looking for such as the font. 

The stained glass windows even inspired us to make our own back in the classroom!