Year 4 Science

In Science, Year 4 have been investigating 'States of Matter'. We found out what properties a solid, liquid and gas have and talked about examples of these in real life. 

This week, we took a closer look at some everyday products, such as marshmallows, shaving foam and cornflour, and used our knowledge to decide if they were a solid, liquid or gas and explained our reasons why.

 

Later in the lesson, we discovered what happened to cornflour once we added water and thought about other examples when matter might change state. 

Aadam in Pine Class was especially keen to demonstrate his understanding as he brought in a cup of ice the following day. He explained that the water in the cup was now a solid after he placed it in the freezer but last night it was a liquid!

Yoga with Year 5 Maple!

Yoga with Maple!

As part of our indoor PE this term, Year 5 will be learning all about yoga.

We have discussed how yoga is an ancient form of exercise that focuses on strength, flexibility and breathing to boost both physical and mental well-being. 

So far, we have studied a variety of poses and discussed (at length) what muscles are used whilst performing them. We have also begun to group our poses by their similarities in order to eventually create a sequence that flows.

Below are some photos of Maple Class thoroughly enjoying their lessons so far.

#PE #Yoga #Creative

Sketching in Year 4 Poplar Class!

Poplar class in Year 4 have been busy experimenting with different sketching pencils and practising making gradients. 

Art in Year 3

In our Art lessons, Year 3 have been learning about cave paintings. We began this topic by looking at pictures of cave paintings from across the world and completing a 'See, Think, Wonder'. We noticed that most of the humans in cave paintings were hunting animals, and most of the animals were running or leaping. 

We then used sketching pencils to practise shading techniques such as blending, hatching and stippling. Using these techniques, we sketched images of humans and animals seen in cave paintings. 

Maths in Reception

Reception Maths!

In Maths this week we have been learning how to use prepositional language! At the beginning of the week we played a game of 'Simon Says'. We learnt the words on top, under, up and down. We then used what we learnt to move our teddy bears in different positions using a cup. 

On Friday we used Beebots! We enjoyed finding out how our Beebots move. We learnt about each arrow and what it means. We found out how to stop and start our Beebots. We enjoyed using these to learn about different directions! 

PE in Year One

Year One have been enjoying their PE lessons over the last few weeks. 

We have been practising the skills needed for basketball, including passing the ball, bouncing the ball and dribbling it to our partners. We have also been thinking about movement and have been moving our bodies in different ways. We made our bodies big, small and into different animal positions. Once into our positions, we tried holding them for 5 seconds.

Year 5 - WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!

 Year 5 Music....

SYNCOPATION!

We are working hard on our rhythm skills this term. Today we focussed on playing 'footsteps' on the xylophones, and clapping 'syncopated' rhythms over the top.

Our footsteps provided a steady beat to clap our rhythms over the top of. We used our notation knowledge to read one rhythm, and used our topic words to create a second - more complicated pattern.

Here are Maple class playing our patterns: