Planting trees

This afternoon every reception child has planted their own tree in our school grounds. This is part of our ongoing project to develop our outside learning environment. We used bamboo sticks to help the trees grow upright and a plastic expanding tubes to protect the trees whilst they become big and strong.

Maundy Thursday and squeaky clean feet!

In RE this half term we will be learning about the meaning behind Easter.

Our first lesson was about Maundy Thursday and the Last Supper. We have learnt about Jesus and his disciples at his last meal. 

We all talked about who our friends are and what it means to be a good friend, Judas betrayed Jesus and we know that it's not right to lie about anyone to get your own way. Before the Last Supper Jesus washed the feet of his disciples to show them that everyone is equal and even when he is not there they need to take care of each other. At first the children were reluctant to wash each other's feet but at soon as they realised the favour would be returned they got stuck in. They all enjoyed caring for their friends and show gratitude when they had their feet washed.

Space

Firstly, sorry for the lack of posts this week, it has been a very busy first week back. Here's hoping next week will be calmer! 

We have started our new topic of Space this week and we are already learning a lot. Our focus this week has been the moon landing. 

We begun by dispelling any myths that the moon is made of cheese...although that would be very cool!

We made our own craters in wet sand.

We used different objects to create the varying sizes of craters.

We learnt about the three astronauts that were sent into space in 1969 to become the first people on the moon.

The next thing we did was learn about rockets, their components and the purposes of each part. This is in preparation to use making our own rockets. Yesterday we all designed a rocket and thought carefully about the shape and size with regards to aerodynamics. 

This afternoon we have begun to make the rocket starting with the body. 

Pictures of our rocket building to follow!

Maths-addition using iPads

Yesterday we had a lovely visit from one of our governors. Mrs Marlow came to work with us in our maths lesson. We used the iPads to practise our addition skills on a bingo game. We were able to work collaboratively with a partner and take turns on the game, we even helped each other with the calculations. We had a busy lesson because as well as playing bingo some of us also practised writing numbers to 10. We used the 'little writer' app which helped us to form the numbers correctly.

Story Night- a sneak preview

Here are a couple of pictures from our 'story night'. There are more to follow on here and the school blog.

Ground Force Day- Bug Hotel

This afternoon key stage one and reception children have been outside for the ground force day building a bug hotel. The 'bug hotel' will eventually be an inviting and comfortable home for a variety of bugs and creatures. We have used only natural materials to accommodate the fantastic wildlife.  Here are some photos of what we have done. 

We are very lucky to have waterproof suits so we didn't get too wet when the quick rain shower happened.

The tube will make a nice bed for a family of hedgehogs!

We got very muddy!

Mathematics- doubles

The concept of 'doubles' was introduced to us today. We doubled sets of objects and began to record corresponding sums.

Double 10

Double 2

Recording our work