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Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 10:45am
In Maths, we have started to multiply and divide numbers by 10 and 100. We used place value headings and made the ‘digits dance’ to show how they move when they are multiplied or divided by 10 or 100.
Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 10:43am
We spent some time this morning making Christmas decorations ready to decorate the school next week. We made paper plate snowmen and we are starting to make reindeer tree decorations.
Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 10:42am
Today the Woodpecker class have been busy designing Christmas cards on the computers. We used the tools on Microsoft Word to help us to create our designs. We had lots of fun and created some fantastic designs.
Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 10:41am
This week during our Design Technology lesson the children were tasting and evaluation WW2 desserts, which were made with the available ingredients during the war. The children described the taste, texture and how they would improve the desserts for taste and aesthetics.
Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 10:40am
Todays P.E lesson was inspired by the cold weather. The children worked as a team in relay to collect all of their equipment cards.
They then used communication, speed and agility to collect their equipment needed for the task.
Once the equipment was collected the children in relay began to make their snowmen, teamwork and communication was key to ensure their snowman was constructed correctly.
It was then revealed which team was closest in making their snowman correctly, and what was needed to complete it. The fastest team to complete the snowman were the winners.
Science- The journey of a sound wave.
Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 10:39am
Today the children have been learning about how sound is heard. They began by having a guess what the ear looks like inside. We then watched a video describing all the parts of the ear and its functions.
In groups the children then ordered the statements describing the function of the ear and its process.
We then discussed this as a class. The children then created their own ears by folding paper and labeling each section.
The children finished off by writing an explanation of how the ear works using technical vocabulary using their ear diagrams to help them.
Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 10:37am
In school today we have laid poppies and researched Remembrance Day. We observed a minutes silence to pay our respects and visited the school garden of remembrance.
The children were very respectful throughout the morning. We learned a lot of facts such as: Remembrance Day is also known as Armistice Day, the First World War ended on the 11th November 1918 and that is why we celebrate it on this day and we also learned that the Queen always lays the first wreath at the cenotaph in London.
Ray Holmes – A World War 2 hero
Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 10:35am
Today we enjoyed a workshop about the life of Ray Holmes, who was a soldier in WWII. He took us through his life as a soldier during The Battle of Britain, The Blitz, air raids, rationing and evacuation. He showed us uniforms and told us tales of what it was like during WWII.
Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 10:34am
Well done to those who have already brought in some Sound homework. Fantastic! We have instruments, string phones-with demonstrations and explanations. Research and key facts. Our Homework display is starting to look amazing.
P.E- To build speed, strength and stamina
Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 10:31am
The children warmed up with a relay naughts and crosses game. The children had to use speed, problem solving and teamwork to succeed.
As its Halloween this week we had a Halloween themed lesson.
Witch’s hat. The children had to dodge the witches on a broom. If they were tagged they had to get a witches hat and place it on their head, giving them to power to tag other children. The game ended when all the hats had gone. The children had to use speed and direction to succeed in the game.
Haunted House.
Their were ghosts in the haunted house who could tag the children. The children when they heard the bell had to enter the haunted house and retrieve the sweets and drop them in their bucket. If the children were tagged they were trapped in the house and were then a tagger.
Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 10:28am
What is a letter?
We investigated this question by sorting through pieces from different letters and putting them into sets. We then took each set and built up the letter. Then explored the letter made to look for the features that we could see.
Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 10:27am
We explored our novel further today by looking in-depth at one chapter and considering the thoughts, actions, feelings and surroundings of each character so that we could understand what was happening and why. We then related this to our WWII topic and linked it to evacuees and how they must have felt in the same situation.
Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 10:25am
During P.E today the children were split into teams. They were sent back in time to 1940 when food rationing was introduced in WW2. The children had to do a food dash and collect as much food as they could. The children selected a team captain and discussed their strategy to get the most points before setting off. Each item was worth a different amount of points. Each team had to count up their points and items at the end to announce the winners.
Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 10:21am
Today in art the children have created printing blocks from polystyrene tiles and images from WW2. The children learnt how to use the ink roller and experiment with pressure to create these beautiful designs.
Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 10:19am
More marvelous homework. This week we have had coins from the time of WW2, poems, pictures, information about relatives, Morse code messages and tasty recipes! Well done!
Science- The respiratory system
Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 10:18am
Today in science we have been learning about the respiratory system. The children made models using straws, toothpicks and raisins to represent the trachea, bronchus, bronchioles and alveoli.
The children then labelled their models and went on to discuss the pathway that oxygen takes through our body.
Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 10:16am
During Art today the children created their own shapes from card board and experimented with printing onto paper. The artist we have studied John Piper, who created lino print landscape and architectural paintings during WW2, was used as inspiration as well as a photograph.
Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 10:13am
We have been very busy at home achieving lots and lots of badges and certificates. We celebrated these achievements during our big question time last week.
Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 10:09am
Together we looked at a diary written at the end of World War 1. We explored the vocabulary, the features, we inferred what information we could take from the diary and we also considered questions which we could ask the person who wrote it.
Great discussions by the Woodpeckers today!
Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 10:08am
More wonderful topic homework from the Woodpecker class. Lots of wonderful research, posters and artwork.
Keep it coming in …Mrs Latham and Mrs Williams enjoy looking at all of your efforts.
Why is it important to recycle?
Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 10:07am
In our big question we explored the reasons why it is important to recycle and then we created mini posters to encourage others to recycle.
Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 10:06am
More fabulous homework and show and tell. This week the children have brought in real army uniform, information about the local area during WW2, pictures, poems, songs and models. Our classroom is looking amazing well done!
Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 10:04am
LO- Create a WW2 soundscape.
During our music lesson today each group were given a different image from WW2. Imagining they were transported into the image the children listed the sounds they would hear using onomatopoeia words.
The children created these sounds using their voice, mouth, hands or table and layering these sounds to create their soundscape.
The children then performed their soundscape to the rest of the class.
Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 10:03am
More Homework this week. Absolutely fantastic Woodpeckers please keep the Homework coming we love show and tell at the end of the day. We have had tasty recipes, drawings, artefacts, information and an air raid shelter model. We have a lovely display in class of all your lovely homework.
PE- Getting across the Marshland
Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 10:02am
Today during P.E the children had spots, rope, a weight and beanbag. The British soldiers had been dropped in Germany, and had to get the food across the marshland. Using the spots to get across the children could not walk on the (playground) marshland if they did they had to go back to the start. All team members had to be holding the rope at all times, while the last team member carried the food (weight and beanbag) over the finish line to the other soldiers. The children nominated a team captain, who led the mission. Each team discussed their strategy and used problem solving skills to complete the task.
