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1C Geography - What is weather?
Date: 22nd Jan 2022 @ 11:19am
Our topic for geography this term has been all about weather. The lines of enquiry included;
What is weather? How does it affects our lives? How does the weather changes through the seasons? What activities and celebrations do we engage in throughout the seasons? Is the weather forcasts are reliable? What are the different weather symbols and what do they mean? How and why is the weather different around the world? How are both the Sahara Desert and the Antarctica both deserts when they are so different?
We used video footage and discussions to find out about the seasons; how they change and how they affect our lives. Drawing upon our knowledge and ideas, we created a seasons picture that included; activities, weather conditions, feelings such as (Winter - Christmas, Snow, cold, excitement, bare, freezing etc). Then we explored some famous artists impressions of weather conditions and discussed how the art made us feel, what seasons were being portrayed and how we could tell.
We went outside to explore what the weather was like by using our observational skills. We looked around and found clues that would tell us what the conditions were like on a particular day. We looked at trees, grass, leaves and felt rocks to see if they were wet or dry. we gathered some of the items from the outdoors and used them to create a piece of art that inluded vocabulary to describe the weather such as, autumnal colours, tectures, feelings etc.
We looked at how meteoroligists forecast the weather. We learned about wind speed and direction and how using a wind sock can measure this, cloud coverage is measured using an Oktas scale and rain fall is measured using a rain gauge. After all of this learning, we explored weather forcasts. Over the week, we looked out at the weather and recorded our observations, we then used the BBC weather forecast to compare and see if the forecast was reliable. We found that the only parts of the weather forecast that were slightly different from our observations were the temperature and the wind speed.
We then looked at maps of the world to explore what the weather was like in each of the countries. To enable us to do this, we needed to learn all about how to use a key. We really enjoyed this lesson and found out about why the weather differs depending on how close or far away from the equator the countries are.
Our final lesson was all about comparing the Sahara and the Antarctica. We found out that they have lots similarities AND differences! They are bothe deserts but one is hot and one is cold, one is covered in sand and one is covered in ice. They are both dry, both have storms and both have very few residents.
Date: 20th Jan 2022 @ 2:49pm
Class 6P have been learning all about variables and coding using Scratch!
Date: 20th Jan 2022 @ 2:18pm
Our topic in music this term is 'On the island' and we have been learning some old, typically British folk songs. Last week we discussed the sounds we can hear when we are near the sea and also learnt the folk song, 'My Bonny lies over the ocean'. This week, we discussed sounds of the countyside and recreated those sounds with our hands and mouths. We also learned the short folk song 'Lavenders blue'. Watch the videos attached to see parts of the lesson.
Date: 20th Jan 2022 @ 12:37pm
Today we have been learning that families are all different. We drew our own family tree to compare our family with other families.
Nursery: People Who Help Us - Teachers
Date: 20th Jan 2022 @ 8:01am
Welcome to our new topic, People Who Help Us.
People Who Help Us - Teachers
Understanding the World/ Geography
We are going to be looking at lots of members of our community who help us and finding out what they do. This week we have explored who helps us at school. We had a visit from Mrs Evans, who helps cook our school lunches and Mr Perry who is our caretaker. The children have enjoyed role playing teachers, writing accident slips, taking the register and making their own special badges.
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Date: 19th Jan 2022 @ 9:05pm
Today in English we wrote our first character narrative paragraph.
Date: 18th Jan 2022 @ 4:38pm
- Year 5 have been learning all about how international trading began on the Silk Road in the 13th century.
- The pupils discovered how these pathways linked Asia to Europe and carried merchants with their commodities to new lands.
- The children have discovered how Marco Polo travelled this route, writing a journal of his experiences that went on to inspire Christopher Columbus.
- We have discovered how modern trading is built on import and export, and have created a bar model showing what the UK imports from China each year.
- We have completed a case study of a Banana farmer, Melvin Joseph, from St Lucia. We learnt how lower profits and unfair trading were on the verge of destroying his business.
- We wrote our own information texts about the impact of Fair Trade.
Date: 18th Jan 2022 @ 12:29pm
Class 6P have been learning all about 4 figure and 6 figure grid references in Geography!
Date: 16th Jan 2022 @ 8:21pm
This week in gymnastics, we revised the positions that we had learnt last lesson (star, tuck, pike, straight, straddle, back support etc). We then had a game to see who could remember the poses and get into the pose the quickest.
We also looked at balances using different parts of the body. In pairs, we jogged between the mats and when Mrs Simmons blew the whistle, she would shout a body part (ankle, foot, hands, elbow etc) and with our partner, we would create a balance.
Date: 16th Jan 2022 @ 8:15pm
We loved our first computing lesson of this term even though we didn't use the iPads. Our new topic is 'Programming' and learning about algorithms. This lesson we learned that algorithms are like a set of instructions that we give to devices like computers and iPads to make them do what we want.
We began our lesson by Mrs Simmons reading out a set of instructions to draw a simple picture. We then compared our pictures to see who had followed the instructions well. It was so much fun, we followed a few more set of instructions to draw other simple pictures.
After that, we paired up. One of us was the robot and the other was the person to give instructions. The robot had to do exactly what the other person instructed.
Date: 16th Jan 2022 @ 11:23am
2MB have started their new P.E unit 'Invasion Games'. They have been practicing some ball skills, whilst practicing defending and attacking positions during small group games. We have been really impressed with have fairly and cooperatively the children have been playing.
Date: 16th Jan 2022 @ 8:41am
Why don't penguins need to fly?
Year 2 have really enjoyed our new Geography topic so far. We have learnt that the North and South Poles are very cold places to live, as they are so far away from the Equator. We have also been looking at how different animals around the world are adapted to these extreme environments. We were surprised to find out that the Sahara Desert and Antarctica were both in fact deserts! The children have also been teaching us lots from home, such as camels having 3 stomachs to help them survive with very little nutritious food. Next week we will be looking at polar bears in the Artic, if you would like to do some research at home.
Date: 16th Jan 2022 @ 8:20am
Year 2 have been reading our new book 'The Bog Baby'. We have been exploring the text and The Bog Baby's habitat to dscuss what he might look like. We have also been been using freeze frames to show how we might feel if were to discover The Bog Baby.
Date: 16th Jan 2022 @ 8:09am
Year 2 have been enjoying the start of of new Computing unit. We have learnt that computer programmes follow a sequence of instructions called Algorithms in order to work. We have been exploring how give and follow a set of clear Algorithms.
Date: 14th Jan 2022 @ 3:49pm
In gymnastics this week we have been practicing basic shapes.
Date: 14th Jan 2022 @ 3:46pm
In football this week we have been learning how to dribble the ball.
Date: 14th Jan 2022 @ 3:42pm
Topic - Moving a robot
This lesson introduced the children to floor robots (Beebot app). They talked about what the buttons might do and then tried the buttons out. Time was spent linking an outcome to a button press. The children also considered the direction command buttons, as well as clear memory and run program buttons.
Learning objectives:
- Predict the outcome of a command on a device
- Match a command to an outcome
- Run a command on a device
Date: 14th Jan 2022 @ 3:41pm
In Music this week we have been learning about pentatonic melodies. We have been playing melodies on the xylophone and we have been composing our own.
Date: 14th Jan 2022 @ 3:35pm
Topic - What is weather?
This line of enquiry provides an opportunity for the children to explore how artists in their paintings not only illustrate elements of the weather but also how it makes them feel, smell and hear the atmospheric conditions depicted.
Children looked at a number of pictures of the weather by great artists down the years. They identified the weather conditions shown and discussed which season of the year they think is portrayed. In each case they considered how the artist made them feel when they look at the painting.
The children explored what the weather is like today. They went outside and had to spot signs of the weather from observation. They looked at the trees, stones, ground, leavves. They also examined textures to indicate whether they it wet or dry weather etc. We collected a few items that were used as evidence to show to show what the weather is like, for example, for a brown leaf they may use vocabulary, such as winter, wet, cold.
They made a scrap book style page for the weather today and their own personal experiences of the weather.
Date: 14th Jan 2022 @ 2:54pm
Date: 14th Jan 2022 @ 2:38pm
Design & Technology
Topic- Mechanisms: sliders and levers
The children designed and created their own Christmas card that could move using sliders and levers. They also used a hole punch and split pins so the Santa's body parts could move around.
Date: 14th Jan 2022 @ 2:28pm
The children had lots of fun in school leading up to Christmas last year! We hope you all had a lovely Christmas and Happy New Year!
Date: 12th Jan 2022 @ 10:03pm
Today (12.1.22), the Hobgoblin Theatre visited Townfield and put on a wonderful and very funny production for us about fairytales.
Have a look at the photos of the production.
Date: 12th Jan 2022 @ 9:57pm
We were excited to welcome Ed from Arbor back this half term.
This week we focused on noun phrases. We visited Jean-Claude's restaurant where we could order food ONLY if we used a noun phrase to describe it eg. a delicious, cheesy pizza.
