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R.E. - Sukkot, the Jewish Festival
Date: 25th Oct 2021 @ 2:54pm
Sukkot is a week-long festival in the sutumn and is held after the harvest has been gathered. In preparation for Sukkot, Jewish people build a makeshift outdoor shelter and decorate it with fruit and other decorations. The shelter (Sukkah) has to be covered with branches and leaves and the sky must be visable through the roof so they are reminded of the presence of God in the heavens as a reminder of the impermanence of the construction. Families eat their meals in the Sukkah each day. Those families from warmer climates actually sleep in the Sukkah for the entire festival.
Particular objects are key symbols in the celebration of the festival:
- A lulav (a collection of branches of palm, willow and myrtle) - the lulav is waved in 6 directions to show that God is everywhere; north, east, south, west, up and down. Each object holds it own symbolism as follows:
- The palm - symbolises the spine
-The willow- symbolises the lips
-The myrtle - symbolises the eyes
- An etrog - a lemon type fruit which symbolises the heart
These serve as a reminder that Jewish people must worship God with all parts of their body.
Here the children creating their own mini sukkah using, card, tape, sticks and leaves. The children had so much fun making them!
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Date: 21st Oct 2021 @ 1:17pm
During our first half term, we have been having lots of fun exploring the outdoor environment. Have a look at all of the activities we have been doing.
4M Woodland Learning - Reading
Date: 21st Oct 2021 @ 12:37pm
At the end of each woodland learning session, we take some time to read our book 'Running Wild' by Michael Morpurgo. Reading outside of the classroom provides us with a different environment to explore our book and gives us time to wind down after an exciting Woodland lesson.
Year 5 - Weekly Overviews (Autumn 1)
Date: 21st Oct 2021 @ 12:35pm
We are always extremely busy in Year 5! As well as providing pictures from specific lessons/activites - this is where you will find all of our weekly overview collages from what we've been up to.
Date: 21st Oct 2021 @ 12:31pm
During History this term, we have been exploring the 'Troublesome Tudors'. We focused on Henry V111 and his 6 wives - Can you believe he beheaded his wives just because they couldn't give him a son?
We also studied the Battle of Bosworth and the causes of this battle - the children loved learning all about the gruesome consequences.
Date: 21st Oct 2021 @ 12:13pm
In Year 2, we are thoroughly enjoying our Reading this term - we have completely immersed ourselves into nature... During Woodland story time, we are loving reading 'Hedgehog by Dick King Smith', around our firepit. We are keeping with the theme of nature during our class story time too; we are listening to the adventures of 'Mr Fox by Roald Dahl'. We were all so shocked when Mr Fox had his tail shot off by the farmer!
We haven't just been reading for pleasure; we know how important it is to develop our own reading skills such as skimming texts to retrieve information and being able to identify features within a text. We have worked hard to answer comprehension questions about 'A River' and also copied the author's style to write our own adventure stories.
In 'Steps to Read', we have been reading and discussing the features of non-fiction texts, in particular, 'The Sea Book by Charlotte Milner'. We have identified: table of contents, headings, sub-headings, different style fonts, pictures with captions, diagrams with labels and we've even learnt all about glossaries. Did you know that octopuses squirt ink at their predators to confuse them?
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Date: 21st Oct 2021 @ 12:13pm
What a fabulous half term we have had completing our English learning. We have been studying the book "The Whale", we have produced two excellent writing outcomes: A setting description and Newspaper report. Have a look at some amazing examples below.
Writing stories as good as these is a long process. We have to plan, write and then edit and redraft - 4M have worked extremely hard on their writing this term and I am very proud of them!
Date: 20th Oct 2021 @ 3:57pm
In History we have been learning about the Romans. We have learned all about Julius Ceasar, Boudicca, the invasion of Britain and the legacy the Romans left for us.
English - Matching Captions with Emotions
Date: 19th Oct 2021 @ 5:13pm
The children are working together to read captions from the Model Text 'Major Glad, Major Dizzy', then matching the emotions with them.
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Date: 19th Oct 2021 @ 5:08pm
Children had to work in groups of 4 and start behind a line in a hoop. The back children took the back hoop, then passed thier hoop along the line to the front of their group. All the children then had to shuffle up a hoop. The chlidren had to communicate and work together, helping eachother to move the hoops.
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Date: 19th Oct 2021 @ 4:52pm
During Black History Month we have been studying famous black people in history. We have learned all about Septimius Severus, he was a Roman Emperor from 190CE until 211CE.
Date: 19th Oct 2021 @ 4:46pm
As part of Black History Month, in music we have been learning about Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin. We have compard their songs and learned to sing some of their famous hits! Darley even had a go at singing solo!
Date: 19th Oct 2021 @ 4:39pm
In our PSHE work we have been having cirle time. This is an opportunity for us to discuss our topic and also to discuss anything that is worrying us.
Date: 19th Oct 2021 @ 4:33pm
In music we have been making our own tunes and writing them down using musical notation.
Date: 19th Oct 2021 @ 4:25pm
We have been learning about digital devices. Today we drew a picture on paper and then drew the same picture using a digital device. We decided there were good points and bad points to both digital and non digital drawing!
Date: 19th Oct 2021 @ 4:22pm
In French we have been learning lots of new words but we have particularly enjoyed learning the song "Head Shoulders Knees and Toes"
Date: 19th Oct 2021 @ 4:18pm
We Love Reading!
In 3C we love to read! We have organised our book corner so we can look after our books and know where to find fiction and non fiction books. 
We have made book marks to help us keep our place in our books.
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We have 2 librarians who keep our book corner tidy and organised!
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Date: 19th Oct 2021 @ 3:57pm
This half term we have been reading books about forces, magnets and rocks. We have focused on non fiction books and using the books to find answers to questions.
Date: 18th Oct 2021 @ 8:44pm
Have a look at what we've been getting up to our in Steps To Read lessons.
Date: 18th Oct 2021 @ 8:19pm
We have been learning lots in French this term including how to say how many pets we have and what we look like! We love playing the competitons and have begun to write some French sentences! Have a look at the pictures below.
Date: 18th Oct 2021 @ 8:15pm
Class 6P have really loved their music lessons this term.
They have enjoyed learning all about rhythm and loops and creating their own using the website 'Incredibox!'
They also really enjoyed using the Glockenspiels to recreate some Jazz music!
Date: 17th Oct 2021 @ 8:36pm
In our history unit this term, we have been learning all about two very famous explorers.
Christopher Columbus. First, to generate a discussion around who our first mystery person could be, we looked at some artefacts to give us some clues. We discovered that this mystery person must have been a traveller. We thought this because there was a compass, a globe, a map and a telescope. Our next task was to think of some questions that we would like to ask this person. We used open-ended questions so that we could find out more about them. Next, we were introduced to a portrait of Christopher Columbus and watched a short video about one of his most famous voyages. We learnt a lot of facts about him and created a simple fact-file. Here are some below;
Once we had learned all about Christopher Columbus' voyage, we made comparisons about his journey a present-day sea journey.
We discovered that we would much prefer a modern-day sea journey!!!
Our next famous explorer was Neil Armstrong. We found out that he was the first man to ever walk on the moon!!!!! We watched footage of his famous mission, looked at what the surface of the moon is like (it is NOT made from cheese!). We created a list of all of the things that Armstrong would have needed to take to the moon with him.
Our final task was to compare the two explorers and their missions. We compared the places that they went, how they travelled, what they accomplished and how people remember them now! We discovered that although Christopher Columbus was popular at first because he found the Americas, once people found out that he had stolen all of the people's riches and made the locals do ALL of the horrid jobs on board his ship, people changed their opinion of him. Neil Armstrong was very popular and people really liked him, his mission changed the world for ever!!!
Date: 17th Oct 2021 @ 7:48pm
Today we have been learning how to use the trackpad (mouse) on a laptop to draw a sketch of ourselves. We have then explored how to add text to a picture. We found this activity quite tricky, but, with some extra practise, we will get better!
Date: 17th Oct 2021 @ 3:04pm
We have been researching the meanings of different words from our book 'The Ironman'
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