This week in Art, we have been learning about Johannes Gutenberg and his invention, ‘The Printing Press. Then, we created our own printing tiles with different types of lines, layers and patterns.
Reception have begun their Little Movers PE sessions.
Little Movers is an exciting Dance and Movement company that offer fun engaging classes for early years PE. The children are all engaged and are having great fun learning new skills and techniques which in turn helps them to develop their gross motor skills.
In Reception, for our activities on World Mental Health Day we decided to have a Yoga session and draw a character using a tutorial on YouTube. Relaxing and so much mindfulness!
This week Orla returned to school after spending a few months in Newcastle on the Shaun the Sheep Trial this summer. Phoebe, from 2 Blue, completed the whole trail, finding all 115 in the flock, and was rewarded with a lovely certificate which she shared in school today.
Today 2 Red have been looking for signs of Autumn in the school garden. The children collected natural materials and used these in an Autumn picture.
1 Blue went to visit our local church and were introduced to Reverend Ian. He was very informative about the routines and customs in a Christian church and gave the children a guided tour. The children had a brilliant afternoon and can’t wait to go back!
We have had such a great time creating our own jingle in music today. We used the song ‘ If you’re happy and you know it’ and changed the words to create a jingle for a breakfast cereal.
Year 5 received a very special package from N.A.S.A this week!
The special package contained lots of different artefacts linked to the moon landing and space such as:
- Images of the moon landing
- Moon rocks and scientific equipment to investigate with
- Blue prints of Apollo 11
- Video footage of the moon landing
- A 360 degree tour of inside Apollo 11
- Books about space and our solar system
- Newspaper articles
Year 5 spent time in groups exploring and analysing each artefact, writing down key questions they had about each source.
This provoked a lot of conversation around our space theme and encouraged us to think about different sources of information.
1 Red thoroughly enjoyed their visit to our local church and Reverand Ian was extremely informative. We had a great time and really want to visit again soon! We looked at all the features of a modern church and what they are used for; we sang and we learned about customs and traditions that are important for Christians.
