Term 4 week 6

This week two year 10's called Mags and Annabel came to our school to do work experience.

On Thursday we went to Forest School in the park and we made decorations with wood, string and pens.  Also we dug holes to find worms.

In English we have been writing Mary Anning fact sheets.  Would you like to come and read them?

In Design Technology we made moving dinosaurs using levers because we wanted to learn how levers work.

Term 4 Week 5

This week it was World maths Day on Wednesday so we have been doing lots of activities using money.  We went shopping in the hall to buy some fruit to do some cooking.  On Monday reception made fruit kebabs, on Tuesday year 1 made watermelon pizza and on wednesday year 2 made fruit smoothies.  How scrumptious! On Friday we did outdoor maths and some games.  We played What's the Time Mr Wolf, the twelves game and we drew our own hopscotches.  

on Thursday we walked to Flora's daddy's farm and we saw lots of animals, a bull, some cows and their calves, chickens, sheep and their lambs, some chicks and a sheep dog. 

We made Mother's day cards for our mums.

Term 4 week 4

In History we have been learning about Mary Anning's life and we made a timeline of the important events that happened in her life.  We noticed which ones were happy and sad.  

On Tuesday we made flowers for Mother's Day and we are going to display them in the church for the Mother's Day service.

On Friday we celebrated Odd Socks day by wearing odd or fancy socks to help people with Downs Syndrome.  We also had a talent Show for Comic Relief where we danced, read poems, did magic tricks and told jokes.  

Term 4 week 3

In History we are learning about Mary Anning and we found out that she discovered the first Ichthyosaur fossil.  She was a famous palaeontologist who found lots of fossils of different dinosaurs.  We pretended to be paleontologists like Mary Anning. What fun!  Would you like to go and hunt for fossils?

In ICT we have been looking at different artists and their style and we created paintings in their style on our computers and ipads.  

Term 4 week 2

This week we have been celebrating World Book Day by doing these activities.

On Monday we shared our favourite book with our reading buddies.

On Tuesday we bought in a book we liked but don't read anymore and we swapped books with each other.

On Wednesday we went to a different part of the school and we had a story with a different adult.  

On Thursday we had a world book day breakfast of pain au chocolat and hot chocolate while some parents read to us.  We also got a World Book day book.

On Friday we dressed up as book characters.

What a busy and exciting week!

Term 4 week 1

In English we are are focussing on a story called 'Billy and the Beast' and we wrote a blurb about the characters who are Fatcat, Billy, The Terrible Beast, some adorable little rabbits, a hedgehog, a fox and some mice.  This term we have new play leaders and their names are Natalie and Alex.  Today we played with the parachute and the games were shark attack, shake the balls and the fruit game.  This month we have been trying to earn Archie's badge by scooting, parking and striding, walking or cycling to school.  lots of us managed to get the badge.

Term 3 week 6

This week we have been doing art every afternoon.  First of all we looked at the art of Charlie French who is an abstract artist.  Next we used the primary colours red, yellow and blue and spread them onto paper with different tools.  Then we painted on top of them with different colours making different patterns and textures.  After we mixed the primary colours to make the secondary colours purple, orange and green.  Yesterday we looked at Vincent Van Gogh's paintings and we noticed that he used thick paint and it looked bumpy when it dried.  This is called impasto.  Finally we used all the things that we have learned to create our own expressive masterpieces!  Would you like to come and see them?  

All of Class 1 went to Forest School this week and the Year 2's  toasted marshmallows and Reception and Year 1 toasted brioche on the fire. How yummy!

Term 3 week 5

This week Year 1 and 2 have finished their shape poems and we are going to put them up on display.  Would you like to come and read them?  The reception children had a fire at Forest School yesterday and they toasted chocolate brioche on the fire and ate them!  How delicious!  After school on Friday some people are going to the school disco. We will be doing a lot of dancing.  What a lot of fun!

Term 3 week 4

The reception children went to Forest School to do art activities.  They painted another home for stick man and made a bow. They also played a game where they had to find a little yellow teddy bear.  On Tuesday a police lady called Juliet came to talk to us about how to keep safe.  In science we have been sorting groups of animals according to what they eat. Some animals are meat eaters, they are called carnivores.  A plant eater is called a herbivore.  Some animals eat plants and meat and they're called omnivores.

Term 3 week 3

In English we have been reading shape poems to give us ideas for writing our own.We read poems about an ammonite, a tiger, a penguin, a robin and a blackbird.  We chose an animal to write about and we thought of adjectives and nouns to describe them. We could choose from sea otter, african elephant, a tiger, a snake, a horse and a shark.  

At Forest School the Reception children played games on the playground and made a stick house for stick man. Then they went to the park and made a den to shelter from the rain.  After that they did some water painting. 

Term 3 week 2

On Tuesday we had a visitor from the NSPCC who told us how to speak out and stay safe.  They also bought Buddy with them who ids a dark green speech bubble!

In our Geography lesson we went to Scotland and we visited loch Ness, Loch Lomond, Edinburgh Castle, Ben Nevis and Skara Brae on the Isle of Skye where we also found some fossils!  On Thursday the Reception children had their second Forest School session.  They went to base camp to learn the Forest School rules and do some bird calling.  They looked for Stick Man who had got lost and painted a new home for him at the park.

Term 3 week 1

On Tuesday we had a special assembly about the NSPCC to help us learn about how to keep safe.  This week we have changed our role play into a Paleontology Lab where we can go to explore for fossils.  On Thursday the Reception children did a whole morning of Forest School. How exciting! They made friends for Stick Man and built snow castles and then they had a drink of hot chocolate! Our playground council have made some changes to playtimes so Class 1 have a football slot on the rota and we have play leaders leading games on a Friday.

Term 2 weeks 6 and 7

What a busy two weeks we've had!  We went to see the pantomime Cinderella at the theatre which was great fun.  We had our Christmas dinner at The Royal Ship pub followed by a game of skittles and a visit from Father Christmas.  We performed our nativity play at the church in the morning and in the school hall in the evening.  We ended our 'Going Green' topic by upcycling an old T.shirt and doing a fashion show of our amazing creations.

Term 2 weeks 4 and 5

Last week we went to the library bus for the first time this year because it kept breaking down!  We chose a book to take home.  This week we put up a Christmas workshop in the classroom.  When we go in there we can wrap presents, wear a Santa hat, write cards, deliver presents and we can turn the fairy lights on.  We have two advent calendars.  one has chocolate coins in and the other one is a stable.

Term 2 week 3

On Wednesday we had a visitor called Mark who told us about recycling.  We learned that we need to recycle rubbish to save our world.  He also showed us a plasma ball and we could use it to touch electricity safely and we could also see it. How exciting!  In Science we reused some cardboard to make some models.  

Term 2 week 2

On Monday it was Rememberance Day and we planted some poppy crosses to remember the people from Luckington and Alderton who fought in World War I and World War II.  This week it is anti-bullying week  and we are learning how to help people who have been bullied.  The Reception children planted some daffodil bulbs in our old welly boots to reuse them.  On Friday it was Children in Need so we wore spots to support children who aren't as lucky as us.  

Term 2 week 1

On Monday we were excited to see Mrs Butler back at school.  In Science we investigate which cloth would be the best for mopping up a spillage.  We found out that the tissue absorbed the most water but it ripped so we decided the blue paper towel was the best.  On Wednesday Mrs Newman showed us a new game called book bingo.  We have to read different books to different people and in different places.  Once we've done it we can colour in the square.  After we finish our chart we can get a prize!  In Outdoor learning we had a scavenger hunt and we collected lots of beautiful things in a treasure box and then we used them to make picture frames.

Term 1 week 7

In Art this week we have been designing and creating sculptures. First we looked at some interesting sculptures and we and we were inspired by a sculpture of a tiger made out of recycled milk bottles.  We decide to make our sculptures out of recycled materials.  We experimented with different materials then we decided to make an underwater sea sculpture.  We sketched our ideas and now we are going to make them.

On Tuesday we had a visitor who talked to us about our feelings.  She bought Harold the giraffe in to see us. 

Term 1 week 6

In Geography we have been learning about the four seasons which are Autumn, Summer, Winter and Spring.  Wow look at how the weather changes in each season!  In Autumn it is rainy, sunny, windy and cloudy.  In Summer it is beautiful and sunny.  In Spring it is sunny, cloudy, windy, overcast and rainy.  In Winter it is snowy, rainy, cloudy, frosty and we might get hail stones.  In Science we investigated which materials were magnetic.  We found out that things made from metal are magnetic but not all metals are magnetic.  The metals that are magnetic are nickel, iron and steel.

Term 1 week 5

On Monday we had our Harvest Festival and we sang some songs to our parents.  We all donated some food to the Malmesbury food bank.  On Tuesday we went on a conker hunt and we found lots of conkers! On Wednesday we had a visitor called Richard and he talked to us about staying safe in our digital life.  Today Jessie and Abi made up some games for us to play at playtime.  What a busy week!

Term 1 week 4

On Monday we are having a harvest festival to say thank you to the farmers so we have been practising some songs.  Our reception children now stay for the whole day and they are enjoying snack time, playtime, PE, phonics working in the outside classroom and painting.  In English Year 1 and Year 2 have been writing flyers about meteor showers.  

Term 1 week 3

This week we have been working on a new book called 'Look up' by Nathan Bryon and we have been describing the main character called Rocket.  On Monday a visitor called Miss Diplazes came to our school from Switzerland.  She is staying for three weeks.  She told us all about Switzerland and even gave us some Swiss chocolate. So delicious! In gardening club we picked the apples from the trees and ate them at playtimes. 

Term 1 weeks 1 and 2

On the first day back we changed into new year groups.  The Year 2's are excited that they now get to phone Mrs Neilson with the dinner numbers and the Year 1's are excited about having their own pencil cases. We also have anew child in year 1 and six new reception children.  Our new topic is all about looking after and saving our world and we wrote a song called, 'What a Wonderful World.' When Danielle and Molly were playing in the playground they spotted a massive caterpillar and we discovered it was called an Elephant Hawk Eye Moth caterpillar.  What a wonderful creature! Today we are having a school barbecue to celebrate our new families.