Blog by Tag: Understanding the World

This week we have been looking at the farm and animals on the farm. We have done lots of jigsaws and matching puzzles with animals. We tried and explored some vegetables that could grow on a farm. We printed some sheep pictures and matched pig tails to the correct colours. we looked at big and…

This week in chestnut class we have been exploring and learning all about farm animals. 
The children have enjoyed joining in with lots of Attention Autism activities. We have had fun singing songs and exploring foods that are grown on the farm. We did some vegetable counting and sorting, each…

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This half term, as part of our “dinosaurs” topic, 7R will be reading “Mary Anning and the Time Twister” by Louisa Glancy. Each week will be reading one chapter of the book on Purple Mash and then we will complete activities based on that chapter. During chapter 1, we met a class…

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Well done for another week learning from home! This week we have learnt about Mary Anning, a palaeontologist who is famous for discovering dinosaur fossils! What a cool job! We have researched Mary Anning and produced fact files using Purple Mash this week. Take a look at some of…

Willow class have had a very busy week this week with lots of learning from home. Luckily for us, they have sent in some photos so let’s have a look!
 

Alfie has been working hard at home learning how to use the email app sending messages to his friends with help from Nana. Well done Alfie!
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Firstly, a huge well done for keeping up the good work. We have been learning from home for a really long time now and I am so proud of each and every one of you for keeping up the good work! I know your families are extremely proud of you too!

Now, let’s look back on this weeks…

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Willow class have been feeling very creative last week, enjoying MADD week through arts at home and entering the flag competition. Let’s have a look at what Willow class have been up to!

Alfie has been enjoying time in the sunshine in the garden with Nana! He has been keeping…

This week we thought we would copy other classes and give you a peek of what the staff have been up to. 

Mrs Barrand has been very busy working at home and looking after Mr Barrand.

Mrs Lilley has been busy with her little girl, Olivia. She has some very exciting news to share with you all…

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I hope you are all enjoying our new topic - dinosaurs! I love the research you have done this week and look forward to hearing what else you find out over the coming weeks. Have a look at each other’s work below. Tyler and Kristen have added questions to their fact files for you…

On Monday, Willow class learnt about the Hindu spring festival Holi. We chose blue as our class colour and some children chose to wear this colour to school for the day. Willow class loved the idea of the paint throwing celebrations and made their own powder paint art following an attention autism…

Today 7R celebrated “History day” as we missed it last week due to our Calvert residential trip. We have had a fantastic day!

This morning, Mrs Crouch split us into research teams. Each team was given research questions to find out the answer to. The teams had to delegate roles to decide a…

Last Thursday was our first history day of the year and all primary phase classes learnt about the Victorians.

Willow class learnt all about what it was like to be a child in the Victorian era, looking at Victorian schools and workhouses for children. The children loved learning about all the…