To conclude our topic work this term Eagles designed and made some amazing hats. The children used skills that they had been working on such as: cutting, gluing, coiling, weaving, stapling and stamping. Once their hats were complete they evaluated their finished products. Can you see the techniques they have used?
In early November, the Key Stage One team received a very special call… the inspectors were on their way! After scraping Miss Bell from the ceiling, convincing Mrs Gibson there isn’t a grade for cleanliness of Lego bricks and rescuing a weeping Mr Housden from his classroom cupboard, the team soon realised that this was …
In KS1 we have been learning to weave using paper. We used a card loom and the vertical slits became our warp. Paper strips were threaded horizontally and these were the weft. We threaded one piece of coloured paper over, under, over, under and the other coloured paper under, over, under over. This created our …
To start our new topic we transformed a piece of fabric using different joining techniques. We tried to make sure that on our fabric we had evidence of cutting, gluing, stapling, sticking, pinning and coiling. Can you see all the techniques?
Thanks to all the contributions sent in for the cake bake on Friday. We still have more to sell and we will be having a mini bake sale during break on Monday. Cakes, which are packaged and in date, will be sold for 20p.
All Dressed Up homework grid 2019 All Dressed Up – Knowledge Organiser- Autumn 2nd Cyc 2 2019 English Knowledge Organiser Y1 Autumn English Knowledge Organiser Y2 Autumn Maths Knowledge Organiser Y1 Autumn 2nd Maths Knowledge Organiser Y2 Autumn 2nd Science Knowledge Organiser Uses of everyday materials
Christmas card proofs have been sent home and the deadline for ordering is this Friday the 8th November. Please send in your orders and payments. Cheques are payable to Tranmere Park PTA. The Bonfire Bake is on Friday after school. Please send in any contributions on Friday morning. Thank you for all the sweets sent …
For our Muddy Puddle Day, KS1 focused on the learning behaviour -Self Manager. The children worked on co-operation, taking and managing risks. They had the opportunity to complete a blindfolded obstacle course, a plank walking challenge, blind man’s buff game and toasted marshmallows. We were really impressed with the children’s attitudes towards the activities.
To conclude our topic ‘Hooray let’s go on Holiday’, we visited Kirkstall Abbey House Museum to learn more about seaside holidays. We had the opportunity to explore the museum, created a seaside donkey mask and took part in a workshop learning about seaside holidays in the past. We really enjoyed our trip.
As part of our topic work we have created our own group sand sculptures. We used our hands to mould the sand in to a sea creature and used tools to add texture and detail. Have a look at our creations.