We started this half term’s topic ‘Hooray, Let’s Go On Holiday’ with an exciting entry point today. Our outdoor area became a travel agents as the children explored holidays around the world. They took on the roles of the travel agents or customers and booked and arranged holidays. They had to consider the amount of …
Today is National Fitness Day. Herons took part in the ‘In It For a Minute Challenge’. We enjoyed running, dancing, planking, flying like a bird, jumping, balancing, throwing and catching a ball and hula-hooping!
In today’s maths lesson, we used a variety of concrete resources to build and represent different 2-digit numbers. We identified the number of tens and ones in each number.
As our exit point, Jacob from Codswallop helped us to bring our recent history topic to life through drama. We learnt about Harry Ramsden and the famous Harry Corbett (writer of the Sooty Show) both of whom were born in Guiseley. We explored what it might have been like to have been inside Harry Ramsden’s …
This half-term, our topic work focuses on the story ‘Beegu’ by Alexis Deacon. This morning, there had been a mysterious crash landing on the banks at Tranmere Park Primary School and Mrs Hodgson sent the KS1 children on a mission to investigate the scene!! Beegu had left us lots of clues, including a code-breaker letter …
Our topic this half term has been ‘People from the Past’. Throughout this topic, the children have learnt about 3 famous nurses – Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole and Edith Cavell. As our exit point, we turned our classroom into a nurse training school for the day. The children came into school dressed as nurses and …
Our topic this half term is ‘People from the Past – Significant People’. As our entry point, the children became historical detectives, investigating three famous nurses – Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole and Edith Cavell. The children worked in small groups and used IPads and books to find out more about their lives. The children have …
Over the past 2 weeks, we have been focusing our learning around a book called ‘The World Made A Rainbow’. This lovely story focuses on positivity and hope and has helped us to understand that it’s ok to feel sad, or afraid sometimes. As part of our work on rainbows, we took part in an exciting …
Since returning from lockdown, we believed a priority for us was for our ‘bubbles’ and friendships/relationships, to build and bond together developing what it means to be a good friend and make people feel happy, including ourselves. We spent the day outside as we know fresh air is one of the biggest factors in good …
In maths, we have been practising counting in steps of 2, 3, 5 and 10. Today, we made spiral number snakes. We decorated the snakes, wrote out our chosen number pattern, cut them out and practised reading the snake’s number pattern out loud, forwards and backwards. A fun morning! Take a look at our pictures below.