It was a strange day in Puffins! We received a message from an Ancient Roman woman asking for our help. Someone had stolen something from her and it was our job to work out who the culprit was! We needed to use our amazing Roman Numeral knowledge to decode clues. Of course, we were able …
Today, we took part in our Entry Point for our new topic, The Mayans. We used the book, The Rain Player, to become Historical Detectives! We took pictures from the book and analysed them to see what we could find out about The Mayans and their culture. We even took advantage of the nice weather …
Please find attached the Knowledge Organisers for English, Maths, Topic and Science. Also, please find the Homework Grid for our topic this term, Mayans. Please complete a minimum of two pieces. UKS2 Homework Grid – The Mayans – Autumn Knowledge organiser – Mayans.docx English – Autumn – War Horse.docx UKS2 Science – Art of Being …
As we move into some more normality (fingers crossed), more sports clubs are now opening their doors for various different sessions. I have recently been informed of two different opportunities from local Netball clubs that are offering clubs for younger age groups. The first is from Otley Netball Club. The sessions are played at Prince …
Our next Science experiment was all about investigating how to sort materials. To start with, the children were split into groups and given a range of materials. They were asked to sort them and initially went for categories like size, shape and colour. We then stopped and had a discussion about other more scientific ways …
To kick off our new Science topic of Materials, we made Alien Soup. We received strict instructions from an alien personally on how to create the perfect Alien Soup. However, once we’d finished following the instructions carefully, we found out we needed to get the salt back! We were quite confused by this at first …
As a start to our introduction fortnight to our new Mental Health Initiative, the 5B’s, we talked about each ‘Be’ and what they meant. The first one that we looked at in detail was Be Mindful. To start us off, we worked on our breathing techniques and completed a short breathing exercise. It made us …
As face-to-face Extra-Curricular activities have been put on pause for the moment, we are happy to offer you the opportunity to attend one virtually! Physical Activity is more important than ever right now and that is why the Youth Sport Trust have launched a Children’s after school club channel on YouTube. Your child can go on …
This week, to mark the end of our Statistics Maths topic, we took our Maths learning outside! We’ve been learning all about how to interpret and draw line graphs but we decided we wanted to become the line graph! We talked about the different axis and data and then organised ourselves into the various features …
Today marked our second Muddy Puddle session of the half-term. We spent the morning outside in the school grounds completing two different tasks. First, we used natural materials to create number equations. Different materials matched to different numbers and we had to create number sentences related to these. Everyone really got involved and particularly enjoyed …