This year’s Black History Month theme is ‘celebrating our sisters.’ Throughout this month, school council have been helping to promote this theme through delivering ‘person of the week’ presentations to their class. Each week, they’ve chosen an inspirational individual to talk about with the class, sharing who they are, what they do and why/how they’ve had …
In art, Eagles have been learning about the work of Alfred Sisley, a French artist. Today, we have utilised our pastel skills (from earlier on in our topic) to create our own seaside images in his style. We looked carefully at images of Filey, Whitby and Saltburn by the Sea and drew what we could …
In art, Skylarks have been practising a range of techniques using chalk pastels. This includes blending, hatching, little strokes, twisting and pointillism. Next week, we are going to use these techniques when using pastels to create pictures of Yorkshire based holiday destinations!
As a treat for all of our hard work this week, we have taken some time out this afternoon to begin decorating our classroom ready for Halloween! Miss Saunders and her gardening team have been busy growing pumpkins this autumn, which were finally ready for us to begin carving today. We’ve had lots of fun …
As part of our work on place value, the children have been learning to use and recognise the symbols <, > and = associated with less than, greater than and equal to. After comparing objects, they used practical apparatus to help them show that a range of given statements were true. As they were working, …
EYFS Topic – Special Visitor | 18 Oct 2023
We had a visit from a very special visitor today – baby Ariyah and her Mummy Hannah. We found out that Ariyah isn’t even one yet. She can open her eyes, smile, roll over, lie on her tummy and lift her head up. Next she will learn to sit up and crawl. At the …
Today, Year 2 learnt how to estimate on a number line. We made our own number line on the carpet and practised estimating where the numbers should go. We then worked in pairs and challenged each other to estimating on different number lines. Good work, Year 2!
This morning Reception went in to Harvest Festival. Throughout the day we talked about how it is celebrated to give thanks for the crops, which have been safely harvested. We also talked about how Harvest Festivals are often celebrated in church by bringing baskets of food to give thanks to God. We sang songs, made scarecrows, designed …
As part of our topic work, Skylarks have been learning about the world around them. Last week, we learnt about physical geography features (made by nature) and human geography features (made by humans). We identified beaches, seas, oceans, cliffs and mountains as examples of physical geography features and harbours, ports, cities and towns as examples …