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Falcons are fabulous artists
Here are some of the pictures that the Falcon's Class produced. Can you guess which artist inspired them?
Category: Falcons
Chocolate experiment
We have been learning about changing materials. We have investigated what happens to chocolate and ice when it is heated.
Mrs Cassidy gave us a chocolate button. We had to hold it in our hands while she read a poem about chocolate. (see below) At the end of the poem we opened our hands. The…
Category: Herons
Shoebox Jungles
Today we have been creating shoe boxes to make jungle scenes. This is part of our topic and computing. We are going to use the scenes to produce a stop animation movie about the jungle. We will upload more photos as we finish them.
Category: Robins
Reduce, Reuse & Recycle
Week beginning 12th January 2015
Recycling and Comenius week
What a busy week this was! Thank you very much for bringing in our recyclable materials - they were very useful! We were actually shocked to see just how much we throw away and recycle - so we were excited to reuse our materials…
Category: Owls
Exploring the icy weather!
This week the very cold conditions have left some fantastic ice in our playground for us to explore! We learnt some new words like transparent, jagged and solid.
Category: Ducklings
Practising our cursive letter formation
We love to practise forming our letters and letter patterns on a big scale!
Category: Ducklings
Jack Frost Junk Modelling
Some of us have enjoyed being creative, using lots of different recyclable materials to make models of Jack Frost in the work shop area.
Category: Ducklings
Y5 Coke Can Buggy project with Baines
This project was undertaken by a group of Yr 5's from all 3 classes in the 5 weeks leading up to Christmas 2014. They worked for 5 weeks with a DT teacher from Baines High School learning new skills and working with new equipment to help create their buggy. On the last week they got to take their…
Category: Eagles
Gymnastic routines
We are creating a gymnastic routine to the piece of music 'Requiem For A Dream'. We are focusing on 4 main areas within gymnastics: jumps, rolls, balance and travelling. Our routines are still in their infancy at the moment but we are evaluating and improving them each week. We hope to have them…
Category: Eagles
Comenius Recycled Art
Today we have begun our recycled inspired art. We are using a well known picture by Belgian art Renee Magritte. The picture 'The Son of Man' from 1964 has inspired us to use recycled materials to create our own versions of the picture. When completed, they will be on display in the main…
Category: Eagles
Subtraction stories
It was very windy this week, but we managed to do some maths outside! We have been learning that subtraction means taking some away or making less.
We enjoyed playing skittles to help us practise saying subtraction number sentences, for example, "I had 10 skittles. 3 were knocked down. That…
Category: Ducklings
Making snowmen
It was a real shame we had no real snow this week, only hailstones! Instead we had to use play dough to make our snowmen! We have used recyclable materials such as bottle tops, twigs and fabric scraps to add finishing touches to our creations.
Category: Ducklings