Forest school - Let’s get creative!
We used a range of natural materials to make a variety of creative items, we had fun creating them, we hope you like them!
Awesome Addition
This week in Maths we have been focussing on adding two four digit numbers together with one or more exchange. Year 4 have shown determination in their Maths lessons this week, as at the beginning of the week we found exchanging to be a very tricky method to master. However by the end of the week…
Wonderful writing!
This week Year 4 have started their new text 'Charlotte's Web'. We have had some insightful discussions when discussing the book, and have created role on the walls for our main characters to understand their thoughts, feelings and emotions. Towards the end of the week, we acted out some of our…
Forest School - Mud and Bugs!
We had great fun today painting with MUD! We also explored and hunted for bugs, the rain meant we found lots of worms!
Nature hunt
We had great fun in our first after school, Forest school session, we explored our outdoor environment hunting for twigs, flowers, stones, leaves birds and BUGS!
BeWILDerwood Adventures!
Last week, Year 4 went to BeWILDerwood to explore the outdoors. We had such a fantastic time zooming down zip lines, getting lost in sky mazes and sliding down super speedy slides! Both Manatees and Stingrays represented the school wonderfully and it was so lovely to see the children having a…
Let’s Go Fly a Kite!
This afternoon in DT we made kites using straws, feathers, wrapping paper and string in our DT topic ‘Let’s Go Fly a Kite’. We had great fun making them and I was so impressed with how they turned out
Transition day in Year 5
Stingrays have become Dolphins today! We have been working hard with a creative piece of writing based on a music video about a girl and her pet giraffe. We have created our own vocabulary word bank with some adventurous adjectives and adverbs. We have enjoyed reading the stories and we look…
Marvellous maths
This week in Maths, the children were introduced to a new skill to help them when dividing 2, 3 and 4 digit numbers. This skill was short division using the bus stop method. At first the children found this very tricky but by the end of the week the children have become more confident, some…
Exciting Eid
On Friday afternoon, we tried some wonderful traditional Eid food prepared for us by our very generous parents and celebrated Eid by taking part in a fantastic activity, drawing our own Mehndi intricate patterns!
Detailed deserts
In our Geography lesson this week, we have been learning all about how deserts are formed. By the end of the lesson, we were able to confidently use key high level vocabulary to give detailed explanations to answer challenging questions. Some key words included: vegetation, dersertification,…
Wonderful Writing
This week in Writing we have been focussing on understanding how to punctuate dialogue correctly. This is something Stingrays at the beginning of the week really struggled with. We are very proud of how the children have shown such determination and resilience over the week; show casing just how…