Ratio and Present Tense Stories
By Nurun and Kyrah This week in maths we learnt about ratios and how to answer the questions in different ways. We also learnt how to do scale factors and to recognise similar shapes! This week in English we are writing a shared story. The name of our story is Old...
Visualising, drawing and representing Ratio in Hadid
Today we applied our understanding and knowledge of ratio to solve ratio problems. After reading the problem, we had to make it with counters to understand the structure of the problem. Once we made it we could establish the value of one part - this we learnt is...
Rousseau’s animals
Year 4 have been looking very closely at the painting, Surprised by Henri Rousseau. They went to see it in the National Gallery, and were impressed by the colours and all of the detail you can see in the work if you look closely. Did you know Rousseau never actually...
Exploring line and tone
Delaunay Class explored line and tone in art this week. They looked closely at plants, and drew what they could see using line. Combining pencil, charcoal, pen and water, they then explored tone - noticing the light and dark areas of the plants in front of them. At...
Get digging.
Children from Hokusai Class had a great time yesterday in Forest School planting bulbs ready for spring. We noticed that they looked a lot like onions and could see that the shoot would grow out the top. Practising our safe tool use, we dug the holes carefully with...
PE: dancing, dribbling and dodging
This term all children are learning sport-based skills and dance and movement skills in their PE lessons. Year 1 and 2 are learning how to control, dribble and pass a ball successfully with their feet. They learnt that control means to keep the ball close to you using...
Clap the rhythm
We were learning about rhythm in music today. Rhythm is a pattern of long and short sounds. We learnt to clap 2 different songs with different rhythms. Here was our favourite: "Engine Engine Number Nine" https://youtu.be/eVCYjgtjXDQ
New Year New Learning
By Sara and Fabiha This week in geography we learnt about the 3 forces during World War 2 ( allied forces, axis forces and neutral forces) Allied forces fought alongside Great Britain where as Axis forces fought along Germany. However neutral forces stayed safe and...
The Selfish Giant
We have been reading a new story this week in year 5: The Selfish Giant! In the story, some children are enjoying a beautiful garden, when the giant comes home and spoils their fun. He does not want to share his garden so he banishes them, builds a wall and puts up a...
Brilliant Bookworms: Reading together…
We have every opportunity for reading in our class and today, I saw these four boys enjoying an animal book. Great sharing and talking! https://youtube.com/shorts/EzYhUe1DBdY?feature=share https://youtube.com/shorts/PXeLuHn7seM?feature=share...