Expert visitor workshop with Phil Sheppard

8th January 2025Mrs Haycock

Everyone absolutely loved our expert visitor, Phil Sheppard, who came to school to tell us more about our key text: The Iron Man, written by Ted Hughes. Not only did we learn more about the author and the book, but we were also told about The Mexborough Iron Man Trail. This wasn’t all…he also taught us all how to drawn our own Iron Man. We are so proud of the beautiful work we produced!

Who’d have thought it’d be so easy to draw The Iron Man? Thank you, Phil, for coming. We all learnt so much and are going to design our own robots using the skills you taught us later this week!

Mrs Haycock

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Active Scientific Learning in Year 3

8th January 2025Mrs Haycock

Year 3 have played food chain tag today. Some of us pretended to be grass, which was eaten by those of us who were deer. Then in turn, the deer were eaten by the wolves. Seeing the visual effect of this food chain made us realise that the wolves were the apex predators in this example. The children had fun, got active and learnt lots all at the same time.

Mrs Haycock

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Marvellous manipulatives!

8th January 2025Mrs Haycock

In Year 3, we have been using manipulatives to deepen our understanding of equal grouping as our first step into Multiplication and division. Children have successfully used cubes to represent requests such as 6 equal groups of 5 and 5 equal groups of 6, making links that they have the same total value. Well done everyone, you worked really hard; used the cubes to get smart; were kind to others by helping out when needed; and produced some beautiful work too! Thank you Year 3…you rock!

Mrs Haycock

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See How Things Grow – Hook Week

8th January 2025Joshua Meade

In hook week so far the children have been enjoying exploring our provision areas and learning about our bodies, themselves and humans! Children have being creating body box models, giving baby baths, imaginative play in the home corner and making different body parts. #LovePlover

Welcome Back!

8th January 2025Mr Pickering

It has been brilliant to see all of the children back after the break. They are all energised and excited to get into our new Expedition. This term, we are asking ourselves ‘How can I be the healthiest version of me?’ 2P started by exploring our new English text ‘Supertato’. We used inference skills to predict what the story might be about. We then read the story and created our own superhero masks. In Expedition, we learnt a performance song all about bananas. The video is below for you to enjoy! We can’t wait to do our Bushtucker trial later in the week!

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Toddler Visit

8th January 2025Joshua Meade

Today, we had the cutest visitor ever! Our children loved comparing and learning the difference between a baby and a toddler. They asked some fab questions to find out what our toddler Gracie can and can’t do. Thank you to Beth and Gracie, you brought so much joy to everyone in EYFS this morning! #LovePlover

We are building our art techniques in 6B

8th January 2025Miss Blackham

6B have inspired by the artist ‘Giulio Campagnola’ who invented the stippling technique to improve his variations of tone. The children have applied stippling to their sketches of Ben Parkinson. I can’t wait to see their final drafts!

-Miss Blackham

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Baby Visit

8th January 2025Joshua Meade

It was lovely having our special visitor yesterday! The children were in awe at Baby Yaya and asked some brilliant questions about what a baby needs. #LovePlover

Hooking LKS2 into What makes us human?

6th January 2025Mrs Graves

Happy New Year!

We have had a great start to our new expedition – “The Power of Life – what makes us human?”

It was great to see all costumes in the “dress-up as a robot’, especially all the time and effort that had gone into the outfits.

We spent the morning in our crews in mini workshops to give us a flavour of some of the learning we are going to be doing this term. Children had to workout the guiding question using clues given at the end of each workshop.

Children enjoyed exploring the internal organs, skeleton and muscles using AI and interactive games. They had a go at classifying robots, made electronic circuits, created robots and had fun with jigsaws.

As reward for solving the puzzle and in preparation for Friday’s learning, we spent the afternoon watching the film Robots.

Mrs Graves and Miss Vine

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