This half term our children have completed some amazing homework, showing a real commitment to their own learning. Well done year 4!
Today the children re-enacted what life was like in the early days of The Benin Kingdom. They each formed villages and then traded items with other villages in the class. By trading, the children realised that by pooling resources with other villagers, they were able to prosper. This is how the Benin Kingdom was formed.
This week Reception have been all things pumpkin as we have been using the story Pumpkin Soup in English . We investigated, counted, painted and created so much pumpkin themed learning! We also talked about Remembrance Day and created poppies for our tree⭐️❤️⭐️
We have had a great time at our Halloween disco. We all looked scarily good too!
A fabulous Halloween spooktacular week in Reception! Potions, spells, magical moments and amazing creativity
Michael Jordan
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something, but I can’t accept not trying”
We have started our new Learning Means The World theme ‘Zero to Hero’ and one of the first people we have looked at is Michael Jordan. We found out that he was turned away from basketball but because he loved the sport he kept trying and trying until he was successful. We then decided that we needed to be a bit like Michael and keep trying our best. We then went outside and tried to shhot some hoops. We found that we got better the more we practiced. We then found out that Nike thought he was that inspirational that they named some sports shoes after him! We decided to design our own ‘Air Jordan’s’.
1 Red had the wonderful opportunity to visit Beamish museum for their school trip. The were fabulous ambassadors for the school who were impeccably well behaved and were extremally excited and enthusiastic to learn about things that happened many years before they were born. They visited the dentist, farm, cottages where people lived and found out how different the houses were to where they live. They looked at old electrical equipment, visited the bank, the estate agents and they even got to see how sweets were made, but the best part of the visit was being able to sit as part of an infant school class, however many children said they preferred Mrs Sikka’s class and the Ma’am at Beamish school was very strict. We did lots of walking in the warm sun and everyone was so happy not one of them complained. They are an absolute credit to the school.
As part of our Learning Means The World Theme, ‘Powhatten People’, we found out that Pochahontas attended a masquerade ball and had to learn how to dance. This was very different from the customs she was used to in her tribe. We made our own masquerade masks and learned how to do a dance typical for that era.
7 Blue had an amazing time at Jarrow Hall this week. We took part in 2 workshops to learn all about Anglo Saxon life. We really enjoyed learning about the animals on the farm and spinning wool to make textiles but our favourite part of the day was listening to the story of ‘Beowulf’ sitting around the fire in the Anglo Saxon great Hall. We ended the day having fun in the park.
This week year 4 were lucky enough to visit Jarrow Hall, which links in with our new theme “Saxon King”.
We completed 3 exciting workshops, learning lots of different things about Anglo Saxon life and what this would have been like. We had a go at making our own wool to create fabric for clothing and had a competition on which group could spin the longest piece.
It was then time to carry out an immersive drama experience, re-enacting what crime and punishment was like during Anglo Saxon times. The children loved taking on their roles as villagers, judges and witness’… They enjoyed handing out the sentences even more!
Finally, after lunch we enjoyed a walk through the farm and Anglo Saxon replica village and were lucky enough to enjoy the story of “Beowulf” by a roaring fire inside a great Saxon hall. We even had time to enjoy the sunshine in the park on site!
We were very impressed with the behaviour and maturity of our year 4 children and the amazing questions they asked throughout the day.
