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This week, Year 4 put on an amazing performance for their assembly about rocks and fossils. A super well done everyone!
We have had a perfect pirate week in Reception! Lots of pirate creations such as hats, maps, ships and so much more. Amazing combining of groups, reading, building and spelling words and reading our everyday words. Our sentence writing is developing as well as our independence ☠️⚓️⭐️❤️
1 Red have fully embraced Rockstar day, they have brought rockstar characters to life with their wonderful rockstar singing and dancing. I am sure you agree they all look amazing!
What a great morning we had this morning! This morning we had our parents and carers join us for a maths workshop. We introduced them to some of the methods that we used for multiplication and division, we showed them how we can play with numbers using different methods and sang a couple of our favourite multiplication songs.
As part of our Land Ahoy theme we have been looking at different types of boats and how they move. We looked at pushing and pulling and decided that we would design and build a transport for our boat which would then be used to launch our boat successfully into the water. We used a range of materials and had great fun designing and redesigning our prototypes. We realised that some ideas may sound good but when we tried them they did not work so we had to work as a team to problem solve and complete our mission.
1 Red had a very successful Math’s workshop today. We showed our parents/carers how to explore and play with Math’s indoors and out. The children had great fun teaching their adults different methods of recording. Everyone had a great time getting stuck into all things Math’s
Today in Maths the children have been using their oracy skills to explain how to solve problems using their knowledge of multiplication.
2 Red were given a design brief to use their scientific thinking to plan and make a boat transporter for it to travel on land.
After doing some research and watching boat launches, they worked in teams to try out and problem solve their design ideas.
They considered push and pull forces, how things move, as well as using prior and wider knowledge about boats, movement and floating.
We have been looking at the impressionist painter Claude Monet. We loved his use of colour and shades in ‘The Waves’. We made a graduated colour chart to show the different blues we could make and then we tried our best to recreate the famous picture. 
In 1 Red today we arrived to a school receiving a letter that had been sent by ‘The Jolly Rodgers’. They told us in the letter that they had snuck into our classroom at the weekend and stole Mrs Sikka’s prize box. They told us that the only way we could get it back was to write letters to them and tell them why they deserved it back and how it would make them feel. The children were horrified that the box had been stolen and went looking around the classroom for clues. Many of the children took it upon themselves to write to ‘The Jolly Rodgers’ asking for their box back. Watch this space to see if it returns!
