Here are a selection of photos from Langdale at Thurston. Well done everyone!
As part of our Learning Means The World theme, ‘Happy to be me,’ we have been using our senses. We investigated some fruit and vegetables, then we decided to make some soup. We also talked about the Harvest festival and how we celebrate crops that are gathered from the fields and all the foods we eat. We also talked about how foods can be shared within the local community. This afternoon we tasted our soup, it was delicious! A big well done to children who weren’t sure if they would like the soup but gave it a try 🥕🧅🥦🫑
Today the children have been learning about harvest. We thought about the food that grows outside and who else might also like to eat it. We then made scarecrows to scare away the birds.
As part of our ‘Lightning Speed’ theme, Year 4 have been designing a communication device for an evil genius.
Our first task was to research all the different products on the market at the moment, then design our own product. After that, we needed to evaluate our work and make decisions on what we could improve and what was the best parts of our design.
This week in Year 4, we had lots of fun in our problem-solving lesson. We gave every letter of the alphabet a number and then had many challenges to complete such as finding the value of different words. We have put a copy of the questions on this post for you to enjoy too!
This week we have been exploring pattern. We have looked at repeating pattern using objects, colour, language and percussion. We created pattern, copied pattern and became pattern detectives looking for pattern in our environment and in stories.
Today Year 5 have taken part in an ICT workshop.
The children spent some time working with the Micro:bit (a tiny, pocket-sized computer).
Year 5 were able to use their coding skills and work their way through a range of different games, working collaboratively as a team. The children loved playing the rock, paper, scissors game and creating a musical melody with their Micro:bit.
The Micro;bit links to different curriculum areas and connects to hundreds of possible games.
Year 5 thoroughly enjoyed using these today.
and will definitely be adding one to their Christmas list!
Today, we have made our own animation props! We designed these using the scissor mechanism. We used strong card and split pins to create a moving prop that we can use in our own stop-motion animations. We were very proud of our creations and even got to show Mrs Bramley!
This week in Art, we have been learning about Johannes Gutenberg and his invention, ‘The Printing Press. Then, we created our own printing tiles with different types of lines, layers and patterns.
Reception have begun their Little Movers PE sessions.
Little Movers is an exciting Dance and Movement company that offer fun engaging classes for early years PE. The children are all engaged and are having great fun learning new skills and techniques which in turn helps them to develop their gross motor skills.
