Outdoor Adventurous Activities: THURSTON 2023

9th March 2023C Campbell

Year 6 are tingling with anticipation as we begin the final countdown to setting off to Thurston this year. The children will be spending a week in the beautiful Lake District National Park, on the shores of Coniston Water. Thurston offers children a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to discover skills and interests they never knew they had, from fell-walking to canoeing, abseiling to ghyll-scrambling and rock climbing to jetty-jumping! Our children will no doubt make very best of their time there and return with wonderful memories, increased confidence and turbo-charged resilience to carry forward into secondary school. Good luck everyone and most importantly, enjoy the flapjack! Well done also to Keavy and Evie in 6 Blue who have created a celebratory sketch of the mountains and lakes.

Hockey

9th March 2023s begum

In PE this half term, Year 4 are learning how to play hockey. This week, they have been practising their dribbling, passing and stopping skills with their partners.

A tasty treat !

9th March 2023Miss L Robinson

After reading ‘The tiger who came to tea’ in English, we decided to invite a different type of animal for tea. We thought about who to invite and made a list of things that we could have for tea. One of the suggestions was a jam sandwich. The children read and followed a set of instructions to help them make their own jam sandwiches. We wrote our own set of  instructions for others to follow.  The children said it was the best English lesson ever!

6 Blue’s ‘Place the Pen’ PE Challenge!

9th March 2023C Campbell

6 Blue have been enjoying our short orienteering and problem-solving PE unit so far this half-term. The wintry weather forced us inside today, so we completed the next team challenge which was ‘Place the Pen!’ Working in small groups, the children had to devise a strategy to work together in order to carefully place a felt-tip pen as far as possible away from a line, without throwing or dropping it. This involved conversations about anchors, pivots and transfer of weight. The most successful teams soon discovered that it was more effective to place the shortest team member at the front of the group. Well done to Jack’s team who placed a perfectly-balanced pen at a distance of 1.29m!

 

 

Year 1 know all about plants!

9th March 2023L Chisholm

In our theme of Unity In The Community we have been looking at our local area and discussing what we can see around us daily.  The children realised that their area has lots of trees and plants and we discussed what these plants needed to grow.  We then planted our own Lima bean and we can’t wait to see if we get beans from it.  We then labelled a plant and if  you ask us,

we can tell you the difference between an Evergreen tree and a Deciduous tree (Yes we are that clever!)

Levers and Mechanisms in DT

9th March 2023L Davison

In DT this week, the children have been making a congratulations card which had to have a moveable part. The children learned how to use split pins to make a pivot for a lever. They had to complete a full design process, making several initial designs, a final design, all the while evaluating and improving their work.

Then the children had to make their card, they had to constantly measure and adjust their designs to ensure that they were successful. Their hard work has really paid off.

2 Red’s There’s An Alien In Your Book!

5th March 2023L Phillips

2 Red had a fantastic day celebrating World Book Day!

Using ‘There’s An Alien In Your Book!’ by Tom Fletcher we completed very creative tasks such as…

  • moulding our own aliens to match the mystery description using modelling clay,
  • creating our very own game of rhyming snap using creatures from our world,
  • designing a home, family and friends for the alien
  • and finally inventing and making a space ship to help our alien to return home.

Our day ended with some out of this world science!

Year 1 were out of this world!

3rd March 2023L Chisholm

Year 1 loved our theme of ‘Out Of This World’ on world book day.  They came dressed as all manner of intergalactic oddities.  We based our activities around the book, ‘There’s an alien in your book’ by Tom Fletcher. We firstly created our own alien using playdough and thought of its name, which planet it came from and what it likes to eat (I’m a little scared by how many aliens are out there who want to eat Teachers!).  We then built a rocket to take our aliens back to their home planet (phew).  In the afternoon we enjoyed learning about electricity and gas reactions with a Scientist.  We found out that our bodies conduct electricity and if we hold hands we become a circuit.  We also found out that trapped gas eventually has to be released and we used this knowledge to blast off some rockets.  We have had a great day and can’t wait until next year!