Each month we choose a learning area to pick examples of great work from. Here you can see some of the excellent work our children have produced.
P4 and P5 have been learning lots of French words during their French classes with Mrs Calderwood. They also looked at a very famous French artist, Henri Matisse 1869 - 1954. After 1930, when ill health prevented him from painting, he created an important body of work in the medium of cut paper collage - art using scissors. The P4 and P5 created their own artwork in the style of Henri Matisse. I think you will agree their pictures are really impressive.
In literacy this term, P6 and P7 are reading and studying poetry. They have been looking at different techniques that poets use when writing. They then wrote their own poems about ‘Snow’, using some brilliant similes and metaphors.
During their Spain topic, P6 and P7 found out about the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. Picasso used a style of art called cubism, which uses lots of shapes and bold colours to create pictures. P6/7 created their own cubist style portraits, which really make you think about what is going on in the picture.
In their Outdoor Play, P1 and P2 were ‘investigating their surroundings’
They discovered lots of mini beasts around the bug hotel. They also did some pretend cooking, spying, building and exercising.
P1 and P2 have started their new ‘World Around Us’ topic - ‘Look at Me’. During Outdoor Play, the children were given a challenge:-
Work together in a team to make a model of the human body.
As you can see they did a fantastic job. and made some great models. They used leaves to make the features on the face. Izabelle found a really interesting skeleton leaf.
P6/7 have been working on equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages. They then used Izak 9 blocks to build a ‘Great Wall of Equivalence’.
P1 and P2 have been learning lots of interesting things about ‘Toys’, in their World Around Us topic this half term.
In Outdoor Play, they were looking at ‘Forces and Energy’. They used various ramps and toy vehicles to carry out experiments. After carrying out lots of experiments, they used their thinking skills to answer these questions
How can we make the truck travel further?
What happens when the ramp is higher?
Does every vehicle travel the same distance?
Mrs Calderwood read the story ‘Where’s My Teddy?’ by Jez Alborough. In the story the teddy gets lost in the wood. P1 and P2 then did some experiments to see what teddy could use to keep him dry, if it rained.
They looked at four types of material
plastic
wood
fabric
paper
Before each experiment the children predicted what the result would be with either a thumbs up or thumbs down.
In their Outdoor Play session today, the P1 and P2 children searched for sticks outside. They used their sticks to carry out various measuring activities.
P1 - find a stick that is longer than your shoe and one that is shorter than your shoe.
P2 arrange the sticks, shortest to longest.
Mrs Calderwood read the story, Stick Man by Julia Donaldson. The children had to decide what their stick might be - a pencil, a walking stick, a drumstick, a wand, a microphone. They drew these in the air.
Afterwards they chose a stick to make into a Stick Man. Have a look at their lovely Stick Man display.
P1 and P2 have been looking at the story ‘The Little Red Hen’. They used their thinking skills to design and then build a trolley to help the hen take her wheat to the mill. I think you will agree they made some super trolleys.
Our P1 children have been learning to count, and write numbers. They have been learning number 3 this week. They made sets of 3 and they found lots of ‘3’s’ around their classroom.
P6 and P7 really enjoyed learning about the Vikings in their World Around Us topic this term. They wrote Viking Sagas, made Runes Tiles, presented Powerpoints and even constructed their own Viking Longships.
In their Outdoor Play session, P1 and P2 were looking for lots of autumn treasures around the school grounds. They found beech nuts, pine cones, interesting leaves and feathers. The children took turns to describe their autumn treasures to the rest of the class. They then used these treasures to make imprints in clay.
In World Around Us, P5, 6 and 7 are learning all about the Vikings. As part of their project they are going to use the computer game ‘Minecraft’, to build their own computer Viking Longships. As an introduction to this, they were given a blueprint of how to make a longboat. They used these blueprints to make longboats from ‘Multilink’. From the photos you will see that they managed to build some very good 2D and 3D models.
P4 and P5 have been enjoying STEM Challenges in their Thursday afternoon class with Miss Richmond. This week their challenge was to:-
‘Build a free standing tower with a marshmallow on the top, using only spaghetti, masking tape, string and one marshmallow’
The children had 10 minutes planning time in their groups, and then 25 minutes to build their towers. This challenge developed their skills in ‘Thinking Skills’ and ‘Personal Capabilities’ as they worked on problem solving, working with others as a group, communication and decision making. Each group completed the challenge and there were some very tense moments towards the end, as the marshmallow was added to the tower.
In their topic work, P1 and P2 are learning about how the weather affects people and animals. This week we read a story called ‘Itchy Bear’, and another one called ‘Squirrel’s Autumn Search’.
Theses stories made us think about real animals in the wild, and how they use Autumn time to prepare for Winter.
In Outdoor Play the children
gathered berries and pine cones for the squirrel.
made homes using building blocks.
explored the garden area for signs of Autumn.
In the playroom the children have been -
Making a cave for Itchy Bear
Using their Autumn Shop
Our P2 children have been working on their numbers from 10 - 20. They used ‘Numicon’ to build the numbers. ‘Numicon encourages children to explore maths using structured imagery and apparatus.’ They then used their magnetic numbers to make the numbers 10 - 20
Have a look at the P5 posters following the visit from R N L I
P1 and P2 have been enjoying their afternoon sessions in the playroom. Their topic is ‘The Countryside’ and the playroom has been set up in different countryside zones.
Milk ‘At the dairy’ Milk goes from farm to dairy to shop
Play Dough - making insects
Farm play
