Team R: Paper Penguins
In Year R this week, we had so much fun exploring Penguin by Polly Dunbar! The story of a little boy and his penguin friend sparked our imaginations. After reading, we got creative and made our own penguins in the workshop area using paper and craft materials. The children loved adding details like beaks and wings to their penguins. We also spent time in our penguin-themed small world, where the children enjoyed pretending with their penguin figures and fake snow! It was a great way to combine storytelling, art, and imaginative play, making learning both fun and memorable!
Team 1 / 2: Cézanne-inspired prints
Over the past few weeks the children in Team 1/2 have been Introduced to the art of Paul Cézanne. By exploring his iconic still life paintings, the children learned how Cézanne used ordinary items like fruit to change the way society viewed simple objects. To bring this concept to life, children used real fruit to make their own printing patterns. By pressing pieces of fruit onto paper with paint, they experimented with textures, colors, and shapes, creating unique designs and patterns inspired by Cézanne’s style.
Team 3 / 4: Ancient Romans
This week in their History session, Team 3/4 were researching and learning about the legacy that the Ancient Romans left in Britain.
The Year 3s used a transcript from a video they watched to research specific things the Romans brought and left behind and how these things affect them today. Things such as brick buildings with heating; straight, paved roads; shops and high streets including ‘fast food’ as well as animals such as rabbits and plants like stinging nettles (great soup!).
The Year 4s found out about the towns that the Ancient Romans established, what they were called then and now and where they are on a map. They used iPads to do this research.
All children then wrote a golden sentence or two about what Roman ‘thing’ was most impactful to them.
Team 5 / 6: An Ice-cream Investigation
Team 5/6 had an ‘ice-creamly’ good time in their Science lessons this week, investigating the statement ‘changes of state are reversible’. We lowered the temperature of milk (with some ice-cubes and human help) in order to change it into ice-cream, and then left it to warm up to see whether it would turn back into milk. Some of the ice-cream looked tastier than others, but we discovered that changes of state are indeed reversible!
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