Transported back in time
Year 4 thoroughly enjoyed a trip to two museums in Hull today.
Streetlife Museum of Transport
We all climbed aboard at the Streetlife Museum of Transport and enjoyed all the sights, sounds and smells of the past. There are over 200 years of transport history on display. The children walked down a 1940s high street, boarded a tram and enjoyed the pleasures of a carriage ride. Our big topic ‘Transport‘ starts next week so today’s trip was a great introduction to transportation through the ages. Enjoy our photos with your child. Question them about the visit.
From ‘bone shaking’ early bicycles to horse drawn carriages fit for royalty, the museum was packed with exhibits from various periods of time.
Hull and East Riding Museum
In this museum, we entered a world where 235 million years of history has been brought to life. From majestic mammoths to Saxon invaders, Year 4 travelled through history up to modern Britain. Walking through an Iron Age village, entering a Roman bath house and looking at the stunning mosaics were just a few of the displays to stop and study. We discovered a mysterious crew of wooden warriors and saw some medieval treasures!
How would you solve it?
In Maths, we’re discussing when we need to use written methods to solve a calculation, when we can solve it mentally and when we might make some jottings to help us.
We sorted some calculations according to how we’d solve them. Discuss them at home and see how different people in the family would solve these calculations in different ways. Are any ways you discuss better than another?
Where in the World
As a part of our ‘Where in the World’ topic, Year One have loved using maps to name and locate the four countries of the United Kingdom. The children also used the maps to name some towns and cities in the UK.
Homework Review
Year 6’s first piece of Creative homework was great. We enjoyed sharing what we’d created with our table before taking a look around the whole class at everybody’s.
Here are a few of our favourites:
Parent partnership workshop
Our first workshop will be held on Thursday at 2.15 and 6.00.
We recognise that as parents you are your child’s first and most enduring educator. We value the contribution you make in your child’s learning journey and encourage you to share your unique knowledge of your child.
This helps us to establish an interesting and stimulating learning environment and activities for each child.
Our workshop will provide you with information to help you support your child at home and an insight into the teaching and learning that takes place over the Reception year.
We hope to see you all there.
Super swimming start
After a lot of anticipation and excitement, Year 3 have started their swimming lessons. The class thoroughly enjoyed their first lesson.
In our topic lessons, we’ve been learning the seven continents of the world, how to use an atlas and when/why people would choose to use a map rather than an atlas. We’ve begun our topic art project by sketching the continents, paying particular attention to the outline and shape to each.
In maths, we’ve continued to learn about place value. Children have been using counters to play game and test their partner’s knowledge. We’ve been practising reading these representations of three digit numbers and then saying these numbers out loud.
We’ve also been outside during maths to practise doubling and halving.
During our homework review, on Thursday, the class shared their creative pieces with each other. We’ve been seriously impressed with the level of creativity the class has shown. Well done, Year 3!
Our first week
What a great start to Reception!
The children have been busy making new friends and exploring their classroom. We’ve been really impressed with their enthusiasm, confidence and attitude to learning.
Looking forward to a great year!
What is the United Kingdom?
We’ve used atlases, and globes to work out which countries make up the United Kingdom. We then located the capital cities of each country.
List writing
This morning we’ve been writing lists using commas. Children had to create the list on slips of paper (including punctuation).
Living and Learning: ready and respond
This week, we’re focusing on being ready to learn and responding to feedback. Year 6 show they’re ready to learn by having empty hands, writing their date and learning objective quickly (but neatly), asking questions, and by ensuring they have everything they need in their trays.
We’ve talked a lot this week about responding to feedback and knowing what feedback is:
- marking in books
- requests made at home
- tips during football training
- verbal praise during a piano lesson
As the children had their books marked all week, we looked at how well we were responding to the feedback in them. Where we’d not responded to feedback, we recognised that this was going to mean that we were missing out on opportunities to learn from our mistakes or on receiving positive comments so that we know what to continue doing well.
As a class, we decided we were probably better as responding to feedback at home or at a club than at school. Discuss feedback with your child at home:
- What feedback do you give them?
- Which is positive?
- Which is negative?
- How do they respond to it?
- Is this the best response?