Topic: art sculptures
Year 3 finished of the half term with creating their sculptures using the skills they’ve practised.
They’re abstract sculptures because they’re made up of shape, line and colour. They look fantastic and the children were very independent when creating them.
Here are some photos:
Help at home by discussing what type of colours they used.
Winter Wonderland Cards and 2026 Calendars
As this term comes to a close, we have been making winter wonderland cards and 2026 calendars. SURPRISE adults at home! They have created some brilliant ones.
We hope you all have a lovely break and can’t wait to see everyone refreshed in the New Year!
Wriggly Nativity
We hope you enjoyed our production of the Wriggly Nativity. The children have worked so hard to learn lines, practice songs, dances and all the moving on and off stage. They have all done a great job!
Here are some of the cast.
Narrators
May and Joseph
Wise men
Innkeepers
Shepherds
Angels
Stars
Autumn 2: Week 7
What a busy final week we’ve had in Reception! We’re so proud of all the Reception children for their fantastic singing — they’re all shining stars. Thank you to everyone who came to watch. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.
On Monday, your child should have brought home a bag of reindeer food. The food is environmentally friendly. It is made from bird seed, porridge oats and sultanas. Don’t forget to sprinkle it outside on Christmas Eve for the hungry reindeers to enjoy.
Yesterday, we had lots of fun using the Christmas photobooth.
Things you could be doing to support learning over the Christmas holidays:
- Continue to read your eBooks together.
- Practise saying and writing the Phase 2 graphemes. Use the Little Wandle letter formation phrases to help.
- Practise reading all of the Phase 2 tricky words in your red phonics home-learning book.
- To support counting, involve your child in setting the table — How many forks? How many knives?
- To support fine motor skills, encourage your child to help an adult cut up vegetables.
- To support communication and language, make sure you have daily chats with your child. Regular interactions help to develop language skills.
Finally, we hope you have a happy and healthy break. Enjoy spending some quality time with friends and family.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all of the Reception Team!
We’re artists!
This week, Year 4 finished their Wassily Kandinsky inspired sculptures. We used our concentric circles, skewers and strips of black card to create these. They turned out incredibly – I was so impressed with how effective they looked. Here are some of your children’s creations…
Help at home: over the Christmas break, have a go at creating some Napaltjarri or Kandinsky inspired artwork. Think about line, colour, shape and composition.
Write Like a Poet Workshop
Today, Year 4 were lucky enough to have a visitor from the British Library to deliver a workshop all about poetry. It was fantastic!
We began by learning a little bit about the British Library and found out some cool facts. Did you know the British Library have a copy of every single book published in the UK?
We then learnt about MORERAPS as a tool for writing poetry.
Metaphors
Onomatopoeia
Repetition
Emotion
Rhyme
Alliteration
Personification
Similes
We wrote a class poem by each choosing an element of MORERAPS and writing one line about a dog which we then put together into one poem – it was great!
To finish, all your children had a go at writing their own poem about a topic of their choosing. They did a first draft and then once they were happy, we wrote them up neatly. They were brilliant!
Help at home: visit the British Library website (https://www.bl.uk) and explore what they have to offer.
Write like a poet – British Library
Today, Year 3 had a visitor from the British Library. We learnt a lot about the British Library like what they do, how they are different to a “normal” library and where they are based. Luckily for us, they have a base in Boston Spa!
The British Library have a copy of every single book, newspaper, magazine or even leaflet that has been published in Britain. They want to keep a record of all of these so that in years to come, people can look back and see what things were like over the years.
We read a poem – I Don’t Like Poetry by Joshua Siegel – and picked apart the vocabulary. We discussed what we liked and disliked about it. Then it was our turn to write our own poems. It can be quite tricky just to sit down and write a poem so we played lots of games to help us generate some ideas.
Some of us wrote about our day, our emotions, a hobby we like or just something random! The children really enjoyed it and were desperate to share their writing at the end.
Help at home by playing the word association game. Start with ‘apple’ and see what word the other person can think of that links to it and continue for as long as you can.
Design & Technology: Food
This week, Year 2 have been using their food preparation skills to create their latest product, a banana sandwich.
This forms part of our Design and Technology food learning which involves following a recipe to create a product each term.
First of all, we got ready to cook.
After that, we selected our type of bread.
Here are some of the skills we used to make our product.
Peeling and chopping (bridge hold and claw grip)
Spreading
Arranging toppings and sprinkling
The comments from the children when they got to eat their product were very positive!
I love it!
I’ve never had this before but I really like it.
It’s a healthy snack.
I don’t like banana but I like it in this.
I’ve never tried cinnamon before but I like it and I would have it again.
I didn’t think I’d like the cream cheese but it’s amazing.
We always evaluate our product afterwards to see how it could be changed it next time.
Well done to all the children who worked safely and sensibly with Mrs Maqbool. We will be using this learning to help with some instruction writing too.
Help at home: your child has taken this recipe home. Can they demonstrate some of their food preparation skills by making this again at home. We’ve heard that some children already have!
Food technology – tomato and lentil soup
On Monday this week, Year 5 made tomato and lentil soup! We worked in small groups to prepare the ingredients and then cook them. We made sure that we washed our hands and wore our aprons for hygiene reasons.
We used the bridge cutting method and the claw cutting method to cut up our ingredients. These methods are the safest way to cut food as they help us from hurting ourselves.
After the soup had simmered, we all had a taste and the reaction was, on the whole, very positive!
Help at home: Have your child show you the bridge and claw cutting methods. Why not try making the recipe at home? It has been sent home with your child.
Guided Reading Week 6
This is the last week we our group reading books. All books need to be read to the end by Wednesday 17th December.
Thank you.