Free tennis weekend
This weekend, 21st and 22nd July, sees free tennis activities for all ages and abilities at David Lloyd to celebrate Great British Tennis Weekend.
The winning team
At the start of the World Cup, all the children selected, at random, a country to represent throughout the competition.
Today, we had our winner after France’s win against Croatia in the World Cup final.
Félicitations!
Dances from around the world
This morning, Year 2 learnt two dances from different countries that took part in the world cup. Can you guess the countries from their flags?
There was even chance for a bit of free style dancing at the end of the session too!
World Cup dancing
As the World Cup comes to an end so does our topic.
Tomorrow, we welcome Flexdance to deliver two dance workshops each to Year 1 and 2.
The dance workshops will have a cultural dance focus, representing a different country who have taken part in the World Cup. We’re looking forward to experiencing some new dance genre from Brazil, Nigeria, Japan and Spain.
This is a change to our normal PE day so please ensure your child has their PE kit in school and earrings are removed.
Pyramids
The Ancient Egyptian pyramids are some of the most impressive structures built by humans in ancient times. Many of the pyramids still survive today for us to see and explore.
Why were the pyramids built?
The pyramids were built as burial places and monuments to the Pharaohs. As part of their religion, the Egyptians believed that the Pharaoh needed certain things to succeed in the afterlife. Deep inside the pyramid the Pharaoh would be buried with all sorts of items and treasure that he may need to survive in the afterlife.
Yesterday, Year 4 created their very own pyramids. Using a 2D net of the shape, the class decorated the inside and outside of the pyramids. The children thought about items that they would want or need in the afterlife. These were placed inside the structure.
When complete, work began on making the 2D shape into a 3D shape.
“This is a square based pyramid ,” commented Alexander.
We now have our very own desert complete with pyramids on the classroom floor.
Feel free to pop in and have a look.
Poetry
In our English lesson today, we matched different forms of poetry to their definitions.
We had to read really carefully to match them.
Tinkering
This afternoon, children were tasked with creating a football kicking device (that’s its technical name). They had to get a small ball to roll as far as possible without actually touching it using things around the classroom.
They used DT, Science and Living and Learning skills to create and test their device before evaluating and improving it.
Caterpillar kebabs
In Reception, we’ve been learning ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. Feeling inspired by this story, we made some fruity caterpillar kebabs. The children loved following a recipe and describing the appearance and smell of the fruit. They enjoyed eating it even more! We used the claw and bridge technique to chop our fruit. Why not make one at home so that your child can practise their chopping skills.
I can make healthy choices.
We had some brilliant homework submissions this week for our I can make healthy choices theme.
From acrostic poems…
…to good vs bad choices…
…posters…
…to Snacks and Ladders (brilliant title)…
…to interactive Velcro games…
…and lollipop recreations of sports day.
Science – observation over time – day 17
During health week, we started an experiment investigating the effect that different drinks have on our teeth. However, instead of using real teeth, we used eggs.
We submerged the eggs in five different drinks: water, milk, Ribena, Red Bull and Coca Cola.
We removed the eggs after four days to see how they had changed.
Day 10
Day 17
