Spring 1

English 14.3.24 today we developed our oracy skills by creating a speech to convince an audience whether Beowulf is a villain or a hero. We can’t wait to share these with you at the showcase in March.

13.2.24 Our final Micro:bit session involved use programming a micro:bit to play a game of rock, paper, scissors. We tested out which way was fairer, human or micro:bit.

Our Word of the Week is GNAW (Week 5)

Forest school 7.2.24

History 5.2.24 - today we have been using our historical enquiry skills to find out about King Alfred the Great. We used secondary sources and internet searches, using QR codes, to gather reliable information and then recorded it as a fact file. We really enjoyed presenting our findings to the class.

WEEK 4: Our Word of the Week (FUMING)

Our Word of the Week: FUMING

Definition: 'feeling, showing, or expressing great anger.'

Let’s get children excited about words! Can you use the word in everyday conversation? Can you draw a picture of it? Could you write a sentence including the word, or even a short story? Send in your contributions and earn dojos!

English 31.1.24 - today we have been learning how to include parenthesis in our writing. We have used our rainbow grammar cards to construct our sentences and then wrote our own into our books. The Hedgehogs worked so hard in this lesson.

Computing 30.1.24 we programmed Micro:bits to create a step counter. It was so fun testing them out.

Dodgeball 30.01.2024

Week 3: Our Word of the Week (FRAIL)

Our Word of the Week: FRAIL

Definition: '(of a person) weak or fragile.’

Let’s get children excited about words! Can you use the word in everyday conversation? Can you draw a picture of it? Could you write a sentence including the word, or even a short story? Send in your contributions and earn dojos!

WEEK 2: Our Word of the Week (FLINCH)

Our Word of the Week: FLINCH

Definition: 'make a quick, nervous movement as an instinctive reaction to fear, pain, or surprise.’

Let’s get children excited about words! Can you use the word in everyday conversation? Can you draw a picture of it? Could you write a sentence including the word, or even a short story? Send in your contributions and earn dojos!

Computing 16.1.24 We have been programming Micro:bits to make animations. We really enjoyed creating an algorithm which we then downloaded on to our Micro:bits.

Science 16.1.24 Today we carried out an experiment to observe the effects of air resistance on a falling object. We created a parachute and tested how the shape or size of the surface area affected how fast an object would fall. We found that the smaller the surface area the faster an object would fall because there was less air resistance.

P.E. 16.1.24 Our P.E focus this term is dodgeball. We have been practising our throwing skills and then implemented them in several dodgeball games. It was great fun!

English 15.1.24 Today, in our rainbow grammar lesson, we used our rainbow grammar cards to punctuate speech correctly. This will help us when we write our monster stories.

WEEK 1: Our Word of the Week (Flabbergasted)

Our Word of the Week: FLABBERGASTED

Definition: ‘greatly surprised or astonished.’

Let’s get children excited about words! Can you use the word in everyday conversation? Can you draw a picture of it? Could you write a sentence including the word, or even a short story? Send in your contributions and earn dojos!