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Spring 1
This week we celebrated our Woodbridge students who showed pride in their learning and also the amazing performers during our TT rockstars day last Friday.
Spring 1 - Done! Ended on an absolute high with a visit from the history event on Monday during this day we created water wheels learnt about Florence Nightingale practice our weaving skills and learnt about Euripides and his tunnel building. In history, we explored the story of Troy and the Trojan horse and retold the events through drama. And in maths we concluded our chapter on perimeter, ending the week designing our own repetition games within scratch. We have all earned a restful week off for February half term and look forward to getting stuck in to Spring 2.
Well done to our pride winners this week. Representing the Rabbits wonderfully.
Week 5 of our Spring term! We began the week learning more about the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece. We played a board game in teams and had to find answers to questions about that God or goddess to collect points. We took our science learning outdoors, using our skills of observation to record a local habitat including what plants we could see or any animals or insects and described the current weather conditions. We will then revisit the same location in five months to assess the effect of seasonality on habitats. During number day on Friday we enjoy creating our ‘Petal Products’ revising our times tables with a bonus session of TT Rockstars in the afternoon to build up our number skills and our love of numbers.
Week 4 of this term has been amazing! We honed our bench ball skills in PE and explored the Ancient Greeks by studying pottery. On Wednesday we were lucky enough to be visited by Zack George, the Gladiator known as Steel, to talk to us about positive life choices. We also finished our Greek theatre masks, using striking blue paint and then white to highlight their facial features.
Week 4 we celebrate the creativity of these 3 rabbits, and our aspiration winner from a couple of week ago, well done team!
Celebrating our very respectful rabbits this week.
Week 3 and we went Greek crazy! We made prototype Greek mask, then tested materials to build up the facial features. Based on these two activities we designed our Greek masks and then finally created our masks and covered them in paper mache! We also completed our independent writes on our character descriptions of our own Greek god or goddess. In Science, we created classification keys to identify animal features. In Maths, we continued our learning journey into multiplication and division! We are all ready for a rest this weekend!
Week 2 of our Spring term, we worked on multiplication in Math using lots of resources to help us understand the concept. In Art, we explored the origins of Greek theatre, the children loved learning why masks were used, that only men acted in the theatre and that unfortunately, there are no surviving original Greek masks from that time period! We then explored 4 masks and annotated them, to give us ideas for creating our own masks. In Computing, we learned how to read code with loops and then make modifications to extend or reduce the loop. They listened really well in this lesson and we all came out of it feeling very successful!
Start of the New Year and lots of new topics to explore! We have started invasion games in PE, designing out our Greek god in English to enable us to write really interesting and descriptive character descriptions. In Science we learned how to classify living things by their features. In DT, we tasted foods commonly enjoyed by the Ancient Greeks, the rabbits really enjoyed the afternoon feast we had. We ending the week using the Scratch programme to create loops to draw different shapes. Really pleased to be back with the children this week, can’t wait for next weeks learning
