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The Daisies class enjoyed looking closely at food logos from chocolate bars. We matched their coloured logo to a black and white logo.
We also enjoyed tasting a range of chocolates and sharing our likes and dislikes. We tried mars bar, smarties, aero, cadburys buttons, Kit Kats and kinder chocolate.
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We chose what colours we wanted to create personalised handprint dinosaurs. We thought they looked very like a stegosaurus.
The Transition class worked well today, creating these pictures of The Palace Theatre. The pupils used varied materials to highlight the iconic building
Excellent teamwork whilst sharing resources. Well done to these successful learners and effective contributors. Keep up the good work!
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The Daisies class enjoyed today’s science experiment where we tried to protect our Humpty Dumpty eggs from a big fall. We chose from a range of materials which would cushion Humpty Dumpty from a big fall. We had lego bricks, pasta, rice, cotton balls, baked beans, shredded paper and water to choose from.
We loved our science experiment and found that baked beans and rice were the only cushions that kept Humpty Dumpty safe during his fall.
Check out these fabulous pharaohs! The Beech class used mixed media to design these pictures. Do you recognise anyone?
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The Daisies class enjoyed decorating our boiled eggs today. We chose to transform them into spring chickens because we have been practising the spring chicken song ahead of our Easter Service and really enjoying it.
We painted our eggs white and used feathers and orange card to decorate some chicken features.
We are excited to go to the Kay Park tomorrow to roll our decorated eggs down a big hill.
We walked to the Kay Park and had fun rolling our decorated eggs down the big hill!
Last week was science week in school. We really loved all the different science experiments we did in class. The Transition class delivered a different experiment each day. They were all about the senses. On Monday we had sight, Tuesday we had touch, Wednesday was smell, Thursday was taste and Friday was about hearing. Our favourite was the touch experiment. We had to place our hand in to a box, have a feel around then use the photo cards to decide what we thought was inside the box. Some of the pupils were very good at guessing.
We also got very messy and created our own slime in a bowl. Most of the children were confident individuals putting their hand in the bowl, lifting their hands in the air and letting it fall through their fingers and into the bowl. We also made stomp rockets and watched them fly – some even hit the ceiling. We also used oil, water and food colouring to make our own lava lamp. We enjoyed this and it was very calming.
On Friday we had lots of Red Nose Day fun. We were confident individuals and tolerated trying the red nose on our own nose.
We decorated cakes to make them look like faces by adding edible eyes, mouth, ears and a big red nose in the centre. We also decorated a nose with red collage materials to show at our virtual corridor meeting in the afternoon.
In the afternoon we went on a red nose hunt in the garden trying to find all the different noses and mark them off on our sheet. We also joined a TEAMS meeting with the other classes to share our Red Nose Day. We enjoyed seeing our peers on the screen and interacting with them.
We also did a red food tasting session trying lots of different red foods and we circled the faces to show wether we liked or disliked each different item.
The Bluebells have enjoyed learning about the Hindi festival of Holi. The children loved that it was a colourful festival. We scrunched up lots of different coloured tissue paper and added them to a tree trunk design to make a colourful tree. Some were confident individuals and able to identify each colour the were placing on the tree.
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On Friday, the Snowdrops enjoyed lots of Red Nose Day activities.
Everyone showed interest in learning about how Red Nose Day could help those living in poverty.
The Snowdrops then enjoyed making and decorating their own headbands complete with red noses and icing and decorating their own red nose biscuits. Everyone then participated in a red nose hunt in the garden followed by a virtual disco with the other classes in our corridor where we shared our red nose crafts !
