Tag Archives: Active learning

Happy Holidays

October 11, 2019 Mrs Smith Leave a comment

That’s been a fast term!

What have P5/6 been up to on their final day of term? They all worked on grammar activities first thing before heading out to the multicourt for class P.E. where we scored a record number of frisbee goals! Then we all worked on our own personal learning goals before lunch so all different types of activities were going on at the same time. The afternoon saw us gather together to have a whole school photo to celebrate our 50 years and this was followed by a great JRSO assembly. Happy holidays everyone and here’s hoping this weather holds!

It was logic maths problems for Kelsi and Ava.

After working on fixed and growth mindset activities, Evie worked on her inclusion poster.

Koll timed how long it took him to solve the times tables jigsaw.

Magnus and Kathryn wanted concentration tasks so they played the classic, “Mastermind” game.

Amy and Robbie used a spelling game to revise plural spellings.

We wrote the famous pangram, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”

Fiona taking advantage of the fine day to practise her joined writing outside!

Then it was back inside to create our own pangram sentence in joined script.

Booby is loving practising his joined writing just now. Keep up the good work!

A superb assembly from our JRSO’s. Remember to get your competition entries in first week back.

Crounders…

May 16, 2019 Mrs Wells Leave a comment

The current favourite game to play in class PE is “Crounders” (a combination of rounders and cricket). The pupils have had so much fun playing it for the last couple of weeks, I finally managed to take some photographs to share with you…

Health and Wellbeing

May 13, 2019 Mrs Wells Leave a comment

Today in our Health and wellbeing we started to discuss the changes we and our body make in preparation for parenthood.

There was a lot of discussion around the different types of relationship we will face throughout our life. Sharing thoughts for how these relationships can sometimes be good and sometimes not, yet it is how we face these that will help to mould the person we become in the future.

The class split into groups and discussed the important decisions that we must make before (in adulthood) a couple decides to have a baby. This was a great exercise that proved to be much trickier for some than they expected as there was no right or wrong answer.

We had some good discussions over what was perceived to be right and not in the types of relationships and environments in which we could raise a family. It was lovely to hear that the pupils had a very open mind to all of the questions asked and their main concern was that a family was loved and cared for as this was the ideal environment for a family to flourish.

Rocket launch day!!

May 7, 2019 Mrs Wells 2 Comments

We’ve had a super morning today launching our bottle rockets at the sports pitch!

The pupils have been using our learning on forces – notably friction, air resistance and thrust – to try and adjust their own bottles to build the best rocket design possible. There have been some variations in style and we have all been looking forward to the day when we finally got to test them out…

We set a challenge to see which group could get their rocket to fly the furthest.

Becca and Hannah were the winners with a magnificent 24metres!

Once all of the groups had launched their rockets for distance the ones who struggled with coverage were given the chance to “take to the sky”.

It was a lovely, slightly chilly, morning and a fantastic way to extend our learning outside the classroom. I hope the pupils enjoyed the activity as much as I did – though they did work me hard with the hand pump and I did get a little wet a few times …

Our changing body

April 30, 2019 Mrs Wells Leave a comment

In Health and Well-being our new focus is on our changing bodies.

With this being a sensitive subject for the class it has been encouraging to see and hear some good group discussions relating to self image and areas that can cause us embarrassment.

Engineers in the making

March 29, 2019 Mrs Wells Leave a comment

This term we have been exploring forces. Using this knowledge and understanding we spent the morning designing and constructing our own bottle rockets.

The pupils were working in pairs to design a rocket that they thought would be aerodynamic and light, but withstand enough pressure to create optimum thrust (and distance) for launch day.

We are looking forward to finishing the project at the beginning of the next term and seeing who’s rocket performed the best on launch day!

French in the sunshine

March 18, 2019 Mrs Wells Leave a comment

Today we took advantage of the beautiful weather and used the multicourt to cement our recent French learning. The pupils competed in a game of dictation.

They had to run to the opposite side of the court to read a French phrase, try to memorise it and repeat to their awaiting team members – correct spelling and pronunciation was key as they later found when peer assessing their efforts in class.

The pupils really enjoyed the activity and are looking forward to playing it again in the future – next time some will focus on the attention to detail and not just the speed.

Investigating shadows

March 13, 2019 Mrs Wells Leave a comment

Pouncing on the brief spell of sunshine this afternoon Miss Budge took P5/6 outside to investigate shadows.

Working in pairs the pupils drew around each other to show the shadows that were created on the playground.

Balloon rockets

February 28, 2019 Mrs Wells 1 Comment

This afternoon we have been building on our understanding of forces. We began the afternoon with discussions over what forces are and how they are used to propel rockets to space. We also looked at the impact friction, air and water resistance have on movement of objects.

These discussions then created more interest on rocket launches, with questions of how is a rocket launched and what happens when it goes wrong? We watched a few video clips to gain a better understanding.

After this, it was our chance to put some of this learning into action with investigations into how size and material (friction) impact on the distance a balloon rocket travels along a “track”.

This will form the foundations for further understanding and applications of our forces investigations.

Paper bridges

February 14, 2019 Mrs Wells Leave a comment

This morning we worked in pairs to see how strong we could make a bridge using only paper …

We investigated how a simple activity of adding folds or additional support structures could greatly increase the mass that one piece of paper could support.

Some then explored how this differed if we used card instead of paper.