In our Thursday workshop, we are creative in our
literacy. Children can approach the task with innovation and expand their analytical skills. The challenge was to create a car seat for our baby dragon from our class novel. We had a super range of creations from 3D models using junk materials, Lego, scratch and Adobe. Everyone was engaged and had lots of fun.
This week we are working on lots of place value experiences through written tasks, interactive games and Lego challenge activities. We also continued our building, thinking classroom lesson today where there was lots of great mathematical discourse and everyone was working collaboratively.
Every morning we split up into our literacy and maths workshop groups. In each group, pupils can focus on the outcomes and skills required at their individual levels. This week we are reading a class text called, The Watchers. We started off skimming and scanning the text for main ideas and this week after reading a piece of description, we then created a Diorama to reflect one of the first scenes in the story.
PE highlights from last week.
Today we had our annual beach day trip at Aberdour! The children’s faces lit up as we reached the beach and felt the sand on their skin, it was amazing to see. Lots of learning and outdoor coastal play where the children explored nature, paddled in the sea, looked out for marine wildlife in rock pools and built sand structures and sand art with shells and stones. Everyone had the best day through hands on exploration and lots of fun memories were made with our friends.
“No one will protect what they don’t care about; and no one will care about what they have never experienced.”
Sir David Attenborough
Today we completed our recognition chart ready for the new term. Everyone has had a super few days back in school, so instead of hot chocolate rewards, we celebrated this with a Fab ice lolly!
Today we started to think about our new class charter, learning why children have rights and what the UNCRC is. We had a super discussion led by the upper school group, explaining rights and why the UN created these children’s rights. We finished by writing or drawing our ideas on a post it about what rights we know and thinking about one thing children around the world shouldn’t have to face.
