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Nursery Weekly Blog WB 7.11.2022
Date: 10th Nov 2022 @ 11:09pm
This week we have done some fantastic learning about the traditioal rhyme Baa Baa Black Sheep. We have learned the signs to accompany the rhyme and have had great fun retelling it using masks and puppets we have made.
We have learned about where wool comes from and even shorn our own sheep!We have used our hands to print sheep and used playdough to create 3D sheep.
This week we have started our weekly reading sessions and next week the children will be selecting books to bring home and share with grown ups at home. We are excited to start children off on their journey to .... READ BELIEVE ACHIEVE !!
This week in Class 14...Week Ending 11.11.22
Date: 10th Nov 2022 @ 9:51pm
This week in Class 14 we have been writing Newspaper Reports inspired by the discovery of Anne Frank and her family in 1944. Ask you child who she was and what happened to her family.
In Maths we have been consolidating our understanding multiplication and division. We have been applying our understanding to reasoning problems.
We have had great fun in Music. We have started learning our song for the Christmas Cracker. We have been tasked with the job of creating actions for the song. We can't wait to perform it.
Date: 9th Nov 2022 @ 7:46pm
This week Class 9 had a special treat for winning the Word Millionaire for October. They have read 333,546 words as a class, beating Year 6 by just ten words. They truly are a class of readers. Here they are enjoying cookies and hot chocolate and an afternoon in the library.
Reception Blog - Week Beginning 31.10.22
Date: 6th Nov 2022 @ 3:10pm
This week in Reception the children have enjoyed learning about an Autumn book called 'Fletcher and the Falling Leaves'. The children used sentence starters such as 'It is' and 'It has' to describe to Autumn scenes. They also wrote simple sentences describing the pictures using their phonics knowledge.
In our Maths learning the children looked at the numbers 1, 2 and 3. We looked at different ways to represent the numbers by collecting objects and natural materials around the class. We also had fun playing a memory game matching the right number to right amount of spots.
In the afternoon we enjoyed looking at the celebration Halloween and Diwali. The children were busy in the creative area as they made diva lamps from salt dough and created rangoli mendhi patterns on paper. Great fun!
4.11.22 - Going to school in China
Date: 6th Nov 2022 @ 2:49pm
The children looked at the pobble picture 'Going to school in China' this week in Literacy.
They looked at the pictures and videos showing the children's journey to school. It was a very dangerous journey.
Ask your children what they noticed.
They then read words and added them to the picture, describing what they noticed. They then wrote sentences to describe the picture.
In maths, the children have been working on different games on the ipads. They have enjoyed investigating
- topmarks - https://www.topmarks.co.uk/
Date: 5th Nov 2022 @ 5:29pm
We loved venturing to the International Space Station on Monday! We began our new history topic (The Space Race) by visiting the international Space station and having a virtual call with astronaut Chris Hadfield. He taught us how to survive on the space station by keeping our hair, teeth and hands nice and clean! We cannot wait to learn more about space over the coming weeks!
Date: 4th Nov 2022 @ 5:37pm
We loved venturing to the International Space Station on Tuesday! We began our new history topic (The Space Race) by visiting the international Space station and having a virtual call with astronaut Chris Hadfield. He taught us how to survive on the space station by keeping our hair, teeth and hands nice and clean! We cannot wait to learn more about space over the coming weeks!
Nursery Weekly Blog WB 31.10.2022
Date: 4th Nov 2022 @ 5:18pm
This week in nursery we have been on a leaf hunt! We have done lots of fantastic learning about Autumn and how the seasons change. We have colour sorted leaves and created repeating patters using different coloured leaves. We have retold the story using a story tray and got on our tummies to draw the different parts of the story.
At the end of the week we learned all about Divali. we followed a little girl as she prepared for and then celebrated with her family. We thought about how our own family celebrations were the same and different to Divali. We made lanterns and were very lucky that Mrs Noor made us some Divali food to taste!
Next week we will be dooing lots of learning about Baa Baa Black Sheep!
Date: 4th Nov 2022 @ 1:18pm
This week the children have begun their learning all about the stone age.
They started their learning off with a WOW afternoon where they took part in carving tools, cave paintings, role play and even used their iPads to research the different periods of time.
Date: 3rd Nov 2022 @ 12:16pm
This week Class 8 have enjoyed our introduction to our new history topic The Stone Age. We have enjoyed soap carving, creating cave paintings and researching on our iPads about the Stone Age. In English we have been reading Stone Age Boy and have produced some fantastic pieces of writing retelling the story.
Well done Class 8, a super start to our new term!
Date: 2nd Nov 2022 @ 7:33pm
This week in Class 3 we have had so much fun reading a new story - Mr Wolf's Pancakes. As a class we made and tasted our very own pancakes as well as creating our own set of instructions as part of our Literacy learning.
Take a look at the photos below to see what we got up to :
Date: 2nd Nov 2022 @ 5:43pm
Welcome back Class 9.
We have started a new book in English this week called The Queen's Handbag. The children have enjoyed hearing the story and then bringing it to life using drama. They became the different characters and used their voice and actions to recreate the story. They used props, great facial and body expressions and lots of humour too! They have then looked at the vocabulary used and found rhyming words, definitions, synonymns and showed they understand by writing their own sentences. A great start to Autumn 2. Well done Class 9!
21.10.22 - Black history month
Date: 21st Oct 2022 @ 2:29pm
This week the children have been learning about 'Black history' month.
They joined in with the song
Listen to the song – Jack Hartman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_Xqloj9m4w
They looked at the artist - Sonia Boyce and reproduced some of her artwork
The children listened to music and joined in by playing musical insruments.
They then produced their own musical instruments
Date: 21st Oct 2022 @ 11:13am
This week in Year 6 we have had a fabulous Curriculum Week based on Black History Month. We have learned about the Windrush Generation and explored different people's experiences. We created Notting Hill Carnival masks and paraded around school. We had an amazing time.
We hope you all have a fabulous half term!
Date: 20th Oct 2022 @ 7:24pm
This week we have had a wonderful week learning about the importance of celebrating Black History Month. We looked at the book Coming to England by Floella Benjamin who came to England from Trinidad in 1960. We have enjoyed learning about her culture, important work for equality and Bernado's, life in Trinidad and creating lots of art work.
We had a fantastic afternoon on Wednesday where we explored what life is like in Trinidad where we....
- learnt about the culture and life in Trinidad
- tasted fruits that grow there
- made our own Trinidad inspired music and danced to it
- created our own Trinidad landscape using oil pastels.
What an amazing week we have had!
Nursery Weekly Blog WB 17/10/2022
Date: 20th Oct 2022 @ 4:30pm
This week Nursery have had a fantastic curriculum week inspired by Black History Month. Early Years focus has been African dance, art and music.
We started off the week looking at African animals and creating dance moves for some of the animals. We had some very scary lions,lazy hippos, tall giraffes and slithering snakes. Then we started to put some of the movements to the music of African drums. We all had a turn to beat our rhythyms on the drums and some of us made drums of our own to play along.
We also made some jewelry inspired by Africa which we wore at our fantastic finish on Thursday when we played and moved along to some African drumming music.
We have had a fantastic half term in Nursery and hope that all our children have a lovely half term break and come back refreshed and ready to do some more great learning!
Black History Month - Curriculum Week Learning
Date: 20th Oct 2022 @ 2:28pm
We have been learning about Black History Month especially the Windrush Generation as part of our curriculum week.
We found out about the Caribbean and the people who came to the UK after World War II.
This week, we have been looking at inspirational individuals, who have made a differe
nce to this country.
Reception Blog- Week Beginning 17.10.22
Date: 19th Oct 2022 @ 5:35pm
This week the children in reception have been learning about Black History Month.
On Monday the children used the story 'Rumble in the Jungle' and created their own dances pretending to be the different animals thinking carefully about how they would move.
On Tuesday the children looked closely at tradiitonal african jewellery and enjoyed using pasta, paper plate and card to create their own.
On Wednesday the children looked at traditional african music and enjoyed playing the drums. They then used paper cups to make their own drums.
On Thursday the children looked at animals print and patterns and enjoyed creating their own stamps using bubble wrap, bottle tops and cotton wool to create their own patterns on fabric and paper.
Date: 18th Oct 2022 @ 8:06pm
This week at Greenhill we have been learning about Black History Month. Year 3 and 4 have been given the task to find out about black heroes. The children have spent 4 days looking at many black heroes but more closely at four different men and women. We found out about their lives, their struggles and their determination to achieve. In class the children have been researching the heroes, fact finding, acting out well known times from the heroes life and being creative using a variety of art media to produce some excellent outcomes. The children have asked so many questions which has lead to some great discussions. Well done Class 9 for your eagerness to learn. You are ALL SUPERSTARS!
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Class Blog- Week Ending - 20.10.22
Date: 18th Oct 2022 @ 10:29am
This week we have been learning all about Black History Month- for Curriculum Week.
We started the week with a wonderful assembly and then began learning all about the Windrush Generation.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/43793769
Please click on the link to find out more and ask your child some questions about it.
During the week the children have been creative, making hats for our Notting hill "style" Carnival, painting Caribbean art and studying the journey to England for the Caribbean Islands.
The children have also learnt -all about the racism and discrimination, that the Windrush generation faced, when they arrived in England, after World War 2.
Our children have been amazing, thoughtful in knowledgeable. They have been very empathetic, compassionate and understanding too.
Well done Year 5!
All about Autumn in class 3 WB 10.10.22
Date: 17th Oct 2022 @ 9:28am
This week in class 3 we have been learning all about Poetry and creating our very own poems all about Autumn.
Throughout the week the children used lots of super adjectives to make their poems sound amazing, before performing them on Friday to the rest of the class.
The children applied their Science learning to their learning, thinking about their senses to describe what they could see, hear, feel, taste and smell.
Reception Blog - Week Beginning 10.10.22
Date: 14th Oct 2022 @ 8:37pm
This week in Reception the children have enjoyed learning about traditional foods. In our English learning we have been looking at a story called 'The Runaway Chapatti'. The children have been super Teachers this week as they have been sequencing the story in order, using the language "First, next, then, after that and finally".
In our Maths learning this week, the children have had fun by looking at patterns. The children worked hard all week by making a repetitive pattern. We looked at our patterns in detail, using the language "Green leaf, red leaf" "Tall block, short block". We made sure that we had to use the language for our patterns to be right. Parents you could use household objects to make a pattern, using the language "Tall spoon, short spoon".
In our afternoon learning we have enjoyed having the parents in making chapatis and lentils on the Year 3 art bar. The children also got involved by using their imagination in the home area by mixing, stirring and kneading the dough. As a class we talked about our family members and what our families makes at home. The children then drew pictures of their family and their favourite foods using the grapheme mat and phonemes we have been practicing in Phonics.
Well done Reception!
Date: 14th Oct 2022 @ 3:39pm
The children have been learning about money
They identified all the coins - 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, £1 and £2.
They then looked at buying objects.
First we started to buy the objects with 1p's and then went onto looking at how many 1p's were in 2p, 5p and 10p.
The children then started to add 2 objects together and found the total amount in pence.
Date: 14th Oct 2022 @ 8:58am
This week we ended our topic 'The Countryside' with a fantastic virtual farm trip where we met Farmer Dotty and learnt lots about the jobs she has to do on her farm.
We started by meeting the goats and listening to Lola the goat sing. Farmer Dotty then took us to met her sheepdog who had a very important job on the farm. She showed us how the sheepdog herds the sheep across the field each day so that they can eat different patches of grass.
We then went to the coop where we met Elizabeth the hen and all her friends. We were able to look inside the coop at 3 different types of eggs- maybe you could ask your child what colours they were?
Finally, Farmer Dotty showed us her solar panels and explained how she is using them to keep her farms electric and hot water running.
What a fantastic finish we had!
Date: 13th Oct 2022 @ 9:27pm
This week the children have been learning about their bodies and created faces using fruit.
They selected the fruit they wanted for the different parts of the face. When they had finished, the children had fun eating them!
