Christmas Story Freeze Frames

The children have been using drama this week to explore the key point in the Christian Christmas Story. Some of them were surprised to learn about King Herod and how he tried to stop the new king. 

Active Maths

The children have been combining physical education with their maths skills today. They have actively been working in teams to create and solve addition questions using column method. 

Letters of Thanks 

In our English lessons we have been learning about letter writing. The children have all written a thank you letter to Yorkshire Wildlife Park for letting us visit. They have described the wonderful things we did and wanted to thank the staff for all their hard work at the park. 

African Dancing 

This half term the children have been learning an African inspired dance as part of their P.E lessons. Each week we have rehearsed what we learnt in previous lessons and then gradually added new steps. 

African Bags

The children have applied their sewing skills they have been learning in previous design technology lessons. They have measured, cut and joined the fabric together to create a mini African bag. 

Sewing Techniques

As part of our design technology lessons we are have been learning sewing skills ready to make our own African bag! We tried running stitch, back stitch and blanket stitch.

Investigating Muscles

Today we have been exploring how are muscles relax and contract. We made a model using card and elastic bands to represent out biceps and triceps. We discovered that when one contracted the other relaxes. 

Yorkshire Wildlife

As part of this terms topic, we went on a trip to Yorkshire Wildlife. While we were there we saw lots of African animals and discovered some interesting facts! The animals were very playful and we even heard the lions roar! It was a great day and the children had lots of fun! The sunshine even came out for us! 

Power Maths

The children have been learning how to add and subtract using counters. This method has helped them to understand place value and exchanging. Some of the children found this difficult initially but with perseverance they have made excellent progression! Well done Green 3. 

Exploring Artists

The children have been looking at two artists this half term; Andy Warhol and Steven Brown. Both Artists explore the use of colour and repeated patterns. We started by creating repeated animal prints in a variety of colours, much like Andy Warhol did in his famous prints. We then went on to explore different mediums such as paint, wax crayon and felt tip to see how that changed the pattern. Finally, we began to look at how Steven Brown used colour on portraits of animals which we then recreated ourselves linking this to our topic of Africa by choosing a lion portrait.

Brochures for Africa

Over the last two weeks we have been exploring the features of a brochure in preparation to create our own. We have worked really hard to develop our persuasive language and build our sentence skills. Would you like to visit a place like this? 

Read All About It!

In our English lessons we have been learning about the features of a newspaper. Using the story 'Akimbo' we wrote our own newspaper report all about the poachers in Africa. We found out lots of information about what poaching was and the children wrote fantastic reports that included facts and quotes. 

African Map Work

We have been learning how to use atlases this half term and have been revisiting terminology such as continents, equator, climate and terrain. The children have been learning about the geographical aspects of Africa. Did you know there are 54 countries in Africa?!

Lion King Descriptions

The children have been working really hard to create detailed descriptions of different characters from The Lion King. They have been exploring new and exciting vocabulary to improve their writing and interest the reader. 

Types of Teeth

The children have been learning about the different types of teeth humans have. They made their own models and used different colours to represent the canines, incisors, molars and pre molars. We also discussed how some adults have wisdom teeth but they don't have a function!