Friday 1st October 2021

This week we have spent some time in the forest which allowed us to check on the status of our structures and answer the million dollar question as to whether the kindling was still  dry.  We were not too hopeful as it has been very windy and rainy.   We found a mixture of results but we were able to identify which structures had worked well and why, which should help us in the future. The next questions were: could we light a fire; did we have enough kindling. 

We managed to get the fire lit but quickly realised that there would not be enough kindling to boil our Kelly Kettle.  We decided to fill our most successful structures with more kindling so that we will be able to look forward to a nice warm drink (as it gets colder) the next time we are in the forest.

 

In collective worship this week, we have been continuing our journey through the bible although we are still in the book of Genesis.  We found out about the test that God gave Abraham in terms of sacrifice and what this means.

A Windswept Success

On Friday afternoon, Discoverers’ class visited Whitby Rugby Club for a fun-filled afternoon of rugby.

We battled the forces and played such fun activities, whilst seeing some familiar faces and having so many giggles 😃

Everybody worked hard, played hard, and enjoyed our first trip of many this year!

Here’s to some fantastic rugby skills being learned, and having such a ball with our class family ❤️

Even ‘the wheels on the bus’ was welcomed!

Have a great weekend everybody!

This Week in Collective Worship

This week we read together the story of  Loaves and Fishes. When I said loaf,the Pioneers thought that I said love. Maybe they really understood the story! Love and Fishes.

Our story,The Red Hat continued our theme of thankfulness and those who are thankful for us. The little girl is given a red hat by her grandfather and they have lots of fun sharing time together.

We took a look at the church in our village and talked about what happens there. We spotted it from the classroom window.

We now have a prayer space with the church and the trees. This will build up over the next week.

The Enormous Turnip and other Vegetables

We have pulled and yanked and heaved and dragged a selection of vegetables from their soil. The Pioneers looked over the root systems and pulled off the stems and the leaves. The spiders and woodlice ran for their lives. We read a number of books about vegetables and talked about our experiences of planting,growing,harvesting and eating.

We read different versions of the old favourite,  “The Enormous Turnip” and retold our version with a story map and puppets to help us.

It’s been a very lovely week of learning together.

Another busy week for Adventurers!

Adventurers are becoming experts on France, as we continue to add more information to our reports in our English, French and Geography lessons. We have learnt all about French food, saying the correct words in French then making up our own French menus. We have researched all the things you can do and see in France and can name many well known landmarks!

We are all really looking forward to our ‘French Day’ next week.

The children enjoy working with Mrs Gurney (ICT specialist) every Friday morning and have been learning and following subject specific language when carrying out sequencing tasks on Tinker.

In art this week, we have been recreating cave paintings by making our own foam prints of prehistoric animals and printing these onto distressed paper. The results looked very realistic. 

Autumn’s in the air!

We have felt very Autumnal this week in Learners’ Class. We were so thankful that we probably had the only sunny day this week as our Forest School day. We had our scientific hats on as we collected as many leaves as we could, then discussed in teams how we wanted to sort them into groups. Each team chose a different way to sort them. We had “smooth leaves” and “spiky leaves”, “sycamore leaves” and “oak leaves”, “big leaves” and ” small leaves” and “green leaves”, “orange leaves”  and “green/orange mix leaves”. Our teamwork was amazing and we worked collaboratively together.

We have also delighted in studying the tree outside our classroom in Science this week. We produced some outstanding drawings of the tree in Autumn and we will be watching our tree change through each of the seasons.

In History, we have been learning what a timeline is and how we use them. We even created a timeline of our own life events starting with the year we were born and ending a present day. We found this quite fascinating!

We have been enjoying reading books from The Family Large series this week – by Jill Murphy. I think our Friday vote will be quite interesting this week – I wonder which story will prove the favourite?

We are really enjoying our research of The United Kingdom – our knowledge is deepening each day. We have been writing down interesting facts all week and are nearly ready to put together a Learners’ Class Report of the United Kingdom – watch this space! 

Learners’ Class

 

 

 

 

Pioneers Make The World A Better Place

Our Christian Value is Thankfulness and this week we asked,”Who is thankful that we are here?”

We revisited the story The Digger and the Flower where a kind digger saves the seeds from a flower to replant in a green space when new building happens right where it had been growing. The flower was thankful for the digger. 

The Pioneers knew that their families were thankful for them.

Our Thankful Bear whispered in my ear and everyone overheard him telling me how wonderful the Pioneers were.

Great fun and thoughtful learning.

Six Dinners Sid in Sleights

Six Dinners Sid has had quite an adventure around the village. The Pioneers spotted him in every picture and then we talked about where he had been and what he could do there. They identified places they had visited and described where they lived in relation to places Sid had been. They spotted maps and commented of the difference between a road map and the network map at the train station. 

Sid is now in the classroom and he has his own name label written specially for him

The Pioneers then built their own version of our village,cutting out road signs and pictures of our shops and sticking them on blocks. The train line went right around the room.

Such wonderful learning.

An exciting week for Adventurers!

This week Adventurers have really enjoyed joining Learners in the hall for Collective Worship every morning and Celebration Assembly on Friday afternoon. We have been learning about our Christian Value ‘Thankfulness’ and discussing lots of things we are thankful for.

In science this week we made sundials and used compasses to help us observe how the sun appears to move across the sky from East to West. We learnt that it is the Earth that rotates and the sun doesn’t move. 

We’ve really enjoyed visiting the school library to pick our own books to read at home.