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This week, Daffodils' parents were invited to learn more about phonics. After our workshop, we returned to class for some playtime together. The children loved sharing their choosing with their parents.

Our topic for Design and Technology is 'Wearable Technology'. We are designing a product for children to wear to walk to school when there are darker mornings and nights. We used a website to program the Micro:bit, to light up and flash. We programmed Button A to light up and flash. We then…

During our PSHE lesson this week, we have been discussing how we might feel in different scenarios when a hope or dream may not come true. We shared some lovely ideas and demonstrated showing resilience. 

This week in Badgers, we have been using what we have learnt in multiplication, to solve problems. We have used the RUCSAC method to ensure we Read, Underline, Choose, Solve, Answer and Check. We find this helpful and tick off each stage on our RUCSAC book mark.

As part of our topic of Rocks and Soils, we have been learning about how fossils are formed. To help us to understand this process a little better and to help us remember it, we created our own fossils. Once we had created the fossil in our clay rock and left it for millions of years (or maybe…

Children enjoyed developing their gross motor skills outside with the use of balls. 
 

In Science we have been learning about the senses. We had a really exciting lesson in which one pupil got to wear Miss Hems' scarf and then had to guess the object using their senses. We played a video clip of the noise it made, we smelt it, we touched it, and we even got to taste it! It was…

We have been looking at length in Maths this term, using both centimetres and metres as our unit of measurement. 

In RE we have been learning about the 99 names of Allah and the meaning behind some of these. Children were coming up with their own names that they believe represent how powerful Allah is to Muslims. 

We have had a real treat today in Team Starlings, with James from the Co-op coming in to do a 'Healthy Eating Workshop' with us. We have discussed the different food groups and their importance in our diets, and what it means to have a balanced plate. We then got to go to the shop and choose a…

This week we've introduce 'Book Time' in Daffodils. Together, we've talked about how to take care of books and started looking at how to read stories before we can read words. The children have enjoyed getting cosy in the book corner and on the carpet with their books. 

This week in our Ukulele lesson, the children have been recapping and practising chord G7. They embedded this learning by playing a song containing this chord. They also worked on moving between different chords a little more quickly. Finally, they practised part singing, by splitting the class in…