Year 5 - R.E. - Class Worship 6th Dec 2024
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Year 5 are responsible for a weekly class worship - they usually work in pairs and focus on a specific aspect, finding a reading and reflection to work together. They then lead the class worship. This week's leaders chose the theme 'Resonsibility' with some lovely reflection music and a joyful John Burland song to finish..

Reception - Mathematics 2nd Dec 2024
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The children have been learning the compositions of 5 in different ways by sharing 5 buttons between 2 bears and , then putting some frogs in the pond and some outside; then working out how many altogetherrs

Year 5 - P.E. - Gymnastic-tastic 2nd Dec 2024
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As you will have seen from the St. Francis Flyer, our gymnastics sessions this term have focussed on creating shapes with balance, symmetry, cannon and unison. We have then been working together to create sequences to perform to the rest of the class.

Year 4 - DT - Pavilions 2 28th Nov 2024
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Now we have begun to clad our pavilions

Year 4 - DT - Pavilions 1 28th Nov 2024
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We have begun to create our structures.

Year 5 - Science - Space Day 2024 15th Nov 2024
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Our science day about all things SPACE!

Year 4 - ICT - photo editing 14th Nov 2024
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We have begun to be real photo editors. Using images provided we looked at changing the colours and filters on our images for differing effects.

Year 4 - DT - Structures 14th Nov 2024
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In DT we have started to explore how we can make pavilions. We used cocktail sticks and plasticine to create models to help with our designs.

Year 5 - Remembrance 2024 11th Nov 2024
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We decided to create reflective artwork as a focus for Remembrance this year.

Year 1 - Art & Design - Drawing - Final Pieces 23rd Oct 2024
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The children chose their paper and materials to create the final pieces for their drawing unit. They discussed what inspired them with an adult and talked about what they liked about their final pieces.

Year 1 - P.E. Gymnastics 21st Oct 2024
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We have been looking at jumps, balancing and travels in our lessons.

Year 4 - Art - Power prints 18th Oct 2024
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We completed our unit on creating prints with different methods by creating a group project of printing onto fabric. We used lots of different printing techniques and made sure the colours we used were contrasting. It was great fun!

Year 4 - RE - worship 17th Oct 2024
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In year 4 the children are able to prepare their own worship for their class. It's a wonderful time for the children to reflect on the Gospel teaching and prepare prayer for all the class to participate in.

Year 4 - Music - Reading music 17th Oct 2024
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We have begun to learn how to read notation during our music lessons.

Year 4 - Science - Hello? Can you hear me? 17th Oct 2024
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In science we investigated how sound can travel through different mediums. We made our won telephones and tested to see how long the string would be before the sound stopped travelling.

Year 4 - Science - musical vibrations 17th Oct 2024
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In science we have been learning about sound and how it is made. We investigated what happens to the pitch of an elastic band when we stretch it by creating our own musical instruments.

Year 1 - Design & Technology - Stable Structures 17th Oct 2024
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We have been learning how to make a structure have a more stable base. As well as making it wider, we also learned that if you add weight to the base, it will make it even more stable.

Year 1 - Design & Technology - Stable Structures 14th Oct 2024
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We have been learning how to make a structure have a more stable base. We learned that the wider the base, the more stable it is. We tested this out by building unstable towers and stable towers.

Y4 - Computing - Slides 7th Oct 2024
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In our reading in class we looked at Muhammad Ali - we used the research to create some presentations about what he have learned.

Year 4 - Art - Wax resist art 7th Oct 2024
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We used our brightly coloured wax pictures, painted them with black paint and then scratched some pictures using out drawing with scissors designs.

Year 5 - Art - Using a collograph 4th Oct 2024
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As part of our Art for this half term we are using different techniques to create a background for our final piece. We had already created a collograph (a print plate using different textures to create patterns), today's task was using our collograph to print our background.

Year 5 - Science - investigating Forces - water resistance 2nd Oct 2024
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We have been looking at Forces this term - Each group created a vessel using the same materials. The vessels were then tested for speed through the water to see how streamlined the designs were.

Reception - Maths - Matching and Sorting 1st Oct 2024
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The children have really enjoyed exploring Mathematical concepts of matching and sorting. We have explored different ways to sort objects and materials and we have also been looking at matching in different ways using the Numicon and picture cards.

Year 2 - Art - drawing with scissors 27th Sep 2024
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We studied the work of Henry Matisse and created our own 'drawings with scissors' in his style.

Year 1 - Maths -Compare Objects And Numbers 27th Sep 2024
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We have been developing our understanding of numbers within 10. We have been using the language of fewer, more, same and greater than, less than and equal to to compare groups of objects and numbers. We even had a discussion about square numbers!

Year 1 - Art & Design - Drawing - Shape 27th Sep 2024
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We have been looking at how artists use shape in their artwork. We created our own shape inspired artwork.

Reception - Science - Our Bodies 25th Sep 2024
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The children have been learning about 'Our Bodies' - We drew round one of the children and then had a go at drawing and labelling parts of our body.

Reception - Art 25th Sep 2024
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The children have been expressing themselves through a variety of art activities, using loose parts and understand lines using chalks

Year 1 - Science - Animals, Including Humans - Body Parts 24th Sep 2024
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We have been learning about the parts of our bodies! We learned that scientists ask and answer questions. We wondered why we have different sized hands. We measured our hand lengths using cubes and then put them into order from the largest to smallest. We tried to think of why some people had bigger hands. We thought it could be because they are grown up or older or because they are taller. What great scientists we are!

Year 4 - Art - proportion drawing 19th Sep 2024
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We learnt how to use depth and shadow to create images in proportion

Year 5 - English - performing our poetry 17th Sep 2024
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Poetry should be performed and we made the most of the late Summer sun to perform our poetry outside!

Year 1 - R.E. - Family - Psalms 16th Sep 2024
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We learned that Psalms are 'prayer songs'. We have been looking at some Psalms that show how God cares for His family. One described God looking after His family like a hen looks after her chicks. We made our own hens and chicks to help us think of this Psalm.

Year 1 - Art & Design - Drawing - Water Stimulus 16th Sep 2024
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We have been learning about how artists use different types of line in art. We have practised drawing different lines using different materials. We listened to some classical music that was based on water and thought about the types of lines and colours we could use to make a water-inspired piece of art. We had great fun!

Reception 13th Sep 2024
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The children have really enjoyed their first week at school. We are learning new routines and how to play cooperatively with each other and exploring our new environment.

Y4 - Art - Shading 12th Sep 2024
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We have been learning how to use shading to create and depth to create 3D images

Year 1 - RE - Family 9th Sep 2024
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We have been learning about the importance of family in RE. We thought about the special people in our family and drew one of these people. We then decided to take them on a tour of our special Peace Garden.

Year 1 - Maths - Sort Objects 6th Sep 2024
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We have been looking at how we can group objects into sets by looking at what is the same and what is different about them. We worked in pairs to sort the objects. We sorted by colour, size, shape and type.

First Week In Year 1 5th Sep 2024
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I wonder how much we will grow up this year!

Year 1 - Maths - Place Value (Within 10) - Number Cities 4th Sep 2024
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We have had a great start to our maths learning. We have been practising counting forwards and backwards. We made some numberblock cities by counting out the cubes we needed. We could then see which number was greater.

Year 2 - DT - Wraps 18th Jul 2024
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Today we made and ate our wraps. We enjoyed our time in the park!

Curly Wurly Championship 2024 with Year 2 17th Jul 2024
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Today was the end of our 'Changing Shape' materials topic. We ended the topic with the Curly Wurly stretch challenge. We knew that a child on Explorify had managed to stretch her Curly Wurly to about 90cm and that the world record was over 400cm!! We had 3 minutes each to stretch the toffee as far as we could. Our results were: Joint 3rd with 123cm Kaylee and Winner. 2nd place was Jane with 126 cm and in 1st place was Nikodem with an impressive 134cm. Well done to everyone who took part.

Year 2 - Textiles - Our finished pouches 12th Jul 2024
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We completed our pouches by planning and decorating our pouches.

Sports day - PE 12th Jul 2024
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Sports day - where we did lots of sporty things and displayed great athleticism and team work!

Year 5 - DT - Cooking day! 7th Jul 2024
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The school was filled with wonderful cooking aromas on our DT day. We adapted a spaghetti bolognaise recipe and produced some rather tasty dishes!

Science: Stretch Investigation 7th Jul 2024
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Year 2 received a letter from the Science Laboratory of Super Heros asking them to work out the best fabric to design a new outfir for Elastagirl. After discussions last week it was time to put their ideas into practice this week by carrying out their investigations. We got some very good results that we will be tabulating this week and sending our reply and answers to the Laboratory

Year 2 - DT - Sewing 5th Jul 2024
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We have been designing and making our own pouches. We cut out a template, pinned it to some felt, cut it out and now we have sewn the two pieces together with a running stitch.

Year 2 - Music - Djembe drumming 5th Jul 2024
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We welcomed Dan into our school to learn about African drumming. We had a wonderful time and learnt to listen to rhythms and play as a group.

Year 2 - DT - Taste testing and skill developing 27th Jun 2024
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Today we practised our cutting and grating skills. We then tasted our ingredients to see which combinations we liked best. Some of us tried some foods for the first time and liked them!

Year 2 - Maths - capacity 27th Jun 2024
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We have been learning how to measure in L and ml