The Bitterns have been busily measuring and comparing lengths and heights with metre sticks this week.
Classes
Roald Dahl
The Bitterns have Roald Dahl in our spotlight this half term. This week we have enjoyed a few amusing extracts from The Twits, sketching whilst listening to Dahl’s entertaining description, in preparation for our character profiles next week.
Coots Science
This week in Science we began our learning about our amazing bodies. We started by naming body parts. The children drew around each other and then labelled the body parts. A few tricky challenge ones were added in too!
Coots Computing
In Computing this week, we were exploring the virtual bee-bot. We had to use the programming buttons to make the bee-bot move to a certain letter. Whilst exploring, we realised that the directions needed to be in the correct order. We had to predict, test and review to ensure the bee-bot ended up in the correct place.
This week at Fledglings…
What a fantastic start to 2025 we have had! The children have come back excited and energised ready for the term ahead! We have been doing some 2025 related activities, including mark making and cutting and sticking.
Autumn Half Term 2 2024 – Fledglings
We celebrated Diwali by getting involved in some messy play, recreating fireworks patterns. We also made rangoli patterns with our wooden shapes, whilst ready our book all about Diwali. The children also enjoyed learning some traditional Diwali dance moves!
During this half term we learnt lots about Autumn and seasonal changes in the environment. The children enjoyed going for listening walks around the school grounds, collecting sticks and leaves to use in their play, as well as learning about Nocturnal animals. We focused on the story ‘Owl Babies’, looking at the story sack and re-enacting and retelling the story during role play.
We had a couple of children also came into Fledglings with an interest about the village they live in. This extended to creating a map of Salhouse, adding different places that the children could name. The children worked together with this and compared it to the world map on the wall. We also used to globe to visualise where the United Kingdom is in the world. The children enjoyed using the map in their imaginative play, adding small figures, cars and trains to support their ideas.
Making Christmas hats
The children enjoyed making their Christmas hats ready to wear during our School Christmas lunch.
Forest School
This week in Forest School children built sturdier dens using the reef knot and the round turn and two half hitches; made a grave for a hedgehog and learned to whittle and knit.
Electricity
Year 4 have been exploring electricity, learning that it is a form of energy and that it can be generated in many ways. They learned about the National Grid and how electricity makes its way from the power stations into our schools, businesses and homes. Now they are building and testing circuits of their own.
Gressenhall Trip
Grebes went to Gressenhall Workhouse and Farm to deepen their understanding of what childhood was like in Victorian times for both rich and poor. Under the strict schoolmistress’s eye, they set the table, shone shoes and polished brass. Children also made candy canes and dolls, as well as enjoying some traditional dance, song and drama. A HUGE thanks to FOSS for funding this trip!