"They will soar on wings like eagles" (Isaiah 40:31)
Respect / Responsibility / Courage / Trust / Perseverance / Compassion
In Science Year 4 played a game to learn about the relationship between predator and prey populations. They took on the roles of lynxes and snowshoe hares living in the Arctic tundra to see how nature exists in a balance: if there are too many lynxes, they end up starving due to lack of prey; not enough lynxes and the snowshoe hares end up consuming the vegetation… And starving!
Our Year 5/6 football team did us proud this week in the Cluster Tournament, finishing 3rd of 8 teams. The players will have a more detailed update coming just after half-term. The next event will be Cluster Cross Country so get training!
We were very lucky to have the sun shining for our P.E. Lesson with Mr Ward this week. We were busy skipping and weaving in and out of poles.
Coots are getting excited for the half term holiday and we look forward to hearing everyone’s news when we return to school.
To start the school year we focused on the topic ‘all about me’. The children were encouraged to bring in photos to create family trees; we painted life size self-portraits, as well as concentrating on our own characteristics. The children enjoyed measuring themselves, recording this by sticking masking tape to the window. We then introduced interlocking cubes for the children to stack them to their height. The average height was around 30 cubes tall!
During this half term, we have also been spending a lot of time discussing our emotions and feelings. To support this, we have completed various activities on The Colour Monster story, where the children have been identifying, naming and understanding emotions. This is something we will continue to focus on throughout the year.
As we near the end of the half term, we are now starting to learn all about autumn. The children have been exploring pumpkins and learning different facts about them. The children have used some wonderful describing words whilst talking about the pumpkins – “sticky”, “gooey”, and “super slimey”. We have also been observing the changes in their environment, with trips up to the school field to find items such as conkers, acorns, brown/orange leaves. The children have enjoyed mark making and leaf rubbing with the different sized leaves.
In our Maths learning this week, Reception Coots have been making repeating patterns and Year 1 Coots have been making number bonds to 10.
In History we are investigating how the lives of children have changed over time. Each group learned about a child from a different era, did a presentation to the class and put their character on our giant timeline on the playground. See if you can spot Lily and Hattie in the distance – their character, Taya from the last Ice Age (15,000 years ago), could not fit on the timeline!
In Grebes, Year 4 have been learning all about Food and Digestion, this week focusing on food chains in different ecosystems. Meanwhile, Year 5 have been learning all about mixtures and separation.
We have enjoyed reading for pleasure this week!
As a ‘bringing to the end’ of our History unit for this half term, the Bitterns put together a Time Capsule.
Grebes also loved performing their Harvest rap at the church.
