Classes
Bitterns
This week, the Bitterns delved into a lively hot-seating activity, interviewing Mr. and Mrs. Twit – where Mr. Twit showcased his dreadful manners by refusing to knock, snacking on bits from his beard, and slouching improperly in his chair – all in preparation for writing diary entries in the first person!
Programming With Python
We will be learning to use Python, a programming language used to build many websites, including YouTube and Google. Click this link to get started!
Art
This week in our Art lesson, the children put their understanding of colour mixing into practice to recreate their own versions of the artwork ‘0-9’ by artist Jasper Johns. Â We first thought back to our lesson last week to remember what the primary colours are. We applied the primary colours to the numbers on the paper. We had to then mix the primary colours to make secondary colours and add these to the numbers on the paper. The result was very effective!
Measuring
The Bitterns have been busily measuring and comparing lengths and heights with metre sticks this week.
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.
Spring Half Term 1 2025
We started the year off by learning all about the season winter. We explored different materials such as ice, discussing the process of making ice and how it melts. The children also got to paint various sized pieces of ice, observing how it melted as they continued to paint it. We looked at the changes that were happening in our environment, such as frozen leaves, frosty grass and the fact that the trees no longer have leaves! The children investigated these with different resources such as binoculars and magnifying glasses. We also practiced our counting and number recognition with a snowball activity.
We have also been focusing on various fairy tales, including ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ and ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’. The children have taken part in craft activities and different group time tasks focusing on building our vocabularies with learning new describing words, as well as retelling the stories from our memories.
We celebrated Chinese New Year! The children really enjoyed trying noodles and prawn crackers for snack. We’ve listened to traditional stories, made dragon masks and took part in dragon dances on the playground! We also learnt ‘hello’ in Chinese/Mandarin – Ni hao!
 We finished off the half term by celebrating Valentine’s day, focusing on what ‘love’ means to us. We had lots of meaningful conversations where the children told us who, and what they love. When asked what colour the children think love is, one child replied “love is all of the colours!” The children had the opportunity to take part in lots of sensory activities as well as making ‘perfume’ with flowers and coloured water.
