Week commencing 13th January 2025
Our first full week back has been action packed.
Knex – We had our workshop on Tuesday afternoon and the STEM/Reinshaw staff were very impressed by how well the class worked together showing resilience. Their specification was to create a model/system involving pulleys and a handle, which had to raise a box 11cm off the table and it had to fit on the lid of the box. Everyone met the brief and felt proud of their achievements – they were very aspirational.
Dance – On Thursday, we started creating the beginning of our dance linked to On Top of the World and the children went into two groups to create a move showing a climber (Grace and Samuel) going up a mountain. They then worked as a whole class to allow another climber (Annabel) to climb through a mountain. All our climbers showed great confidence. Both Sarah and I were impressed with the results and we are looking forward to putting the different elements together to create an amazing piece of dance.
Music Technology – Our session on Friday focused on drums and rhythm. The children remembered lots of facts from last week and were keen to get going on Garage Band again. They built on their skills and recorded another piece considering tempo and a range of beat patterns. I enjoyed listening to some of the children’s work and seeing their faces whilst recording!
I was very proud of how well the Falcons house captains organised their treat for their house group. Crafts and snacks galore! Well done Samuel and Tansy - high expectations shown.
Week commencing 6th January 2025
We have had an extremely busy three days back at school! The children have really come back ready to learn using their REACH values.
We have started our new maths unit linked to the order of operations and have thought about BODMAS. The children are getting to grips with what comes first when the four operations are being used.
In English, we have continued to look at our discursive texts and learnt one called ‘Should Zoos be Banned?’ The children had mixed views about this any many of them definitely felt ‘on the fence’ about this discussion. We will be going on to explore different discursive texts linked to issues that the children often have strong opinions about.
Our new topic has started in RE – Galilee to Jerusalem, and the children have been exploring different images of Jesus and how different people have represented him. They have thought about why different cultures and religions might show him in a variety of ways – there were lots of very thoughtful suggestions.
It is exciting to have Sarah Davis-Berry in delivering our PE dance sessions and we are going to be exploring our Geography theme ‘On Top of the World’ through these sessions. This week the children had lots of suggestions for what the word ‘mountain’ meant to them. In our Friday session, we looked at some extreme sports that you would do on or near a mountain – kayaking, snowboarding and rock climbing.
On Friday’s for the next ten weeks, we have the pleasure of having Salo in from The Music Works to work with the class using an online music program called Garage Band. The children engaged well with this and there were lots of smiles around the room!