France class have really enjoyed the start of our DT unit of Mechanisms. We learnt about how wheels move with fixed and rotating axles. Then we experimented with making these in preparation for designing our cars! It was great fun and we used the technical vocabulary brilliantly!
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Nursery w/b 9.2.26
Our story will be: The Suitcase
Our rhyme of the week will be: Hickory Dickory Dock
Our maths work will focus on: Giving and taking 1, 2 and 3.
We will also be: adding to our suitcases, writing invitations and preparing a tea party for a visitor. We will use a world map to locate places in the world and talk about places we would like to visit. We will also learn about Valentine’s Day and Pancake day!
Reception w/b 09/02/2026
Our story will be: Mr Wolf’s Pancakes
Our rhyme of the week will be: Oranges and Lemons
Our maths work will focus on: Learning about time
We will also be: Learning about Shrove Tuesday, making (and eating!) pancakes, playing ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf?’ and working on some artistic creations based on Kandinsky’s Circles.
A karate taster session
Year 1’s karate taster session was lively and fun. Through structured activities, the children participated in warm-up and basic techniques activities. Thank you, Verve Karate, for demonstrating the techniques and for building on the balance and coordination skills we previously learnt.
Painting in the style of Piet Mondrian
Year 1 made thick and thin paint marks on a range of surfaces. They used primary colours and the dip, dip, dab method of painting. After practising making controlled marks, they were ready to work in the style of Piet Mondrian. Initially, they painted in blocks of colours before creating their own shapes, painting within their shapes, and drawing black lines. Look how accurately and carefully they are holding their paintbrushes. Wonderful!
Kin Ball
Last Friday, we had 2 sports coaches teach us a sport called ‘Kin Ball’. Kin ball is a game played with a HUGE ball and 4 teams. One team has the ball and 5 people crouch down to hold the ball and then one person (the pusher) calls out a colour and smashes the ball. The chosen coloured team then has to work as a team to try and stop the ball hitting the floor. If they manage it, they get a point. If they don’t, the other team gets a point.
We really enjoyed it and will see you on the blog again soon!
Adam & Caleb
Handa’s Surprise
For talk for writing this half term, we have been listening to the story of Handa’s surprise. Our class received a letter asking for their help! Fruit went missing around our school and they needed our help to find them. We went on a journey around our school and managed to find them all – phew! We also had the opportunity to draw different pieces of fruit using pastels and studying what they look like on the inside and out. We had lots of fun tasting the different fruits and coming up with adjectives to describe them.
Let’s Talk About History
We have been learning about the Ancient Greeks in our history topic this year and, most recently, we were learning about the Battle of Marathon. Here are some of the highlights:
The Persians were going to invade Athens so they asked the Spartans for help. Pheidippides ran for two days and two nights to Sparta but the Spartans were busy with a religious ceremony so wouldn’t help until they finished. So Pheidippides ran all the way back to tell them the response. The Athenians had to fight the Persians alone. General Militiades used the phalanx formation and shocks the Persians with his tactic. They then go to the coast to try and suprise the Athenians but Pheidippides warned the Athenians so they were ready for the attack. After fighting, Pheidippides ran all the way into central Athens and said, “Well done to you, we’ve won.” Then he died of exhaustion.
Big Schools’ Birdwatch
This term in Denmark Class, our science topic is animals (including humans). This week we were learning about mammals and birds and tied our learning in with the RSPB’s Big Schools’ Birdwatch. We learnt about different types of birds and recorded how many of each bird we could see around the school field. To help the birds over winter, we made our own bird feeders using lard and bird seed and will see if we can spot any more birds eating from our feeders over the next few weeks.
Nursery w/b 19.1.26
Our story will be: The Queen’s Hat
Our rhyme of the week will be: Baa Baa Black Sheep
Our maths work will focus on: Using the language of position and direction
We will also be: finding out about London landmarks (and building them using recycled materials) and learning how to programme our Beebot robots.