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• Year One - Finding Half

  Thu 19 May 2022 Mrs i

  This week in Year 1 we have been exploring ways of making half. The children have folded shapes and today we moved on to finding half of a quantity. We used objects to share between two equally to find 1/2. Perhaps you find opportunities to support their learning by finding half of objects eg pizza or amounts eg grapes.
  We had fun. We hope you do too!  

  

• Reception-All about Spiders

  Thu 19 May 2022

  If you want to learn about spiders, pop down to Reception.

  We painted tropical spiders, wrote sentences about spiders and used our hands to create black spiders with 8 legs. We used spiders to help us with making the number 8 and much, much more......

  

• Year 4 - Day 1 - Leeson House

  Thu 19 May 2022

  Hello from Leeson Mansion - well that is what the children called it as we approached the house. 

   

  After being welcomed by the fantastic staff here at Leeson, we were quickly out on our first adventure: our long walk to Dancing Ledge. We had some amazing stories told along the way, lots of snacks and drinks, and lunch was the best with some spectacular views. 

  We had a long walk down, and ascending back up the hill was a huge task. What a great bunch of walkers! We managed to get back in time just as the first drops of rain fell!

   

  We found our rooms, practised the fire drills, and then had the hard task of carrying our suitcases to our rooms. The staff are superheroes for helping lug some huge bags. Next it was time for making beds...well that's a story in itself!

   

  As I type this blog, I am in one of the rooms keeping them company as they settle down to sleep. The long walk, fantastic evening meal and entertaining night should have made them all very sleepy! 

   

  The children are all doing great  Goodnight from Year 4

  

• Year 3 - super adverts on iPads using iMovie!

  Sat 14 May 2022

  Year 3 have had great fun being in the advertising industry in Computing this half term!

   

  We have practised using iPads to take photos and record video clips, then we scripted and recorded our own adverts.

   

  We used iMovie to put clips together, add transitions, filters, text and background music to create our final product.

   

  Well done to the children for learning so many new skills so quickly. 

  

• Year 2 - maths partitioning

  Fri 13 May 2022

  This week we have been looking at different ways to partition numbers. We thought of so many! How many can you come up with?

  

• 13 May 2022 Year 4 – It’s all sunshine, sports and coasts

  Fri 13 May 2022 FProbert

  Another happy week in Year 4. We have been enjoying the sunshine with our swimming lessons and our PSHE lessons outside. In PSHE, we always start each lesson with a Connect game, this helps us to focus on the lesson ahead. We had our second swimming lesson which was lots of fun, and already we are developing our confidence and strokes. We continued to enjoy the sunshine when we had our PE lesson on Friday. We developed our hand/eye coordination in Rounders and even managed a game too!

  In class, we have continued with our Topic work on coasts, and looked at the route we will take to Leeson house next week.  We linked our English work to our geography work, writing a non-chronological report about coasts. Check out some of our work. Next week, we are off to our long-awaited trip to Leeson House. Look out for some super photos!

   

  

• Year One - Writing a postcard

  Thu 12 May 2022 Mrs i

  This week we have learnt about writing a postcard. The children have thought about the places holiday makers could visit if they came to Weymouth on holiday. We have planned and written our own post cards. The children learnt to write the word ‘I’ with a capital letter and used the words today, yesterday and tomorrow to structure their writing. We think they did a super job!!!! 

  

• Reception-Superworm

  Thu 12 May 2022

  We have enjoyed listening to the story of Superworm, and loved making our super Superworms. We brought in socks, filled them with rice, and decorated them. 

  Can you pick a favourite, or make one at home?

  

• Year 6 Post SATs Celebration

  Thu 12 May 2022

  Year 6 have all done a fantastic job this week completing their SATs. They have worked extremely hard and tried their absolute best. As a treat for their hard work, the children completed a paired biscuit decorating challenge where they had to create a portrait of their partner on the biscuit whilst their hands were tied together. 

  

• Year 5 Mummification

  Thu 12 May 2022

  As part of our history topic on the ancient Egyptians, Year 5 ‘mummified’ some tomatoes.

  Although the children didn’t actually wrap the tomatoes in bandages or place the fruit into a sarcophagus, they followed similar preparatory steps to those that were practised thousands of years ago. To mimic the removal of a pharaoh’s squishy innards, the children removed the tomato seeds and the surrounding pulp. They then covered the remains of the tomatoes in salt to preserve them, similar to the ancient Egyptian technique of drying and preserving bodies with natron (a mixture of sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate).

  We will be checking the fruity pharaohs over the next couple of weeks, and, who knows, we may even get the bandages out!