Blog Author: Lyndsey Faulkner

Fostering the love of reading. Who is your favourite author?

This week we have explored multiplication and division through the use of arrays and grouping. I challenged the children to represent our mathematical symbols with a friend. The results have been quite inventive!

We created our own number sentences using division, repeated addition and multiplication to match our arrays.

Look at our smiley winners this week. One received the reader of the week and one received our mega maths modeller trophy for recognising the properties of numbers as we played property towers. Well done also to our star award winner Julian and our super learner, brilliant behaviour and Good…

Sequencing  how to brush your teeth is an unplugged activity to introduce the concept of an algorithm.

Our computing specialist, Miss Bently joined us today to introduce algorithms. An algorithm is ... 

Well done to all our challengers this week, especially Aidan, Robyn, Davy, Olivia, Tayla, Connie, Lola, Astrid and Jake who scored top marks in their individual challenge!  Keep it up!

The children have been set a learning log challenge to be completed for Friday 27th November. I have asked the children to research a famous historical person of their choice. The children will then present their findings in a one minute presentation on the 27th. The children can use song, dance,…

A sailor went to sea, sea, sea... You know the rest! We decided that the pirates would need some time out from all that rowing so we rehearsed a traditional hand clapping game and even worked on a few new moves!

Retelling of sea shanties through the use of the parachute!

The children are true explorers of the New World ... They loved hardtack and asked for seconds, I'm unsure if they could eat it day in and out after days and weeks at sea! I think the contrast of bananas came as a welcome relief to the early explorers on encountering the Americas.

Well done to this weeks award winners ... Lewis, Louie, Davy and Heidi, keep it up!