After carefully crafting our volcanoes last week, the time finally came to make them EXPLODE!!! The students used baking soda, vinegar and red food colouring to make hot lava spill out of their volcanoes. They all enjoyed this exploitation into our new Science topic
In class, the children have been enjoying reading and learning all about Rapunzel 📖✨ In today’s lesson, everyone was given a character and had the chance to act out their lines from the story. This led to lots of laughter and giggles, with some wonderfully scary witch voices and some very impressive “lady voices” from … Read more
Today, Durham class turned into a mini marketplace as the children learned all about money! 💰🛍️ Abbey opened up her very own shop, filled with tempting treasures for the children to buy using their lesson money. Each child was given 50p (in 5p coins), putting their maths skills to the test as they worked out prices, … Read more
On Friday, the Durham class took part in an exciting team challenge – a castle battle! 🏰 The class was split into two teams, each tasked with defending their own castle while launching “cannonballs” at the opposing team. The children had to think carefully, work together, and show great resilience as they blocked incoming cannons … Read more
Watching Balmoral class during our handwriting practice is wonderful, seeing how independent and motivated they are to perfect their letter formation and put our phonics knowledge into practice to spell out focus words.
Balmoral class have explored how time collectives are used in our writing. We explored instructions and how they help give clear directions. We used this to plant some beans in hope to watch how they grow.
In art we have explored still life and the skills of sketching. We have practiced the skills of hatching, cross hatching, scumbling and tonal shading. Balmoral worked with a partner to set up their still life using vegetables and fruit, using the learnt techniques to create some amazing art.
We have been focusing on the Autumn season, particularly the rain. We used water in maths to learn about ‘full’ and ’empty’, splashed and poured during sensory play, and even enjoyed feeling the rain outside. We also looked at rainy-day items like umbrellas, loved being gently misted with water spray, and brought water play into … Read more
This week in Appleby, we have been busy making dinosaur dens! We have had lots of fun exploring dinosaurs through play and building, we even made our own obstacle course, we climbed through our tunnel, to get to our den! We also listened to some dinosaur music. And read our story ‘ cave baby ‘. … Read more
Our Star of the Week this Week is George. George has been engaging really well in his PSHE lesson by listening and responding. Well Done George 😀