Children’s Mental Health Week

By Chloe Smith10th February 2023

This week, as part of Children Mental Health Week, we had a visit from the fabulous BlueJay Wellness team, who came to teach us lots of different stretches and calming techniques. As this years theme was ‘Let’s Connect’ we played a game involving connecting with each other to find matching pieces to complete a puzzle, we then had to do whatever stretch was on the card, supporting and using others support to help us balance. Some were very tricky! But with the support of others, we managed to do it. We ended the session by reminding ourselves that we are strong and we are super, which is something we now aim to tell ourselves every day so we never forget how amazing we are!🌟

 

Scientists for the day!

By Chloe Smith26th January 2023

Today we had a very special visit from Katie at Science Buddies, who came to deliver a very important (and fun!) workshop on the importance of washing our hands. For our first experiment we added some “germs” to a Petri dish filled with water. Then we added soap to our fingers and when we touched the water we were amazed to see the germs ran away! This showed us just how important it was to use soap when washing our hands to chase away those nasty germs! Then we rubbed a special cream which contained “germs” (glitter) into our hands and used a UV light to see how many germs were there, before washing our hands and using the UV light again. After washing our hands with soap we could see that all those germs had disappeared! Now we know just how important it is to always use soap!🧼

For our second experiment we made bath bombs! We created a special mixture, which we made sure would be safe to use on our skin and then added some colouring and a scent of our choice. We could choose between bubblegum, candy floss or pear drop – they all smelt delicious so it was very hard to chose! The children were all very excited to take their bath bombs home and try them!

   

Fruit Tasting

By Chloe Smith19th January 2023

This week In Class 4, we have been reading ‘Handa’s Surprise’ by Eileen Brown. The story is about a girl called Handa who sets off to deliver a delicious basket of fruit to her friend – but gets a big surprise when she gets there! Today we tried some of the fruits from the story, including banana, orange, avocado, pineapple and mango. Some of the fruits we had never tried before! We then used adjectives such as soft, juicy and sweet to describe the look, feel and taste of the fruit 🍌🥭🍊🍍🥑

 

Marvelous Maths!

By Chloe Smith16th January 2023

In Class 4, we have been focusing on numbers 11-20. To help us to fully understand each number, we broke each lesson down to firstly focus on 11, 12 and 13 then 14, 15 and 16 before finally looking at 17, 18 and 19. We explored each number by looking at how they can be represented as a numeral, a word and through different practical equipment, such as tens frames, part-whole models and base 10!