World Book Day – Spoons – As part of World Book day celebrations, we created a wooden spoon character. Also using the stimulus ‘The Jungle Book’ we wrote a balanced argument for fire (The Red Flower), created a belonging rap poem and explored and performed part of the famous poem Tiger by William Blake. We …
Geography – a new topic entitled ‘Rivers. The children first learnt about the different courses in the river and what features you may find at each stage. Then they worked in groups to create a model of a river, labelling different features. The children were so engaged and worked well deciding what materials to use …
What a busy half term. Hockey – The children have been working with a member of the Ridgeway PE team to develop their hockey skills and playing mini matches. The children were taught the different passes, how to dribble and stop the ball plus how to block a player. It was great fun and the …
DT – the children really enjoyed their DT exploring savoury crackers. This included a taste test of shop bought crackers, a class survey to inform our decisions on what type of cracker to make, baking our own versions culminating in a class competition (won by Zach ‘The Star Baker’). We finished the topic by looking …