Adrian Townsend Visit

We were very lucky yesterday to have author Adrian Townsend come and visit the school. He talked to years 2 to 6 about how he gets his ideas, what helps him write and his writing process.

He then read one of his short stories from Gran's Gang to the children. 

He even brought in a potato and a hose to help!

Thank you very much to Adrian Townsend for an entertaining afternoon.

Sea Slugs

Year three had a very special treat this afternoon. A band called Sea Slugs came to play us some music. We joined in with the singing (after doing our vocal warm ups) and then joined the band as a huge drum kit.

This was the introduction where we listened to a song (we danced in our seats a bit as well!)

Then we got up to do our vocal warm up.

Then we became a giant drum kit (stomping and clapping)

 

A huge thank you to Sea Slugs for a great afternoon that we all enjoyed and to Mrs Pritchard for organising the workshop.

Dragonflies Grounds Week Blogs

This week Dragonflies have been learning how to blog. Below are the blogs that the choldren have created. They chose what they wanted to write about, retold what happened and inserted their own photos to help explain.


Jack and Brogan's Blog
On Monday we went up to the woods to find the oldst tree.

 

On Tuesday we went on Scratch. Scratch is a programme that you can
use to code.

It was fun!!!

Thomas and Ria's Blog
On Wednesday we were practising rounders. It was  great.
   

Bailey and Chase's Blog
On Monday we were set a challenge. It was to find the oldest tree in the school woods. To do this we had to work together to measure the circumference of a tree and divide it by 2.5



After break we played rounders it was extreemley good. It was pratice for Friday when we play year 2.We have some really really amazing and fantastic bowlers,fielders and batters.

The next day we played on a programme called scratch it was pretty fun. Here are some photos.










On Thursday we did some orienteering.


Jessica and Caitlin's Blog
On Monday our class was set a challenge . The challenge was to measure circumference of a tree to work out how old it was. We had to go in the woods .
This is our friends measuring trees. We had to work together. We used a compass and walked around. During these activities we had to understand others .These things were really really fun.

In P.E we all have been playing rounders. We have had a match in house groups (fire , earth ,wind and water ) . This is a piture of our class playing rounders. Rounders is so fun. We took it in turns to bat and bowl.  We had to practise to improve .


Melissa and Shakeela's Blog
On Tuesday we played on a programme called scratch on the laptops. Playing with scratch was fun the whole class made there own little programs.This someones funny programe.This programe is about a cat running out of a classroom.


On Wednesday we did orienteering in the woods as a class. Here is s picture of some people doing orienteering.










Jacob and Owen's Blog
On Monday we were set a challenge of finding out what tree was the oldest in the school woods. To do this we had to work together to measure the cumfrence of a tree and divied it by 2.5.

Te next day went on a programme called...... scratch it is the best programme.
Here are some photographs of scratch

















Amisha and Joseph's Blog
On Monday dragonflies went to the woods. We measured the trees in groups of 3. We had measuring sticks and a tape measure.

On Tuesday we went on scratch and made a video.
    Wow!

Kyle and Layton's Blog
On monday we were set a challange of finding the oldest tree in the school wood's. To do this we had to work together to measure the cicrumference of a tree and divide by 2.5.

On Tuesday morning we dis some programing on a game called scratch 2. Some of us dis this one, a football match .If you go on motion you can make your character talk.

We also played a match of rounders. Water and Earth won.

Oscar and Hayden's Blog
On monday we measuerd trees .It was fun.

This is one of the children's scratch   programmes. It took a long time.

The boys and girls are looking at a compass looking for a direction.


Jasmine and Janelle's Blog
On Tuesday we learnt how to programe using  a game called scratch2. First we had to log onto it then start programing.Everybody had great ideas. This was one of are favourite subjects.

On Monday we learnt how to play rounders because on Friday we were going against year 2.

On Thursday we had to go into the woods because we were learning how to use a compass. This was called orienteering.


Corben and Bailey's Blog
On Monday we went in the grounds and we had to find the biggest tree circumference in the woods. When we got back we divided it by 2.5 to find how old it was.







On Monday we played rounders. We all found it fun
Lots of us got a rounder.

 

On Tuseday we all went on scratch and some people got to do a second one. It was epic.

Bumble Bees Grounds Week Blog

This week Bumble Bees have been learning how to blog. Below are the blogs that the choldren have created. They chose what they wanted to write about, retold what happened and inserted their own photos to help explain.

Bitsa and Demi's Blog
I love grounds week because it is an opportunity to do intresting things outside. My most favourite thing that we did was orienteering. We went in the woods.

I love grounds week because it is full with fun and you can do lots of activities. I liked the part where we measured trees.

Brooklyn's Blog
I really enjoyed sketching the trees. We went on the scooters for our marble treat. We really enjoyed orienteering we got to get the compasses.

We went in the woods, we went on the computers and we had a game of rounders.


Alice's Blog
I really liked grounds week because you got to play in the mud and normally read stories together and we all explored the scary forest for our learning and it was fun. We had lots of fun.



Jay and Ellie's Blog
I really enjoyed grounds week we did lots of amazing things. We enjoyed measuring the circumference of the tree's and exploring the woods. We also sketched beautiful picture's of nature. It was awesome and brillent

I was really exitied to go to the woods and to use the compass and to find the clues. It was easy when we worked as a team.


Kieran and Oli's Blog
In grounds week we had a good time because we where playing lots of things  in the woods like orienteering.

 








Sophie and Ellena's Blog
This week we've been doing grounds week in the woods and we have been doing fun things like looking for cards in the woods during orienteering.We love grounds week.
 GROUNDS WEEK IS FUN.

Jakub and Elliot's Blog
We have the best grounds week. We've been sketching trees and orienting this a very good to learn.


Grace and Nikita's Blog
We have had so much fun during our great grounds week . I am so tired after our opportunity to sketch any living plant, measuring trees so we can find out thier age and orienteering was fun when we had to find the cards but it was a little tricky at the same time!









Whilst sketching we all enjoyed searching for plants of different types.Adding as much detail as possible was tricky but worth it as they were all absoutely amazing.Also they looked so realistic as we took our time.

We had so much fun during grounds week.

Louie and Jake's Blog
This week we have been doing grounds week and it has been very good fun. Our favourite bit of grounds week was doing measuring with trees and we also liked doing things about cool flowers and we liked using a compass.















Jaya's Blog
In Grounds week I enjoyed doing the sketching and using the compass . We had lots of fun.


Vanessa's Blog
I really enjoyed grounds week especially when we were sketching the woods. Also I had a chance to work with a group for a whole week and we are really nicely sharing and having lots of fun. We used compasses and we had a task to put red fred in his bed! They really meant to put the red arrow between the 2 green lines for orienteering. We had a great time at grounds week.