Mental Health Week starts next week. Even though there's an irony that it's also SATs week next week, we're going to be talking with the children about their mental health and introducing 5 things they can do to help themselves feel good. It also starts with YOU - the parent. I subscribe to Dr. Pooky's You Tube channel and she [...]
We didn't make Igneous rocks, or metamorphic either (few technical difficulties in doing them) but we did make sedimentary rocks. We layered sand and soil and squashed them very tightly. Peeling the pot and paper towel away, most of us were left with a crumbling mess... but we did have a few compacted sedimentary 'rocks!'
We all do Spotlights of some kind in our classes, from Class 1 doing a 'Show and Tell' to Year 6 running the whole assembly. Today we had a really interesting Spotlight from one of our year 5 girls, about a fox who visits the area. I knew about this already as some of our community were worried; she hasn't [...]
This week, the year 1's have started looking at multiplication. We started looking at repeated addition and counting in groups of 2s, 5s and 10s. Today, we started building arrays to help us multiply! We took cones and some chalk outside, and began solving multiplication sentences. It was tricky at first, but by the end we all had 'double thumbs [...]
