Amazing Landscapes

This term Year 4 have been learning about Landscape. We have compared the landscape of Winchester with that of The Lake District. The children have painted in watercolour, views from Winchester Cathedral and of the landscape in The Lakes.

Mr Oras, our Finnish student, has shown us lots of pictures of Finland, and explained that there is also a Lake District in the southern area of Finland. Mr Oras told us about ice skating on the lakes during the winter months.

Year 1 - Dinosaur Fun!

This half term, we have been learning about dinosaurs. A lot of our work was based on the story ‘Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp’. In PE we made up a dance using some of the dance moves from the story, including the Brontosaurus Bump, the Triassic Twist, the Raptor Rap and the Jurassic Jump.

We even hosted our own Dinosaur Stomp Party and wrote invitations for Hedgehog class who joined us! In the story, the dinosaurs drank ‘sweet swamp water punch’, so we had a go at making our own using lemonade and lime squash, to make it green and bubbly, and blueberries and grapes to make it lumpy. We even used strawberry laces for the wiggly worms! If you go to the KS1 library, you will see our display of artwork based on the story.

We also made our own class non-fiction book about dinosaurs. It is filled with facts and pictures about dinosaurs, and even has its own front cover, contents page, glossary and blurb.  We are very proud of all the hard work we put into the book, so if you would like to come and have a look at it, you can see it in the school office.

A Visit from the School Nurse

The school nurse visited Squirrels to talk to us about handwashing. She showed us how germs get on our hands and how they spread using a glitter bug. Next she showed us how to wash our hands so that we could all be germinators!

We were lucky to have real bandages and a stethoscope donated by Joshua’s Grandma, who is a real nurse. She also came to tell us about her job as a children’s nurse.

She showed us how to put on a sling if you have hurt your arm. Squirrels set up a role play hospital for everyone to practise being doctors, nurses and patients.

Rose trying on the special gloves

Dr. Harrison

Dr. Logan bandaging Mrs Homewood's arm

Dr. Seb treating Leo

Freya writing down appointments and the medicine for Robbie and Edward.

Year 1 - Awesome Art!

This term the children in Year 1 have been learning about different artists and their unique styles. They have then created their own artwork in that style.

The children used thin brushes and water colours to create the sunset scene behind the Birch trees.

The children were inspired by the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh and Wassily Kandinsky. They particularly liked the style of Van Gogh and could talk about the way in which he put paint on the paper.

The children painted wheat fields and their interpretations of space in the style of Van Gogh.

Year 1 - Gurdwara Visit

Year 1 pupils visited the Gurdwara in Southampton as part of their Religious Education topic on special places.

In the Gurdwara they gave free food to all the visitors.

Year 5 - French Lesson

On 18th July 2017 year 5 had a french lesson on directions.

The task was to hide a rubber ring and then write a set of instructions in french for another group to find it. All four house groups worked co-operatively and all managed to eventually find a ring. The vocabulary was all new but they worked well to create a set of instructions and then to decipher them. Some rings were relatively easy to find but others were extremely well hidden!

Well done Year 5!

Year 5 - Planning a Sports Festival

As part of our “Shaping Up” topic this half term, Year 5 have been busy planning a sports festival based around some of the sports that feature at the Olympic Games.  Year 5 researched the history and the rules of different sports and wrote persuasive brochures and detailed sets of instructions to encourage others to try new sports that they might be less familiar with like Handball. They designed demonstration stations to model how to practice the techniques of the sport.

Year 5 invited Year 4 to the festival where they got to play the sports together and take part in small sided games. Everyone enjoyed themselves, learnt a lot and showed super co-operation skills!