Challenging ourselves and learning together as part of a family
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10th Oct 2022
This morning in forest school Over the forest school fire, melted chocolate, ice sculptures and made popcorn. Which of our changes were reversible and which ones were irreversible? Can I melt chocolate reverse the change? Then we used autumn leaves and seeds to make some outdoor art.
13th Jul 2022
Chestnut have been writing poems based on Paul Cookson’s poem ‘Where teachers keep their pets’. The children learnt about rhyming and thought of words to rhyme with the pet they had chosen. They published their own work.
27th Apr 2022
Chestnut learnt all about the author Michael Bond who wrote the Paddington stories. We read lots of the stories and also learnt about London including different landmarks that feature in the stories. To finish our unit we imagined we were writing a letter to our Aunt Lucy in Darkest Peru and told her all about […]
9th Mar 2022
Chestnut have been learning all about London. They were really interested in The Great Fire of London and have learnt so much about it! The children made houses at home and we reinacted the Great Fire during our forest school session. We put the houses close together and watched how the fire spread.
7th Dec 2021
We looked at different non-fiction texts to learn about owls. We learnt about the features of a non-fiction text and found them in different books. Then we wrote our own information poster about barn owls. During our work on portraits we learnt about the artist Picasso. We looked at the painting ‘Woman in a hat […]
22nd Oct 2021
This year’s picture is “Woman in a Hat and A fur Coat” by Pablo Picasso. Each class uses a picture for inspiration for their art work. Some of our classes created with own art work inspired by the Pablo Picasso artwork and others used his cubism style of art to inspire their own paintings. Cubism […]
5th Oct 2021
We had a fantastic day, re enacting the Battle of Hastings, playing Anglo Saxon games and devising our battle strategy!
27th Sep 2021
Chestnut went for a walk around the local area to look for human and physical features .
18th Sep 2021
This week in Forest School we are learning to identify the different trees on our school grounds. We used the different shapes of the leaves to identify the Oak , Sycamore, Lime and Ash tree on the KS1 playground. This is the Sycamore leaf which has five fingers.
8th Sep 2021
In Chestnut Class we have been getting to know each other as part of the new school year. We have lots of Harry Potter fans in our class so we had a wizarding theme. We told the class all about ourselves and also thought about what our patronus and boggert would be.
