Spring 2 African Topic
Our Spring 2 Topic focused on Africa. We located the continent Africa using a range of maps, and then focused on the country Kenya. We learnt biomes, specifically the Savannah, the largest grassland in the world. We found out what the vegetation is like and what animals live there. We also…
Ancient Egyptian Art
In Spring 1, Jaguars looked at the artist Clarice Cliff. We evaluated some of her art work, deciding on what we really liked about her pieces. We then looked at some Ancient Egyptian artefacts. We decided on making our own clay plates using inspiration from both Clarice Cliff’s art work and…
Forest School
We love Forest School on Thursday afternoons. During this time we have created our own Forest School games, made butterflies using smashed berries and leaves to add colour, created our own Iron Age Forts, made creative images using natural resources, we have listened to the birds and watched the…
Science: Rocks & Soil and Forces
Take a look at some of the Science we have been doing in Jaguars class. From investigating different rocks and soils to using starburst when learning about the rock cycle. We also carried out an investigation on how objects move on different surfaces when learning about push and pull forces. We…
Roald Dahl Day
We LOVED celebrating Roald Dahl day. In Jaguars classroom we focused on The Twits. We created a ‘pin the food on the beard’ game, made our own worm spaghetti inspired meals and created our own Roly Poly birds.
Autumn 1 Stone Age
Jaguars class really enjoyed our Stone Age~ Iron Age topic. We loved acting out the main events during these periods, learning about the famous Stone Henge, looking and different artefacts and most of all, meeting Stone Age Ben!
Using IPads and Laptops
Tigers class have been adding words an images to creat postcards from Victorians on holiday. They created pictures using Green-screen that they have saved and uploaded to their postcards. The children used Purple Mash to create the postcards.
Victorian Holidays
The children looked at a mystery suitcase, photographs and artefacts to make deductions, predictions and to share prior knowledge about living and holidaying in Victorian times.
Textiles- Fossil inspired art
After learning about Mary Anning, the children produced some beautiful textile art that was inspired by fossils. Firstly they investigated the shapes of fossils by creating images from natural objects. They then used pencil to create lines to mimic fossil shapes. Their textile pieces were created…
Moving water
Over the past two weeks we have been investigating moving water, in forest schools. The children firstly used pipes and tubes to transport water from one container to another. This week we looked at how water could be moved without us physically touching it. They investigating adding objects…