“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

We were delighted to welcome the Young Shakespeare Company into school this week to perform A Midsummers Night’s Dream. Children from Year 2-6 all took part and there was plenty of audience participation and laughs. Exposing our children to the experience of watching plays being performed is very important and if your child’s interest was peaked then there are child friendly version of Shakespeare’s plays to read and listen to on our new SORA app.

Maple

Maple class have continued to explore our class MAPS book, filled with beautiful illustrations which highlight similarities and differences in physical features, landmarks, animals, vehicles and much more! They have been hunting in teams for parts of maps before sorting them, creating their own maps, building puzzles of physical features, taking Paddington for a walk around London maps and even becoming pirates.

Rowan

Maths and Marbles! 

This week Rowan class have made some amazing marble art based on the sea for their topic lessons. They used a combination of blues, greens and white to create wave patterns by rolling marbles in paint and creating marks on the paper. They have also been amazing with their maths, starting their multiplication and division unit. They have been doing fantastically and are making great links between repeated addition and multiplication. 

Birch

To celebrate the start of our new topic, 'Rocks, Relics and Rumbles', as well as out new writing text, 'The Rock Factory', children in Birch Class have enjoyed a crafty week! On Monday, they used written and pictorial instructions to make their own crystals, and evaluated the effectiveness of the instructions given. On Tuesday, we discovered different rock types and how they are formed. We had great fun creating sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks out of chocolate; we enjoyed eating them at the end of the day!