Happy Lunar New Year

Maple

Children in Maple Class love learning about how their brains work. In this week's 'My Happy Mind' session, they were learning how their brains make new connections when they learn. To illustrate this, the children started to make brain hats with different coloured 'connections' to show learning and growth. 

Maple Class have also been finding out about Chinese New Year. They have made beautiful lanterns, mosaics, tried writing their names and numbers in Chinese and heard about the different activities that are used to celebrate this important even. Today, we enjoyed using chopsticks to try Chinese food including prawn crackers, Singapore noodles and fortune cookies. 

Birch

This week, Birch continued their 'Chinese Lanterns' unit in music and started using glockenspiels to play the pentatonic scale. They worked really hard to remember which notes they needed to play and what order they needed to play them in. 

Sycamore

Sycamore class had a great opportunity to work with our caterers (Caterlink) and make pizzas. We took part in a game and a quiz all about the different food groups and then got to choose our toppings and make our dream pizzas! Best of all, we then got to eat them! 

Aspen

In Aspen class's PSHE lessons the children were learning about head injuries, they learnt about mild and severe, how to assess for both and how to administer first aid. They also took part in a scenario task where they had to assess who had suffered a head injury, how it might have been obtained and each character's role in the accident.

Elm

In music, Elm class have been learning about calypso music and are practising the typical 8 beat rhythm with added embellishments. In Geography, they also been exploring all the different land features that can be seen in the Antarctic and reminding themselves that polar bears live in Arctic and Penguins live in the Antarctic. This links in well with their current text: ‘Shackelton’s Journey.’