Latest News
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YR2 Flamingo and Swan Class News @FP
Fri 15 Mar 2024Swan and Flamingo @FP have been learning about L.S Lowry and have been exploring line and shape to recreate some of his artwork.
We have also been writing our own picture books. We were inspired by ‘Traction Man’ by Mini Grey and we wrote a story about a toy going on an exciting adventure around the house.
Our stories are in our classroom libraries for us to read together. (Writing By Brensi and Elyon)
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YR1 Dove Class News @FP
Fri 15 Mar 2024This week in Dove class @FP we have been learning about an artist called Ramona Pintea. She creates amazing colourful art and uses crowns a lot in her work. We are Kings and Queens so made our own versions.
In our maths lessons we have been learning to count in 10s. We have been using dienes to partition numbers. Ask us how many tens and ones in numbers to 50 and we will be able to answer you! Also help us to practise our ten times table at home.
In English we have been reading the book ‘The Queen’s Knickers’ by Nicholas Allan. We have been busy making missing posters and thank you cards.
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World Book Day ...
Thu 07 Mar 2024The children have had a great time today dressing up as their favourite book characters for World Book Day. Check out some of their photos here:
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Nightingale Class News @FP
Tue 05 Mar 2024In Nightingale class @FP, we have had a great start to the term so far. In maths we are looking at fractions and have been matching pictures to unit fractions. We have also been getting creative and making rainbow paintings and doing a lot of construction with cardboard and the wooden giant Jenga bricks – Alex constructed his own chair. We have also had a great time welcoming our new friend Kaiden who has settled in well and made some friends already.
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Banji Alexander
Tue 05 Mar 2024Thank you so much to the author Banji Alexander, for coming along to Forster Park and inspiring our children during their World Book Week.
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REC Puffin Class News @FP
Tue 05 Mar 2024In Reception, children have been reading the story ‘Supertato’ by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet and learning all about the caped potato superhero who is fighting to save the world from arch-villian – Evil Pea!
The children arrived to school on Tuesday and witnessed a crime scene! The evil pea had captured some poor vegetables and had plastered them to the wall! Who will defeat this escaped PEA? The children could not leave Supertato to fight this battle alone so began to make their own super veggie squad to help defeat the evil pea.
The children wrote about their super veggies and gave them special powers!
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YR5 Magpie Class News @FP
Mon 04 Mar 2024As Spring starts to appear with the blooming blossom trees, YR5 Magpie class @FP have enjoyed learning about the modernist artist Georgia O’Keefe and her nature inspired art. We have explored drawing flowers in her style using pencils – take a look at our work! We will continue to create art in the style of O’Keefe and I know it is going to look great.
In maths, Year 5 have started the topic ‘Decimals and Percentages’. So far this term, we have looked at decimals to two decimals places and their equivalent fractions. We will use this place value knowledge to move onto ordering, comparing and rounding decimals.
Our focus in English has been biographies. The class have enjoyed learning about the lives of inspirational people and are now focusing on how to share our information in an engaging, thoughtful way.
Our topic question in geography is ‘How is the UK different to the Americas?’. Magpie students have liked using maps and information texts to learn about the North and Central American countries and their regions.
Year 5’s RE topic is Christianity where we have learnt about The Trinity and Jesus’ 12 Disciples. The children had lots of thoughtful questions and liked showing their understanding through drawings. We will also learn about the Easter story as we head towards the Easter holiday.
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YR3 Parakeet Class News @FP
Thu 29 Feb 2024In YR3 Parakeet class @FP, we have been really enjoying our learning.
We all know you should not play with electricity. Well. Don’t tell anyone, but that is exactly what we have been doing. We worked as a team to investigate the brightness of a bulb in a circuit. (Team work does make the dream work). Children in Parakeet class have been really engaged in conducting investigations about electricity, would you like to know the results of our investigations, then speak to a child in Parakeet class to know all about it.
Art is our passion. Remember our Manga? Well we are learning about the art of Peter Jones. Look at two examples of our analysis of one of his pieces of art. Later on we will be creating our own painting in the style of this artist.
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YR6 Eagle Class News @FP
Wed 28 Feb 2024WW2 Poetry in Eagle class @FP.
We have further developed our poetry skills through writing poems about our current history topic, World War II.
We have looked at what impact the structure, imagery and vocabulary can have on the reader. We are very pleased to have included most figurative language in our poems.
Using information about the Blitz, we have produced silhouette art. We have used a range of media for our foreground and background to create great war-based art pieces. -
YR6 Hawk Class News @FP
Thu 22 Feb 2024This half term the children in Hawk class @FP are continuing their history topic of World War II and they have been fascinated by the information they have learned. They have embraced the topic throughout a range of disciplines including reading, design and technology and art.
We have learnt to empathise with the characters in the moving novel, ‘Goodnight Mister Tom’. Children are able to explain the growth of both the figures of Mister Tom and William. They are understanding the history of the war through this tale, bringing to life the ideas of the Anderson Shelter, rationing as well as the huge changes that the evacuees and their guardians had to overcome.
Propaganda images used throughout the second world war have been a great starting point for understanding how governments use language and repeat information through sources to create a joint feeling in the country. They were able to see the similarities and differences between the information used in the ‘40s and the recent government issued-posters and advertising of the 2020s.