This week, Year 5 have been reading ‘Noah Barleywater runs away’ which is an adventure fairytale story about a boy called Noah who takes an untrodden path through a forest which leads him on a very unusual journey. We have been using our inference skills this week to be detectives and use clues to help us to figure out what will happen next.

We have enjoyed reading and writing poetry over the past two weeks. The children loved exploring how layout can affect a poems rhythm and meaning.

In maths, we are learning how to add and subtract 4-digit numbers. We have been using both mental and written strategies such as the column method.

In science, we are looking at all living things. This week we focused on life cycle of different animals.

In art, we have been focusing on using lines to represent things seen, imagined and remembered. We have been drawing and developing artists techniques.

Macaw class have begun their swimming lessons and have enjoyed building their confidence and skills. Some of the children have even taken a deep dive!

Year 3 really enjoyed their trip to the British Museum - especially the walk from the museum back to Charing Cross!

Year 5 Macaw class @FP have been learning to write poems and all the different ways that words can be used to create poems. They have also been learning about Ancient Greece. Isabel made some really interesting comparisons between a Greek democracy and the UK demorcracy. Read her notes below

Year 2 enjoyed sharing their 'This is Me' acrostic poems with Reception today. Hopefully we have some future @youngwriterscw competition winners! #youngwriters 

This week at FP in our English lessons, Chaffinch class have been taking inspiration from the natural world, and exploring the school garden to generate ideas for poetry.

YR3 Starling class at FP, have been looking at the purpose of writing and how we write at Forster Park. Our first writing project was a picture book which we shared with Year One and a memoir (memory) about a strong emotion felt. Check out our work in the pictures. We have now started a new writing project called 'The Natural World.' The final outcome will be a poem all about nature.
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Nursery are loving our mud kitchen. Ms Poulsom has given the kitchen a spruce up ready for the endless amount of play that will be enjoyed. We cannot wait to see what dishes are going to be cooked up next. Check out our messy pizzas that we’ve been making and sharing with our friends. “Oh wait I forgot the salad”. 🍕🥗💜🌿🌸

This term we are reading ‘Baby Aliens got my Teacher’! We think Ms Murphy is secretly an alien. What do you think?

We have started our Viking learning journey where we looked at what it was like to be a Viking and how they lived. 

In maths, we are learning all about our numbers to 1000. We have represented, partitioned and are now putting them onto a number line. 

Outside in the garden, we are getting all our ideas for our nature poem.

In Year 1 Hummingbird class @FP, we have settled into our classroom and routines well. We have started daily supported reading and this takes place every morning between 9 and 9.30 am. In daily supported reading the children are grouped according to their reading ability and share a book with an adult.

We need to start reading on time so it is important that we complete our early morning work and register promptly before 9am. We ask parents to be on time and say goodbye to their children at the door. Children are now being encouraged to be independent and organise their own resources now they are in Year 1.

We have been looking at different stories and talking about what stories are like. We have noticed the key features of a book and sharing ideas about our own stories. We are now writing our own stories and becoming authors.

We have been exploring paints and colour mixing and have created some amazing self portraits. Click on the link below to view our self portrait gallery:  

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Year 4, Chaffinch class, went to read their picture books to Year 1. They produced these over two days as part of our new English writing launch project.