In 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. 

WW2 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.

This 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.

Starling class @FP had a wonderful time at the Natural History Museum on Monday. Linked to their geography learning all about natural disasters, they looked at volcanoes and earthquakes. Did you know super volcanoes are 1000 times bigger than normal volcanoes? 

Year 3 and 4 have been reading their sensory poems to each other this afternoon. 

"I wrote it all about my special doll." - Stephanie

"Mine was about my book about precious gems." - Rafael

The children had a visit from the wolf of our story of the week ‘Little Red RIding Hood’. The children from puffin class used the ‘hot seating’ method to understand more about the wolf and his motives.

 

Hot-seating focuses closely on a character and enables motivation to be explored. It is also a good way of exploring the gaps in a character’s story. Hot-seating involves the class in asking questions of someone in role as a character, fictional or historical, who sits in the ‘hot-seat’. 

 

“The wolf isn’t so bad. He was just trying to play with Little Red Riding Hood. He just needs to learn what’s the right and wrong way to play games because tricks aren’t funny.” Rihanna 

In Year 4, Chaffinch class @FP, have been learning how to play cricket with coach Matt. They've been practising their catching, bowling, batting and fielding skills and have even played a few matches. We'll be continuing to build on these skills after the half term.

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The children in Hummingbird class @FP have been reading traditional stories and alternative versions. We read ‘The Three Little Pigs’ and the alternative version ‘The Three Little Wolves’ and ‘The Big Bad Pig’. We wrote our own versions, remembering to use capital letters, spaces and fullstops.  

We also read ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ and the alternative version the ‘Ghanaian Goldilocks’. In this version they ate Fu Fu instead of porridge so we made some Fu Fu and tried it. We then wrote our own story  thinking about the different characters and how traditional stories have three characters, designing our own characters based on our interests.

Finally we read ‘The Gingerbread Man’ and the alternative version ‘The Runaway Chapatti’. 

Do you have any traditional stories that you remember being read as a child?

In Hummingbird class we have been using remote control toys. We have been programming them to move towards our friends.  

This term in nursery have been learning about animals in our world. We have particularly liked reading the stories about Elmer & Rainbow Fish; looking at different colours and shapes and working collaboratively to produce some amazing art work. Check out our learning journey with all our fabulous work this term . 🐻🐘🌈🐠🐳

The Museum of London are working with Year 5 to deliver ‘My London Story’, a project aiming to understand young people’s experiences of London today.

As a museum that tells the story of the capital and its people from its first settlers to modern times, we want to add new objects and stories about the present day.

‘My London Story’ is an exciting Arts Council England funded project that want children from a wide range of backgrounds to document their lives in the city. The museum hope to use these materials to represent the diverse lived experiences of London’s children in future exhibitions, displays and programmes. The whole year group watched a theatre performance from some very cool actors. They retold individual stories of children growing up in London with different lifestyles, problems and diversities.

“It was very entertaining and it had lots of emotions and feelings that I could relate to” Zahara

“I enjoyed that it was quite diverse and humorous because of their Jamaican accents” Blake

Keep an eye out for more of our collaborative work with the museum coming soon!