In 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. 

Thank you so much to the author Banji Alexander, for coming along to Forster Park and inspiring our children during their World Book Week.

In 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!

As 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.

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