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!

Children @FP today have really enjoyed 'numbers day', they have all come to school, wearing numbers.  They have taken part in challenges such as: number hunt, where they have had to count up items and find certain numbers around the school.  As we speak they are in a celebration assembly - the best numbers hat will be chosen and the winner will have to dance down the middle of the audience to receive their prize from Mr Bond!  It has been lovely to see everyone enjoying themselves and taking part in the number challenges.

This week in Dove class @FP we completed our own versions of an artist called Wassily Kandinsky.

We enjoyed looking at his abstract artwork and the colours and tones that he used as well as using the water colour palettes.

We have been learning about traditional tales and this week we read ‘The Ghanaian Goldilocks’ by Dr Tamara Pizzoli. We have been looking at features of traditional tales and next week are writing our own. Ask us about our ideas at home! We spoke about Ghana and where it was. We tried some traditional food from Ghana made by our lovely Mrs Abel.

In sewing club @FP, we have been really enjoying sewing and stuffing our teddies. Here are Bubbles the Owl, Valentine the Badger, aswell as the wonderful fox and hedgehog.
Well done all 👏

Flamingos have been learning about the artist Gustav Klimt and have been exploring his use of pattern. Next week we get to paint our own pieces of art work with gold paint! 

We have also been reading fairy tales and we will be writing our own fairy tale which will be in our school library! Innaya’s story has three mermaids. I wonder what will happen to them?

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Year 2 Swan class @FP, have begun generating and developing ideas and mock-ups of bridges they can make for the ‘Three Billy Goats Gruff’. They used skills such as cutting, measuring and sticking in a variety of different ways.

We have been doing dance in PE this half term and exploring different African dance moves. Year 2 are now in the process of creating and sequencing their own African dance which they will perform at the end of half term.

Puffin Class have had a fantastic week. Our focus text was The Three Billy Goats Gruff. The children retold the story using props they made. The children were inspired by our use of makaton and wanted to learn signs to aid them in retelling their story to their friends. They worked together to build bridges and work together to design a bridge strong enough to hold various objects.

We even had a visit from the Troll himself! The children asked him various questions about his life, the foods he likes to and where he lives. No children were harmed from this visit.

We have also really enjoyed our phonics dice game and messy play.

YR5 Magpie c;ass @FP have had a busy start to the Spring term. We are very excited to be attending swimming lessons on Mondays and some of us are already making great progress!

In Maths, we have been focusing on adding and subtracting mixed numbers that have different denominators. We focused on neat presentation to support our methods. We are now going to start looking at formal multiplication methods.

For English, we have been inspired by recent celebrity memoirs and decided to write our own. The children have shown great maturity when speaking about their most meaningful and life changing memories. We have focused on painting pictures with our words to inspire empathy from the reader.

The children have loved learning about Space (specifically the Earth, Sun and Moon) in Science and how these link with Time Zones in Geography. These subjects have helped us to think about how the world works and the importance of our solar system.

Year 5 were introduced to ceramicist Peggy Bjerkan who creates abstract masks in Art. We researched her work and have started to plan our own masks inspired by her work. They children especially enjoyed finding ways to incorporate nature into their designs – just like Peggy!