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Curriculum Newsletters 2024-2025

Todau we celebrated Earth Day! We enjoyed a sensory story, nature walk, planting, sensory tray exploration and crafts.

In English, we have been learning about travel brochures, information leaflets and posters. Last week we made information posters about the park and today some of us went on a trip to Townley park!

In ICT, we have been exploring digital art looking at different paint apps, tools and how to use these.

Today we celebrated St. Patrick's day and did a variety of activities. We enjoyed some messy sensory trays and making minty shamrock shakes!

This week we celebrated French Day, we flew to France, learnt all about the different traditions and landmarks, tasted different French food and made some crepes!

In English, we have been learning about poems with a narrative and facts about animals from Alaska. We enjoyed some role playing, sensory trays and using the VR headsets.

We had lots of fun celebrating Chinese New Year last week in Herons Class!

In English, we have been learning about "The owl and the pussycat" and all about different animals from Canada and Alaska.

This week in Science, we have been exploring animals including humans. We looked at different body parts and how the heart works.

We have enjoyed doing lots of winter and Christmas activities over the past couple of weeks. Here are a few pictures of us celebrating the festive season.

In our focus English lessons, we have been looking at the story of Oliver Twist and some of us made some of Oliver's favourite food - gruel!

We enjoyed some Pudsey activities to celebrate Children in need day!

We celebrated two special events - Remembrance day and Bonfire night with lots of different activities.

In History, we have been looking at Vikings. We have enjoyed learning lots of new facts and making Viking necklaces, hats and shields.

In English, we have been looking at explanation texts and have made lots of food centered around our topic of Volcanoes. We made some lava flow smoothie drinks and volcano crispy cakes.

In science, we looked at static electricity. We explored lots of electrical household switch toys and made some static butterflies and tested these with a balloon on our hair!

In maths, we have been looking at measurement of capacity today and we enjoyed exploring with different media. We looked at full, half/ part full, empty, more and less.

In our English focus lessons, we have been looking at explanation texts. We made 'lava cakes' linking to our Volcano topic and wrote all about how to make them using pictures to sequence and symbols to match!

in PSHE, we looked at rules. We followed the clues to find the hidden rules outside in the woodlands and then we made a magical rules potion adding ingredients for each rule we chose for our class. We had fun watching it explode!

In English we have been looking at explanation texts and linking it to our topic of volcanoes. We followed instructions to make a yummy volcano pizza!

In French we have been learning "all about me". We have looked at how old we are and when our birthdays are, our favourite colours, who our family are and where we live.

In PE, we have been looking at different ways to move. We have skipped, jumped, crawled, tip toed and bounced!

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