We’ve been learning all about our senses in Bowfell Class. We started with a piece of popcorn!
We looked at it with our eyes, felt it with our fingers and smelt it using our nose. Then, the best bit, we got to taste it using our tongues and listened to sound it made with our ears.
We are going to be exploring all of our senses over the next week, in lots of different ways.
Year 5 have been developing their mental strategies to multiply and divide whole numbers and decimals by 10, 100, 1000! Tricky work, but thanks to Miss Taylor’s input, everyone is feeling much more confident!
Today, two special stick insects came to visit in Skiddaw class. They are called Spider Woman and Greedy and we learnt some interesting facts about them.
Did you know that stick insects eat bramble?
Did you know that all insects have six legs?
We are creating fact posters to display around school this week – keep an eye out for them!
The book bus visited today and everyone had the opportunity to choose a new book. We loved looking at all the non fiction, fiction and poetry books on offer and have lots more new books to share in school.
Bowfell Class have had a fantastic time at our first Dallam Gymnastics Lesson. We have been finding ways to travel up, over, along and through the equipment.
Mike, our teacher, was teaching us to jump and land properly. We used the spring board to help us get a little bit higher.
We also had a go at trying different rolls along the mats.
We have been learning off by heart a poem by Paul Cookson called Thank you for the Harvest. You might like to ask a member of Skiddaw class to recite it to you!
It mentions lots of wonderful fruit and vegetables so we decided to make some careful observational drawings. First we experimented with pencil and black pen, then we tried out the chalk pastels.
We really enjoyed looking at all the details and adding these to our drawings. Take a look at a selection of our work here, they’ll be more on display in our classroom.
We’ve been reading Oliver’s Vegetables this week and thinking about how we can look after our bodies and stay healthy.
Well done to our amazing football team who this afternoon battled the torrential rain to play in the Dallam Primary Cub Challenge! They played 3, securing victory in two and a draw in the third. Special congratulations to Kacper and Alfie who scored the winning goals and thanks to Mrs Cattermole; this afternoon’s team coach!
Last week, our Year 6 pupils enjoyed ‘Musical in a Day’ at QKS. They worked together and collaborated well with other local primary schools to jointly retell the story of Joseph through music, drama and dance. We also learnt how to fit a biblical tea-towel correctly. The children wowed their audience at the end of the afternoon. Well done everyone!
‘QKS was really exciting; we all enjoyed it. During the day, we sang, danced and acted. At the end of our day we performed our musical for our parents combining the three skills together.’ by Kacper.
Today Reception and Nursery had a go at Squiggle Whilst You Wiggle. We listened to ABC by the Jackson 5 and waved our ribbons up and down, in both hands, in time to the music. We then had a go on large pieces of paper. The children had a crayon in each hand and moved up and down the page in time the music. It’s great fun! Keep a look out for more ‘squiggling’ action!
