Class News

Ducklings

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Recently, Ducklings have been learning about different celebrations around the World. This week, they have focused on Chinese culture and the Lunar new year. Ducklings have made a dragon together, fans to use when dancing and have been looking at the different animals linked to Chinese New Year. Ducklings have really impressed us all this week with their creativity, thinking skills and communication skills. Well done Ducklings!

Robins - Reception

In Robin Class, we have been exploring our third enquiry of the year: homes reflect the people who live in them and where they are located.

We have been looking very closely at our own homes and trying to identify what makes them the same and different from somebody else's.

It has been very interesting to see the different types of homes that people live in.

The Road Safety team came in to explain the importance of keeping safe when out and about. We know you must always:

stop

look

listen

think

hold hands and cross the road

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Sparrows - Year 1

Sparrow Class have had a very busy term so far delving into our inquiry Communities are improved when people work together. To help us understand the importance of communities, we have been reading the book Leaf and writing about the poor polar bear who became lost, far away from his home in the Arctic.

From tree planting in our local community to building our own (model) homes, the children have been learning about what is in their community and how they can help make it even better. We have also been comparing old toys to modern toys to see how much they have changed. The children thoroughly enjoyed investigating toys such as spinning tops and pull-along animals as well as the much noisier new toys which they are more familiar with.

Blackbirds - Year 2

By Ezra, Poppy, Vesta and Adesewa.

Last week, Blackbirds helped plant trees that can live for thousands of years! This makes us really happy and excited! All the trees are native British trees. We were planting the trees for the Queen's Green Canopy. We are really proud to get to do that. Planting trees helps our environment and our community.

It was really wet and cold but that didn't stop us! We can't wait to walk back to Shepway Green to see how big the trees grow!

In art, we have been learning about sketching and we have been using our drawing skills to draw landmarks in London. We have also been using our Geography skills to find places in London on Google Earth. We have used our skills in History to make a timeline of the Great Fire of London. In Science, we tested materials to see which material was strong, waterproof and flexible to make a good bucket to carry water and put out a fire.

All of these areas of learning link to the pupils' current inquiry, 'Significant events improve understanding of the natural world'.

Woodpeckers - Year 3

Woodpeckers are having an incredibly interesting and fun term learning about volcanoes. The book that we have been focusing on is Escape from Pompeii. We have been learning about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and understanding what it was like to experience the eruption. We have been extending our vocabulary to describe the eruption of the volcano, to help us with our imagery, we used our artistic skills to draw Mount Vesuvius.

Within science we have been classifying rocks and looking at how they can be grouped. We conducted a science experiment to understand the rock cycle! We used heat and pressure from our hands to mold the sedimentary rocks into metamorphic. (This made our hands a little bit sticky!) Miss Brandon then asked us to drop our metamorphic rocks into the pan, to allow the heat to transform our rocks into magma!! We then realised that the rock cycle links to volcanoes. We left the magma to cool so it would be able to turn into igneous rock. From cracking the igneous rock, we started back at the beginning of the rock cycle with them being sedimentary rocks!

Next week, we plan to design and create a volcano using recyclable materials such as newspapers, plastic bottles and some cardboard. After this, we are going to become scientists and make the volcano erupt!

Stay tuned for lots of videos and pictures next time!

Blue Jays - Year 4

Blue Jays term has been very busy so far and it culminated this week with our trip to the O2 Arena to perform as part of the Young Voices choir. We had an incredible experience and all our rehearsing both lyrics and dance moves paid off. There were so many highlights including travelling on a 'luxury' coach, singing Proud with Heather Small, dancing and singing with Andy, the Urban Strides dance group and the Beatbox Collective! Every child performed with confidence, sang with all their might and showed their social skills in a different environment.

We have been developing our inquiry into 'People migrate and explore in response to opportunities and challenges'. The children have shown great engagement, asked some really insightful questions and made thoughtful observations which we have used to shape the direction of our inquiry. We have discussed the migration of people due to war and spoken about the war in Ukraine and Somalia and focused on why the Romans chose to migrate and invade Britain and the impact of they have had on modern Britain. We have used our historical, geographical and art skills alongside our research skills during this inquiry. We have looked at when the Romans invaded and timelines, used maps and atlases to find out where the Romans came from and to and have developed our sketching skills when looking at Roman arms, armour and sandals.

Kingfishers - Year 5

Kingfisher class have had a very busy term so far. They have finished their Central Idea, People's access to their rights vary around the world, where the looked at the Tudor and the Victorian era. Kingfishers thoroughly enjoyed reading the book, Holes by Louis Sachar and were able to make links with the theme of this book and human rights.

To conclude that central idea, we looked at the word 'Advocacy', what this looks like and how it is connected to human rights.

We are now onto our new central idea, Geography can impact the location of human settlement, where we are looking at the book, Blood on the River.

This term, we have begun our Young Engineer Vehicles Project Programme. During this, we are covering a theory part where we are learning all about the history of cars, how they are evolving to be better for the climate due to their current emissions. After the theory sessions, we will be building our very own battery-powered vehicle with the hopes of being involved in a celebration event in Canterbury, where they will get the opportunity to showcase and test their vehicles on several challenges.

Chaffinch - Year 6

In year 6, we have been reading the book 'The Hunger Games'. It is really interesting and we are on Part 2 now about The Game. The book describes how their government decides how people live their lives.

Our Central Idea is about How Governments Influence the lives of people which is why we are reading the Hunger Games. We have learned about many different types of government all around the world. We used our geographical skills to search for different countries, and then we used our research skills to find out what type of governance that country had.

Last week, we had a visit from Francis from Reform, Resotre, Respect Charity. He shared his life story with us and that all consequences have actions and abouut his time in prison. He is a very motivational speaker and we have learned a lot from his workshop.

This week, we also attended Young Voices in the O2 and it was absolutely amazing! Once the concert started, we all got little torches to shine and we started singing our hearts out! Many of us have never been a part of an experience that huge before and it was incredible!

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