Year 1 have continued their learning all about our senses. This time they were exploring our sense of taste. They learnt that taste buds are cells on our tongues that allow us to perceive tastes, including sweet, salty, sour, bitter and savoury. The children decided that lemon tasted very sour on its own and was not very pleasant whilst chocolate was a firm favourite amongst most. The class were divided on marmite, either loving it or disliking it intensely!

Wrens have really enjoyed learning all about our senses during science. They have been exploring our sense of smell and trying to describe how different foods smell. They rated each food out of 10, with of course chocolate coming out as having the BEST smell ever! 

Parrots loved putting their maths learning into practice by creating fruit patterns. We then used our senses to describe the fruit as we ate it, using words such as juicy, soft, sweet, and bitter. 

For Black History Month, Year 1 have been learning about the importance of celebrating Black History Month and learning about Rosa Parks and how she made a difference. 

Children in Robins Class really enjoyed parents coming into school to read to them during our reading cafe. 

Year 1 have been learning how to compare amounts and numbers by using the comparison symbols <, =, > 

On Wednesday 16th Octover we walked along Clapham Road to visit St Martin's Church. We split into 4 groups and we were shown around the different areas of the church. The children listened carefully and asked questions about what they saw. They made links with what they have been learning in RE.

Woodpeckers and Wagtails have been lucky enough to have the opportunity this term to play an intrument called the toot. We have been busy practising each week and have made lots of progress already. We hope to be able to show you how well we can play as we continue to enjoy our weekly sessions throughout the term. 

We learned all about our senses during our topic of Autumn and we had a great time exploring our sense of taste! We made fruit kebabs by carefully cutting fruit and adding it to skewers before tasting them. We could tell Mrs Bliss our favourite fruits - lots of us said we loved them all!

Penguins have continued their learning about Autumn time this week by going on an Autumn walk around school to see what we could find. We took our 'Autumn checklists' with us and found lots of the items on the list. We were all disappointed not to see any squirrels this time!

Wagtails have been busy learning and recapping place value in maths. We have done lots of different practical activities to help consolidate our knowledge and we have been really impressed by the progress made by all of the children already this term!

Year 4 prepared to be evacuated at Holdenby House. Pupils did a number of activities ; 

• They learnt about the weekly rations and helped Mrs North in the kitchen preparing seasonal wartime food.
• Helped Mrs Fortescue-Oliver with her knitting and rag rugs for her Make-Do-and-Mend Drive.
• The Major showed us all how to keep safe -  In the Air Raid Shelter. 

The children in Puffins have been learning about Autumn. We made pictures by rolling conkers around in paint. We have also made autumn trees, hedgehogs, and prints with leaves. 

Penguins have had a great start to the week! We are learning all about Autumn time and we have had great fun exploring all of the Autumn items we collected over the weekend. 

We are looking forward to doing lots of Autumn crafts this week and going on an Autumn walk around school. 

Kingfisher class have worked really hard to produce some watercolour designs that include Mayan symbols and images that hold personal meaning to them.

The children in Puffins acted out the story of the Gingerbread Man.  "run run as fast as you can" shouted the Gingerbread Man.

In Year 4 we made Spitfire planes, using pegs and lollipop sticks as part of our Make do and Mend session whilst learning about World War 2. 

Woodpeckers are thoroughly enjoying their topic on the Stone Age. They have been looking at cave art, investigating what prehistoric people ate and also taken on the roles of hunters and gatherers out in the playground.

Woodpeckers have been enjoying their art this week. As part of their topic on prehistoric art, they learnt how to sketch the outlines of various animals. In Maths, they have completed their work on place value and can now partition values in different ways.

On Friday, we had our reading cafe where we welcomed families into the school to read with the children. The children loved it and were motivated to read a selection of books to the adults. 

Thank you to everyone who came. We hope to see you again soon when we have other events in school.