Lots of things that we've been up to recently

PE

Last half term we finished off our gymnastics sessions having an explore of the apparatus. In this session they had the extra challenge of  balancing cones on their heads.

And other various parts of the body.

Or even multiple cones, why not, bring on the challenge.

Sports Relief

The years 6 children hosted a sports relief competition for all the children in the school.

They had to complete a variety of times skills such as step ups, hoop skipping, speed jumping, and ball bouncing.

Professor Poopenstinken

Some of you may be closer acquainted since the introduction of maths club. But prior to that we were treated to a sneak preview session, where we played an exciting game of shape bingo.

BINGO!!!

Easter bonnets
A lovely tradition event took place this year, the Easter Bonnet parade. You all made wonderful hats, we were one of the best represented classes. We stood up on the stage together to show off our creations. 

Hopefully this will become a Sandridge School Tradition because the children had tons of fun.

Computing

We've started my favourite topic of the year in computing - coding! So far we've learnt a ton new vocabulary such as; ALGORITHM which is a fancy way of saying instructions for a computer, DEBUG which means to fix a mistake in an algorithm. 

In this session we built a model using Duplo, then took pictures at each step. Then taught another group how to make their model by talking them through the pictures.

We became robots and needed algorithms to complete a program.

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Music
We have been learning bring back my Bonny to me. Ms Kelly switched things up so the children had to stand and sit down on a certain letter. Can you work out which letter is the magic letter.
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week 2
week 3 - vs Year 2

Science

Now we're learning about animals including humans in science. We started of by learning about the parts of the human body. To do this we attacked a member of the class with post it notes. (No children were harmed in the making of this lesson)

English

We have just finished writing up our stories of Little Red Riding Hood. What great writing they did.

First we listened to the story, making a story map as we went along so we could recount the story. 

Try it at home, it starts with Once upon a time...(with an action like opening a book with your hands)

Then  we acted out the story using props.

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Certificates

Merit

16.3.18  Ottie 

13.4.18  Erin 

20.4.18 Adam A 

27.4.18 Lacey 

4.5.18 Nathaniel 

Sport

Hooriya

Hugh

Kaysie

Isla

Alyssa

Star Writer

Kye

Alyssa

Jack

Alyssa

Hooriya

Presentation

Hugh

Lacey

Nathan

Millie

Erin

Phabulous Phonics

Keenan

Aaron

Molly

Adam A

Aaron

Spring Walk

Art

We did some observational drawings today of signs that Spring has finally sprung. This is the start of our natural art topic, where we will compare our art works to that of Andy Goldsworthy. 

Today they had to look closely at natural objects and draw what they saw. They LOVED being outside and getting to use the Year 1 garden. 

Happy Easter

Good day! Hope everyone has had a lovely holiday. I've had a productive 2 weeks.

 I enjoyed doing some baking with my dad. We made some awesome cinnamon buns!

I did some singing with my band.

                                                    We went for a walk around Tatton Park

Made some table decorations 

And did a bunch of assessment and planning for the next term.

So I have this crazy idea for next half term, Summer 2. Doing some kind of sewing project. Last year we just sewed our names into cotton Aida. It focused mostly on the different types of stitches you can do; running stitch, cross stitch and backstitch. This year we are very good with our fine motor skills so I don't doubt they would be capable of these stitches. But I fancied doing something a bit more exciting and creative this year.

How about making their faces out of fabric. This means that it is more of a creative 3D art project rather than a purposeful design piece of work. However, it does mean that I may need to ask for some help for finding a variety of fabric and materials to construct the faces with. I'm going to have a look at what resources we have in the art cupboard and what I can order in. I've found some good felt for the faces on Hobbycraft so I'll pop to get those before half term. Let me know what you think, or how you may be able to help, sewing is HARD.

3 more sleeps. See you Monday