1 month ago
Posted on 04th Oct 2026 by Emma Noden

Testing for opaque materials

We turned off all the lights in our classroom on Wednesday afternoon and tested different materials to see if they were opaque, translucent or transparent.

1 month ago
Posted on 04th Oct 2026 by Emma Noden

Painting techniques

We used the pencil sketches that we created at Hodnet Hall Gardens last week and added paint – using our fingers!

1 month ago
Posted on 27th Sep 2026 by Emma Noden

Mathematics this week

This week in our mathematics lessons we have been learning about addition strategies. We have been adding three numbers by looking for number facts that we know within the additions such as number facts to make 5 or 10 or doubles. We finished our week with a practical lesson looking to make a whole ten on a tens frame and then seeing how many more there were, we used our knowledge of place value to help us with this maths. As one of our challenges this week we have been recapping on odd and even numbers and sorting numbers according to whether they were odd or even.

1 month ago
Posted on 27th Sep 2026 by Emma Noden

Ball skills – rolling

Until half term we are focusing on ball skills, this week we focused on the skill of rolling. We practised rolling around cones and learning to aim at a target when we are rolling the ball.

1 month ago
Posted on 27th Sep 2026 by Emma Noden

Retelling a story – talk for writing immersion

We created pictures of the setting of our story Kassim and the Greedy Dragon and then also created puppets of the characters. We used these to retell the story and recorded each other doing this on the class i pads.

1 month ago
Posted on 27th Sep 2026 by Emma Noden

Art at Hodnet Hall gardens

We have been inspired by Monet’s landscape art of his garden in Giverny, France. We visited Hodnet Hall gardens and sketched the landscape there.

2 months ago
Posted on 23rd Sep 2026 by Emma Noden

Spine poetry

As part of this English unit of study we created spine poetry about a dragon. We examined pictures of a dragon and then noted down 5 things we could see in the picture. Then we thought of adjectives that we could use to describe the things we had noted down. We learnt about the use of commas to separate adjectives.

2 months ago
Posted on 23rd Sep 2026 by Emma Noden

Learning about Scotland

This week in our geography lessons we have been learning about Scotland. We located the main cities on a map using an atlas and then created posters including: the national flower, the national animal, 2 physical features and human features around the national flag.

2 months ago
Posted on 20th Sep 2026 by Emma Noden

Searching for materials

In science this week we went on a search for materials both in and outside our classroom.

2 months ago
Posted on 20th Sep 2026 by Emma Noden

A warning tale

This week in English we started a new Talk for Writing unit – a warning story. We found clues to a dragons egg and then made our own toilet roll fire breathing dragons. We are learning the story Kassim and the Greedy Dragon using a text map to help.