A Visit from a Tudor Queen

We had a visit from a Tudor Queen who told us what life was like as a Queen a long time ago, we also had a pretend Tudor feast!

Remembrance

Today on Remembrance day, we held our daily assembly at 10.45am and included a two minutes silence at 11 o’clock. Many of our children had participated in Remembrance services or parades on Remembrance Sunday and were very knowledgeable and respectful as expected.

We watched this BBC clip about Remembrance. 

We watched this video in silence during our two minutes silence.

Our Y5/6 children who were swimming held their two minutes silence at the pool side.

This afternoon our Reception children walked to the Cenotaph to lay a handmade wreath and children in other classes marked the occasion through class discussion, reading and art.

Learning about Diwali

We had a wonderful few days learning about the celebration Diwali. We learnt about the story behind Diwali of the Evil Ravana who represents dark and Rama and Sita who represent light. During the three days we learnt about how children who are in the Hindu culture celebrate and prepare for the festival. We made sweets called coconut barfi, measuring and mixing carefully. We also made diva lamps from clay and created rangoli patterns. We enjoyed reading a story book about a little girl who was preparing for Diwali.

Making chocolate lolly pops

Today we learnt the phoneme ll and so we made chocolate lolly pops. We talked about how the chocolate changed from hard to soft and then hard again so we could eat them. We put sprinkles on the lolly pops and compared the amount of sprinkles on each, linked to our morning maths. We used the stem sentence: ….. has more than…….

Huff and puff

We investigated which materials could be huffed and puffed by the Big Bad Wolf!

b is for butter

We made cream into butter using a butter churn and a jar with a bouncy ball. We then used butter pats in order to shape the butter.

b is for bread

We had a great morning making our own bread rolls, we followed a recipe, measured, kneaded and let the dough prove. After it had proved we shaped the dough into rolls.

ck as in rock cake

We learnt the grapheme ck and made rock cakes!