Living and Learning
This week’s Living and Learning statement is ‘I recognise the importance of sleep’.
In our session, we talked about what sorts of things we can do in order to help us get to sleep on an evening. We also talked about how we might be able to get back to sleep, if we wake up in the night.
The children listened to a story of a girl who found it difficult to sleep on a night. They identified several reasons the girl was not able to sleep and linked this to their own lives. Many of the children said that they had realised some of the reasons they might wake up or have bad dreams are caused by the things they do before going to bed. We came up with a few ideas of how we could relax before bedtime and adjust our routines to get the perfect night’s sleep.
We made some posters to remind us of what to avoid before bedtime and what we can do to help us fall asleep. Here are some of the posters the children came up with.
Spring has sprung – let’s get outside!
1,2B enjoyed playtimes and PE outside yesterday on the field. It was lovely to have the sun on our faces and space to run, throw and kick the balls as far as we could!
Reading – Amazing Grace
We are using the book Amazing Grace, by Mary Hoffman, in our reading and writing lessons. It is all about a girl who is told she can’t be certain things – but she doesn’t let this stop her.
Help at home by reading or watching this book, discussing it and particularly talking about how you can do anything you want if you put your mind to it.
Wonderful, wonderous words
1,2B collected words meaning ‘amazing’ today. We tried to order them but everyone had a different opinion! It was still fun.
Help at home by talking about the meaning of words and using different words that have similar meanings.
History – Heroes (Nelson Mandela)
We have started out new history topic all about real life heroes. The first important person we’re learning about it Nelson Mandela. You can find more about him here. He believed that everyone should be treated the same. We will be learning about equality, apartheid and the suffragettes.
Egg rolling winners
1A, 1,2B and 2C had a egg-cellent time rolling our eggs today. It was rather wet, but we didn’t care! We hope you have a lovely Easter holiday. From Mrs Latham, Miss Lowry and Miss Young.
Here are the winners who rolled their eggs the furthest.
1,2B egg rolling competition
It was wet, eggy and exciting! We all had fun and cheered each other as we rolled.
FOSP Easter competition
Miss Hague came to our assembly and awarded the prizes to the Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 winners of the Easter competition. Well done to everyone who entered.
Science – John McAdam
In science this half term we have been working scientifically. We have investigated, observed, predicted, tested and collected data. We have also learned about the scientist and civil engineer, John McAdam, who invented a new process ‘macadamisation’ – tarmac!
We looked at his road building process. 1,2B re-created his process of using different sizes of stones compressed together.
Science – working scientifically
John McAdams has been our scientist of focus this half term in KS1. McAdams made the first macadamised road. The road he invented was smooth, durable and had good drainage. We did our own experiments to investigate which road surface was best for cars.
For the first experiment, we pushed a toy car down a ramp to measure how far it would travel. We did a comparative test where we kept everything the same but changed one thing. We kept the car the same, the ramp, the ramp height and the person pushing the car. We tested the car on 3 surfaces; concrete, laminate and carpet. We found that the concrete was the best surface because it was smooth and the car travelled the furthest. The carpet was the worst surface because it was rough and soft. The car did not travel very far on the carpet.
We also tested different road surfaces for drainage. The road surfaces were large stones, small pebbles, sand and flour. We tested 4 road surfaces without water to see how easily the car could travel across. We then poured water onto each surface to see which road had the best drainage. In both tests, the road surface made of small pebbles was the best because the it was the least bumpy and has the best drainage due to the small gaps between the pebbles.
One child wrote ‘The worst road surface was flour because it was bumpy. When we poured water on it was sticky and the car didn’t move.’
We have really enjoyed our Science topic this half term