WBD this year was based on Narnia. We started the day staining paper to begin creating an ancient map, long forgotten in time. We then created our own magical kingdom on the map, thinking about the human and physical features that would exist there. After this, we plotted a base camp all the way to the place where Aslan was captured. The final part of our map making was to write some detailed instructions to the rest of our army on how to rescue Aslan!

Today, as part of early World Book Day celebrations, we were lucky enough to be joined by the West End Production company. Christie was fantastic and she guided us through an Alice in Wonderland themed dance, which incorporated action, freeze-frames and group work. The children loved it!

This half term been a total joy being a teacher to our wonderful class. The learning has been rich, powerful and creative. Seeing the class’s kindness, love, perseverance and sense of humour develop is such a privilege to be part of. Here is a roundup of our learning environments that we have used constantly.

Today we were ACE Designers and made night lights. We explored the purpose, knowledge required and design process first before making them all afternoon. On Monday, we will create our own electrical circuits and test them within the nightlights to evaluate their effectiveness!

I am so proud of 4SH. The class have accomplished so much in the last eight days and their final performances of the dance, song and poem were fantastic. A special shout-out to Jeremiah and Kara who were so confident when performing their story and rap around fear, emotions and identity. You blew everyone away. Well done everyone. Thank you to all of the adults who came to celebrate the children’s learning, the adults who have supported and the ACE role models.

What a brilliant week we’ve had. It often feels like a ‘pinch me’ moment in school because of how lucky we are to have access to both a fantastic art and dance studio. We are also extremely lucky to have the skill and expertise of our Art guru Mrs Johnston and our dance guru Miss Patchett.

Our fortnight revolves around the theme of Identity. This first week has consisted of exploring different fears and how we can represent them through poetry, dance and art. Our dance is representing the struggle of having certain fears but working on the strengths you have as an individual to overcome them. I love how everyone has risen to the challenge of pushing themselves out of the box and what has been made this week has been incredible. I can’t believe we have achieved so much in just three days! Here are some photos to capture the week.

We had such a brilliant day in the Art Studio this week making mosaics. There were so many steps involved in the process that the children listened to carefully, considerately and with a creative perspective. We made our hearts to represent a loved one lost from COVID-19 or since then. This may be someone we know personally or from the school community. It was a very special day and we will be grouting the hearts to our outdoor memory area very soon.

What a day we’ve had! Exploring seasonality of vegetables last week in our safe ACES lesson, we saw the whole pizza making process through from the preparation of the dough; the chopping and peeling of the vegetables; the preparation of the base and toppings and cooking the final product! The children loved eating them and tomorrow we will evaluate what went well and what could be better.

Did you know the Romans attempted to invade Britain three times? They were successful on their third attempt! We have been learning about the locations of these invasions, the reasons for success or failure and then using stop motion animation to record how it all happened.