That’s not my rocket…
Key stage one have continued their science unit looking at materials and their properties. Today they recreated a page from the well known book, “That’s not my rocket…” Using their materials knowledge they searched for just the right object to match the property they chose.
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Geographical enquiries in our local area
Class 2 turned into geographers this morning and had a fantastic morning completing transport surveys in our local area.
We created an enquiry question, collected our date and then presented our data back in the classroom.
Team spirit
Our year 1/2 dodgeball team took part in their first ever dodgeball tournament. 10 schools competed and The Howard children were undefeated going into the final. They earned a well deserved second place!
We are all very proud of the children and the team spirit they showed each other and the…
Fun and games with Dementia Caring
Another fantastic session at Elford village hall with the Time Out club. We joined in with the team games playing splat the rat and pass the bucket. What fun!
Maypole dance rehearsals
Class 1 have begun practising for our May Day celebrations. Another fabulous event at The Howard.
What is an ordinal number?
Year one have had great time learning about ordinal numbers. They enjoyed having racing and ordering each other by their finishing positions. We then brought the learning back inside and completed our White Rose fluency tasks and reasoning challenges. Great work year 1!
Building 9 and 10
The children have been learning all about the numbers 9 and 10, how to recognise them, their compositions, counting on and back from 10. They had great fun singing ‘10 little men in a flying saucer’ and acting out the song. They also used different objects to create amounts of 9 and…
Reception investigate materials
The children had a wonderful science lesson learning all about the different materials that could be used to make a boat that floats on water. The experimented with different types of materials to discover which would be the best for their boats. Great work Reception!
Creating media- templates
Class 2 have continued their computing topic by looking at templates. Today they recapped portrait and landscape orientation, learnt about placeholders, created paper templates for magazine page and then created a google document magazine template. Great work everyone!
Practical Science in Class 2
We had a fantastic science lesson this week. We investigated how fluid in our bodies helps to protect our organs by placing eggs in glass jars with and without water and giving them a good shake. Why don’t you ask us what we discovered.
Manipulatives in Maths
Year 3 have done some fantastic maths today, they were able to add unit fractions successfully using the fraction cubes.
Swimming Success
Our swimming team took part in the finals of The Tamworth Schools swimming Gala at The Snowdome recently and recorded some excellent results. Freddie came away two first place finishes in the front crawl and backstroke while Kate was also victorious in the backstroke event. Abbie put in a…