We’ve had great fun today in our wonderful traditional tales costumes! The children worked hard this morning with our usual lessons, and then this afternoon we got to read some twisted fairytales and even started to write our own! This is for a competition to create our own twisted traditional tales which we will be announcing the winners of in our Flourishing Learners Celebration next week.

This week we have noticed the first signs of Spring! In Science we’re starting a new topic about the seasons, and now that it’s starting to look like Spring we drew some daffodils. We used watercolour and crayons to add colour to them, and discussed the different signs of Spring that we’ve seen outside.

Today we have been programming a route for the Bee bots to travel! This was quite tricky for us to work out, and we had to restart lots of times to become familiar with the route that the Bee bots travelled. We had to work as a team for this and it really paid off as some of us were able to make the route more than once!

This week we have sewn and finished off our alphabet books! These have been our DT project this half term, and the children had great fun sewing their books together on Tuesday afternoon. We have been resilient with this project as it’s something we started a while ago, and some of us even lost our pages as we were working! We have all worked really hard and we hope that you will be amazed at our hard work when they come home with us tomorrow.

Today we have covered our book front covers with glue. it was a bit messy but hopefully it will help our books feel like a real hardback book!
Some of us managed to do a watercolour wash on them too so there’s lots of colour!

Today we’ve started to plan our hot write based on The King’s Hats. We will be writing about aliens in their underpants and we had great fun coming up with ideas for them today in our planning lesson. We came up with lots of noun phrases to use for our writing tomorrow and we drew the aliens that we will be writing about. Some aliens had lots of eyes, and some had only one, but they all had silly underpants! We can’t wait to see how our writing ends up tomorrow!

This week we have been to Leeds City Museum for our trip! We have really loved the adventure we had, from catching the bus to town and looking around the museum. We loved learning about the way Leeds looked throughout history, and we learned about the changes it has seen. It helped us to see how things might have looked when King Charles was our age, and how it would’ve been different compared to our lives now. We were really interested in the different maps that we found, and some of us managed to find Alwoodley!

Adults at home are in for a treat when the children bring home their Robin calendars on Thursday. We learnt all about British birds during our time in Reception and many of us remembered lots of facts about Robins and birds in general.

Axel – My Robin is making a cheep cheep like the birdsong.

Roseanna – I know birds have scaly legs!

We’ve been back exploring 3D shape this week and we enjoyed building some of our 3D shapes out of playdough and lollipop sticks. So many good discussions about the difference between rectangles and cuboids and how best to support the ‘struts’ of our structures. Is it a cone if there’s nothing supporting the base?

This half term we have been looking at self-portraiture focused on the whole body and not just a profile image. We really enjoyed experimenting with making sculptures which were then squashed and remodelled. For some of us we quickly learnt about proportion when our very skinny legs could not support the pelvis! We practised rolling the clay into balls and sausages and compressing smaller pieces with our fingers. We also practised the slip and score technique using tools and water to help ‘glue’ the body pieces together.