This week the children of Team JF were incredibly lucky to visit Bolsover Castle! We started off by walking around the castle grounds, stopping at each point to recognise what the space may have been used for and linking back to the existing knowledge we had from school. As we were lucky enough to have the sunshine, we also found a great spot in the fountain gardens to sketch part of the castle. The children produced some FAB sketches and they had really thought carefully about the detailing in the stone work. The whole of Team JF had incredible listening skills during our trip. They were an absolute credit to Park Street. They followed all instructions first time and made our day the best! Thank you Team JF the adults are VERY proud of you all!
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This term Team JF have worked incredibly hard exploring the topic 'castles'. We started off at the very beginning to gain an understanding of why castles were built and who was responsible for this! From this, we explored the first Motte and Bailey castles and their features. Then we moved into the newly designed Stone Keep castles. We discussed the differences between the two, why they chose to change the materials they were built from and features of both. As our learning continued and we became experts at castle features, we moved into the roles of castle life. Here we spoke of the hierarchy in those times and how some of the roles were more privileged than others with better conditions! Alongside this, we explored the role of the knights and discovered their responsibilities, armour and how they became important! Finally, we designed and created our own model castles, thinking carefully about the features to include!
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This week the children moved on from exploring 2d shapes and into 3d. To begin with, we spoke about the word 3d and what it meant. Here we gained a better understanding of the difference between 2d and 3d. From this, the children were introduced to a range of shapes. They spoke about similarities with familiar 2d ones and also objects made from the chosen shape. As our learning progressed we completed a matching activity with a partner to pair up the shape to its name. As well as this, the children tested their knowledge with a competitive game of ‘snap’ using the cards and a fastest pair to hold up the shape I called. This was a great start to building on their knowledge of 3d shapes. Literacy This week we started our new unit of learning. We decided as we LOVED our previous text 'The Big Book of the Blue' we wanted to continue exploring the ocean and sea creatures. We decided to take a closer look at the ocean, began exploring the conditions of the sea and how plastic is having an impact on the animals. From this, we created posters outlining the problems sea pollution may cause and began thinking of how we could help! PE This week we started our new unit of indoor PE - Cheerleading. To begin with, we discussed this and watched clips of cheers, movements and stances. After that, we went into the hall to carry out our initial assessment before our learning takes place. This week the children continued exploring plants. We started by recapping our prior knowledge using our quick quiz and moved into new learning- identifying and naming deciduous and evergreen trees. First, we spoke about the meaning of those words and gained a secure understanding of them. After that, we started to think about which trees were deciduous and which were evergreen. The children then completed a sorting task to identify the twoMaths
This week we started our new unit of learning. To begin with we started to spot and name a range of regular shapes. From this, we started to look closer at these to spot the differences between shapes. Finally, we worked with a partner to match up shapes to their names. As the week progressed, we moved into identifying shapes using their properties. We counted the sides and vertices of regular and irregular shapes. Literacy This week in literacy Team JF have continued exploring non fiction texts using the book 'The Big Book of the Blue'. As we are going to write our own information texts about sea creatures, we have been skill building this week and started our first draft of writing. Science This week in science Team JF have continued investigating materials. We looked closely at natural and man-made materials. We identified why they were natural/man-made and gave examples of them. We also discovered where the materials came from and objects made from them. Maths Over the past couple of weeks, Team JF have worked incredibly hard to master money! We started off recognising coins, notes and their values. From this we moved into working with it in a range of ways. This included comparing it, finding the total and giving change! PE Today we came to the end of our dance unit. The children performed their routines to one another, focusing on their timing and movements. They have worked really hard to interpret the movements of different animals in groups, focusing on their timings and pace. Literacy
Over the past couple of weeks Team JF have continued to explore the book 'The Lost Happy Endings'. We decided we LOVED this book and wanted to do more with it! From this, we had lots of discussion and decided it would be really cool if we wrote our own alternative endings to the story! We started off by exploring well known traditional tales and unpicking the endings. We then had lots of fun thinking of how they could've ended if we had wrote them! As you can imagine they were very interesting! As our learning progressed, we moved into the acquire stage of our writing and began skill building in preparation for our plan and write next week. Maths Thus week the children worked really hard to identify and make equal groups. To begin with we looked at a range of arrays and discussed our previous learning of equal/unequal groupings to sort them. As our understanding deepened, we moved into making our own equal groups of 2,5 and 10 using cubes. As we made the groups we discussed what our whole number was, what we were grouping this into and how many equal groups we could make. The children worked really hard on this skill and were able to discuss what they were doing with their whole number and justify why they were correct. PE Today the children continue their unit of dance. We recapped our prior learning of this unit by discussing the movements we had already created in previous weeks and compared them to each other. From this, we moved into this week’s movements of birds. The children worked really hard to ensure their movements were realistic, thinking of the way they travel and use their bodies. Literacy
Over the past couple of weeks Team JF have cantered our learning around the book 'The Lost Happy Endings'. We have read the book lots of times and become familiar with each part. As our understanding deepened, we decided to write a diary entry from the perspective of Jubb! The children have worked incredibly hard to identify the features of a diary and practice the skills. This week, we have planned our diaries and even started writing our first draft! They are already reading FAB! Maths Over the pas two weeks we have been working on multiplication. We started off by exploring equal and unequal groups. From this, we moved into reading and writing arrays to show this. As our learning progressed, we started reading and using the multiplication symbol with a focus on the 2,5 and 10 times tables. History This half term our topic learning has a history focus. Our history focus is castles. So far, we have gathered our existing knowledge and discussed what skills we already have that may help us moving forward. We have also discussed what we will be learning throughout our topic as an introduction. We are very excited and cannot wait to get started next week! |
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