Design and Technology – I can sew using a needle and thread.
In Year 3, we’re going to be design, making and evaluating a pouch! This pouch can be for whatever purpose that the children choose. It could be a pencil case, a coin purse or a general pouch.
A key skill that we’ll be using to make these pouches will be sewing. Some of us had sewed before but many of us hadn’t.
We followed these instructions:
1. First, thread the needle and tie a knot in the thread.
2. Then, complete a running stitch using your binka fabric.
3. Finally, tie a knot at the end of the stitch and cut the excess thread.
The children worked so hard to be precise with their sewing and their running stitches look fantastic! More confident sewers were helping their friends and all worked together. Have a look at some of our outcomes:
One of the trickiest parts was tying the knots in the thread. Help at home by practising tying knots in a piece of string or even learning how to tie shoelaces! These fine motor skills will be really beneficial for the children.
Maths – What’s the time?
This week, Year 3 have been learning to tell the time. Telling the time can be tricky as there are lots of ways to read the same time e.g. 2:15, 15 minutes past 2 and quarter past 2.
We began by reading the time to 5 minutes.
“three twenty”
Then, we had a go at reading time to minutes past and minutes to. The key to this is lots of practice!
Here’s the children’s fantastic learning:
Help at home by having a go at reading the time.
Challenge: Can you read a digital and analogue clock? What about a clock that uses roman numerals?
Visitors
This week, as part of our biology learning in science, some visitors arrived in class.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be making lots of observations to see what changes over time with our caterpillars.
We have been learning about the different stages of the butterfly life cycle in science but also from our non-fiction reading fluency text.
Take a look at this video to see this amazing transformation and this video for more about animal life cycles.
When comparing butterflies to other living things, we noticed the offspring look very different to the adult.
Help at home: ask your child what is the next stage in the life cycle of a butterfly and what we will expect to see next.
We are designers!
This half term we are designers. In yesterday’s lesson, the children learnt/recapped how to tie a knot, thread a needle and create a running stitch. Year 5 were very resilient and had lots of concentration.
Help at home: Why not practise the running stitch? Discuss the difference between a running stitch and back stitch.
Year 4’s observation over time
Last week, Year 4 completed our final investigation in our observation over time.
Over the course of the year, we have observed how the living things in our school grounds have changed.
We ventured into our school grounds and recorded what living things we found.
We then compared our results to what we recorded in autumn and spring.
We found that there were many more insects in summer compared to autumn, particularly bees! We also observed how we didn’t see any flowers in autumn but in summer there were too many for us to count!
Help at home by asking your child what they observed change in our school grounds during our observation over time.
What can you achieve?
Today, Jess Wright, who is a coach with PE Partner and leads one of our after-school clubs, came to speak to the children in an assembly.
At only 17, Jess has been playing football for over ten years and currently plays for Sheffield Wednesday. She also coaches at different levels from children to adults and referees too.
Jess has another role which is to try to get children, especially girls, into football and providing opportunities for children who want to get involved.
Jess shared information of how to get involved in local physical activities. This could be our school after-school clubs, other local physical activities listed in our guide for parents and carers or other opportunities especially around football and getting girls into football.
Leeds City JFC are a local club looking for new members especially in their girls teams.
Wigton Moor JFC are another local club with opportunities.
Catalan Soccer offer classes and camps.
Thank you to Jess for coming into school to inspire the children and to share her experiences around football and the opportunities and skills it provides.
Y6 Residential 2024
Y6 had a blast last week on residential!
The Robinwood staff were extremely complimentary of how respectful and kind we were and how we got stuck in and took safe risks!
Well done to everyone for a fantastic trip away.
First up, some pictures of raft building.
RIP water slipper, 2024-2024
Next, are our pictures of some problem solving activities called Dungeon and King’s Quest.
A fan favourite was definitely the Giant Swing!
Caving came out on top in a surprising turn of events!
We sailed to the top of the Trapeze and even managed to jump off and grab the bar.
A very funny Night Line is up next…
We also channelled our inner Robin Hood at Robinwood…
We finished each evening with a Team Challenge which included, “ONE FULL TUBE!” and a hilarious game of Oogly Boogly Bop!
We survived the world-famous Piranha Pool!
Zip Wire was also great fun with different games such as racing and bean bag drop.
Not even the climbing wall could stop us – we raced to the top to squish the rainbow rubber duck!
Mountain and Wood groups, Robinwood, 2024 – over and out.
Design and Technology: Textiles
This half term we are learning all about Design and Technology and we will be sewing our own hand puppet! We are very excited to get going. This week, we have learnt how to thread a needle and tie a knot. This took great resilience and perseverance but everybody did a brilliant job.
Once the needle was threaded, we began to sew. We practised both the overstitch and the running stitch and we were all very proud of ourselves!
Help at home by practising threading a needle and tying a knot.
Summer 2: week 1
The children have come back well rested and taller after the half term.
We have had lots of fun performing our poem Thunderstorm this week. The children have created their own actions for it and used musical instruments to bring it to life.
English
The children have enjoyed reading lots of pirate stories this week and have been writing their own setences about pirates, finding treasure and building their own pirate ships. They have also been walking the plank!
Maths
In maths this week, we have been looking at what is and what is not a double. We have been choosing numbers 0-10 and placing them on a tens frame to check if they are a double or not a double.
Help at home: give your child a number between 0-10 and ask them to check if it is a double or not. They can do this by getting the correct amount of objects and putting them into two piles. If they can make the piles equal, they know that it is a double.
Living and Learning: I know the ingredients of a happy and healthy relationship.
The children were able to discuss what a happy and healthy relationship looks like. They talked about how it should make them feel and what they could do to build one.
They should ask me if I’m ok.
They should cheer me up if I’m sad.
We should play together and take turns.
Super Science at Allerton Grange!
Today, Year 5 went to Allerton Grange for a science lesson. The children leant a lot of new words: pH, alkali and hydrophobic! They also were able to practise their pipetting skills. We had try to identify unknown chemicals by using indicators. The children were amazing at following instructions and had a wonderful time.
