This week 3 Modahl were making a model of Stone Henge as part of their new History topic. Pupils used biscuits for the stones and worked in groups of 4 to make a circle of stones like at Stone Henge. They then got to eat their tasty creations as a reward for their fabulous team work.

This week 3 Khan have been working on making assemblages using natural material in their Art lessons. The children used celtic art and rangoli patterns to inspire them and looked at the work of artists who used things found in nature to create beautiful pieces of artwork, such as Andy Goldsworthy.🎨☘️🪶🐚🪨🖼️🎨☘️🪶🐚🪨🖼️🎨

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This week 4K have been working hard in Maths. In arithmetic, children complete a range of questions every morning to improve their confidence and fluency in the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division). They have also been dividing a 2 digit number by a 1 digit number by using ones and tenths. ➖➕➖✖️➗➖➕➖✖️➗➖➕➖✖️

Year 2 have been designing moveable germs using mechanics in design & technology. This links to learning in science about hygiene.

Year 1 have been having great fun visiting The Blue Planet this week as part of learning about animals in science!

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This week 4W started a new art project on printing. Printing is a way of transferring one surface to another. The surfaces 4W printed from to make dot decorations for their maps of Roman forts were the ends of a cotton wool buds, matches and kebab skewers.

In the next lesson pupils began making their collograph printing blocks. They used aerial maps of Manchester to sketch out their designs and started building their printing blocks using scrap materials.

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 This week, 3W looked at the different parts of a flower. The children then carefully dissected a flower and looked for the different parts such as the petal, ovary, filament, stigma and style. It was really interesting to look at these in detail and learn about the functions of these different parts. What super scientists they are!

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Dear Parents and Guardians,

World Book Day takes place nationally, on Thursday 7^th March 2024 and we hope you’ll join us as we come together to celebrate our World Book Day in school.

This year, we will have lots of fun activities taking place throughout the week including:

• Dressing up on the day – you can choose to come into school in something you love to read in or you can dress up as your favourite book character.
• Sharing your child’s chosen book – send in their favourite book with them on the day so we can read it to them and their friends.
• Reading the same book in every class across school, performing a chosen poem live on dojo and writing our own funny poems.
• Sending home a £1 World Book Day book token to get a free book to keep!
• Y1-6 will be taking part in an Online event – The Great Big Footy and Booky Quiz 2024!

We’re very much looking forward to celebrating World Book Day, which could not happen without the support of parents and carers – thank you.

Best wishes,

The English Team

This week, 3 Modahl enjoyed a visit to Albermarle Allotments, as part of their Science unit of work.

Children learned about the importance of allotments, their role in the community and how compost is formed. They also had the opportunity to plant their own seeds. The session was led by our very own Mrs Hawkins, who was a teacher with us at Stanley Grove for many years. The class had a wonderful time.