Chinese New Year
This week we have been learning about Chinese New Year. We have made Chinese dragons and lanterns. Some children have tried Chinese writing but it was a bit tricky. We learnt about Chinese traditions and even tried dragon dancing in the hall. The children also chopped vegetables to make stir fry. It was delicious! Some […]
Flood Alert!
Last week, Year 5’s wrote a newspaper report about Noah’s Ark. In their writing, they had to include an eye-catching headline and the features of newspaper reports. We enjoyed re-drafting it into a newspaper format.
All About First Aid!
Firstly, we met the instructor and we learnt how to save people`s lives. We practiced on dummies and we did mouth to mouth and CPR. After, we watched a power point. The power point was about CPR , mouth to mouth and response (shaking their shoulders). At the end, the instructor asked us some more questions […]
Chocolate cake
In Science this week we investigated different types of chocolate using all of our senses. We then listened to the poem ‘Chocolate Cake’ by Michael Rosen while we held a chocolate button in our hand. Can you guess what happened to our buttons?!
Our chocolate visitor!
This week in Key Stage 1 Mr Chew, the chocolate factory owner came to tell us about the new factory that he is opening in Brinsworth. He gave us a company car each which we will have to work hard to keep! We used Physical Theatre to create different sweet shapes and then we created […]
iPad Club
In iPad club this week we explored some new apps. Some children used doodle buddy to draw pictures. . Other children practised their phonic skills. Some children explored symmetry and patterns. What will we be doing next week?
What makes a happy ending?
This half term, we are going to be exploring the darker side of fairy tales by exploring the question “What makes a happy ending?” Over the past couple of weeks, we have been working hard to transform our classrooms into mysterious and mythical woods! This has involved sketching well known characters from fairy tales, painting, […]
A Christmas carol….
We had a great music lesson in the last week before the holidays with Mr Hayward-Browne. We composed a new Christmas carol reflecting on what we knew and felt about Christmas using a 300 year old Scottish folk melody. The children created the carol line by line matching their ideas to the melody before learning […]
Key Stage 1 Homework Spring Term 1
Here is the homework for Years 1 and 2 for this half term. https://brinsworthwhitehill.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Homework-Grid-Spring-1.doc
