Autumn Term 2024

Sycamore Class have had a brilliant week in Forest Schools! Leading their own learning, the children chose to make yoyos and hammers, play imaginatively, decorate rocks in the style of Tingatinga and practise their whittling skills.

 

In our Geography lessons, we’ve been learning all about the River Nile. We’ve located it on a map, learnt about its geographical features and described the river’s journey from the source of the river to the mouth. This week, we went on a hunt around the classroom to find information about the Aswan High Dam. We had to find the positive and negative effects of it being built on the River Nile. 
In Art, we have studied the artwork of Edward Saidi Tingatinga. We then painted African animals in the style of Tinatinga. 

 

 

 

his week in English, we’ve been learning to write in the past and present tense. We imagined we were in Egypt and wrote sentences in the past and the present tense. 
We’ve started our ‘Place Value’ unit in Maths and we have learnt to compose 100 from 1s, 10s, 20s, 25s and 50s. 
In art, we've explored different African animal skins, looking at the shapes and patterns we can see. Then we recreated them with different mediums. 

 

We've had a fantastic start to the new school year! 

In Maths, we have started a brand new way of learning by using the 'Oak National Academy' planning and resources. The children have been learning to add three 1-digit numbers by finding doubles, using the 'First, Then, Then and Now' method as well as using a bar model to support their learning. 

In our Geography lessons, the children have learnt to name the seven continents of the world as well as locate Egypt on a map then we explored the 'physical' and 'human' features of Egypt.

After we learnt about the history of the Ancient Egyptian pyramids, we had lots of fun constructing 3D square-based pyramids in our DT lesson.