Time Traveller

Welcome to the new half term! Not long now until the 6 weeks holidays but in the meanwhile, we have lots of learning going on. This half term, our topic is called 'Time Traveller'. In this topic, we will be looking at the journey from the moment we are born to the when time stops. We will be looking at how our bodies and brains change as we grow older and how we cope with these changes.

We will also be reading Tom's Midnight Garden and imagining what would happen if the clock struck 13. Tom travels has a fantastic adventure travelling into the past.

We will be thinking about how we would feel if we could time travel. Where would we like to go and what would we like to see?

Tick, tock, tick, tock...the hands on the clock never stop!

Visualising within reading and Happy Easter!

The Gascoigne children have been working extremely hard this week in their reading sessions. We have been learning how to visualise images whilst we are reading. The children enjoyed creating their own pictures to visualise what was happening in a text from the book "Gorilla"by Anthony Browne.

We also enjoyed reading a poem called 'At the Seaside' which described the wonderful things that you can see on a day at the coast.We identified different features within the poem such as rhyming words and alliteration and then used the poem to continue practising our visualisation skills. The children worked both individually to draw their own ideas and we worked as a class to create a class picture of the poem.

The children loved working together to create this artwork from their own visualising ideas.

I hope that you all have a lovely relaxing Easter Holiday.

The Easter story and beyond

Last week, we asked the question 'What did Jesus do to save human beings?'. We started by learning about the Easter story through the 'Stations of the Cross'. The children created their own pictures depicting Jesus on his journey to the cross and his crucifixion. We also discussed who we thought was responsible for Jesus' death. The children asked some very sensible questions and had a great discussion sharing their own ideas.