Humblescough Visit 2025
We have had the most incredible day at Humblescough Farm today! The children built dens, toasted marshmallows, told stories, made wands, made things out of clay, played in the woods, played games, went on treasure hunts, went on bug hunts, toasted marshmallows AND we fortunate enough to see two,…
Growing Beans
This week the children have started a science experiment to see if they were right in their predictions about what a plant needs to be able to grow. They put two Broad Bean seeds into a bag with water and kitchen roll and then I stuck them into the window. Separately, we have denied one seed water…
Algorithms
In our computing lessons we have been learning to understand what an algorithm is. The children did a fun activity, dressing a paper doll practising giving each other precise instructions.
They learnt that an algorithm is a set of clear and precise instructions. Instructions should be…
Printing with paint
Using Lego bricks to create prints the children experiments creating patterns, combining colours and creating pictures. They created the new colours by overlapping prints and aimed to work carefully and accurately to create their prints.
Painting with colour
The children put their understanding of colour mixing into practise to recreate their own versions of the artwork ‘0-9’ Numbers in Colour created by the artist Jasper Johns in 1958-59.
They looked closely at Jasper’s work deciding what the subject was (numbers and primary colours) and then…
DT Windmills
Our design and technology project this half term has been learning about structures. The children have made windmills out of paper cups and showed great problem solving skills as they worked out how to stop their windmills falling over in the wind and how to construct them. So much great learning…
Your Imagination
We have been learning how to play the glockenspiel this week in our music lesson. E have been learning a song called ‘Your Imagination’ and have begun to learn how to play instruments along to the song.
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Learning to measure in cms
The children have been using a variety of tools and learning how to measure accurately. They’ve been introduced to millimetres, centimetres and metres then explored measuring themselves. Great learning children!
Longer or shorter than a metre?
Exploring length, measuring and deepening their understanding of standard measures looking if objects are shorter or longer than a metre. Lots of great discussion, comparing and learning.
Reasoning and problem solving … “l only have one metre stick, I can’t measure that it’s too big” … can…
Materials and their properties
In our ongoing science topic about materials the children have been investigating the properties of the materials. After looking at objects in our classroom they went exploring outside looking at what objects are made of, describing what the materials they are made of and questioning why they have…
Measuring with non standard measures
The children have been exploring measuring length and height with non standard measures. Lots of great predictions, estimating, counting, comparing and discussion in their learning.