Classes
Herons Church Visit
To complete our RE unit on the Big Question “What does it mean if God is loving and holy?”, Herons walked up to All Saints Church to explore and reflect.
We began this unit thinking about the staggering number of people in the world today who have a religious faith – 2.6 billion Christians and 2 billion Muslims. Then we zoomed in on the Christian religion and looked briefly at the huge variety of beliefs and practices all within the same religion. We noted that, despite all of their differences, one key concept that unites all Christians is the idea of a God who is both holy (divine; perfect; separate from and ‘above’ us) and loving. And if God is both holy and loving, then Christians feel a duty to worship. This beautiful church in our village, with its magnificent architecture, is itself an act of worship designed to glory in a holy and loving God. We finished our visit with a rehearsal of Silent Night/Stille Nacht to hear the beautiful acoustics in the church.
Spelling
This week in spelling, we have been learning what a prefix is. We have looked at the prefix ‘re’ and how it changes the meaning of the word.
Throughout the term, we have been developing strategies to help spell words. Today we played a game where we had to work out what word was on our hat and then write it down using the correct spelling.
It was a challenging way to learn the meanings of new words and spell them.
We had fun though!
Computing
This term in Kingfishers we are learning what coding is. We are building up games which require us to move items around the screen, change direction and disappear. In order to do this, we need to create a code that causes something to happen when an item is clicked on or a button is pressed.
Once we are successful, we can create different backgrounds and add other images.
When we are not successful, we need to look back at the codes we have created and see why it does not work.
Winter 2024
Since returning after the Christmas break, we have been celebrating the New Year and focusing on different fairy tales, due to many of the children visiting the Pantomime over Christmas and excitedly retelling us the various stories. We have had the dress up costumes out, which the children have enjoyed using for role-play. For Jack and the Beanstalk, we have been making our own ‘Magic Beanstalks’ with the letters of our names, as well as comparing the sizes of the Giant’s footprints with lego bricks! We have also been looking at Goldilocks and the Three Bears, where we have been enjoying some sensory play with oats, scooping and transferring with different utensils. The children have also been retelling and re-enacting the story at group times!
We also made the most of the snow! The children excitedly explored the school field and the garden where they discovered the difference in how the garden objects looked and felt whilst covered in snow and ice.
We are looking forward to the term ahead where we will be getting involved with the Big Garden Birdwatch with RSPB, learning about and celebrating Chinese New Year and of course… pancake day!
Green Green Grass (Grebes Ukulele)
Grebes have been learning Green, Green Grass by George Ezra on ukulele and after just four rehearsals were ready to perform it to the whole school!
