The class made waist coasts for their teddy bears. This required them to design a waistcoat and then measure and cut their own material before sewing together the shoulders and the sides and then finally sewing on buttons.
Category: Design & Technology
DT – design and make a biscuit
For our DT unit, the children had to design and make a biscuit with packaging for someone who has previously taught them in school. They learnt a lot of different skills linked to baking and design.
Year 4 – Christmas stockings.
This week has been an exciting week for 4P as we get closer to making our Christmas stockings as part of our Design and Technology unit of work. The children have researched the tradition behind Christmas stockings and made links from this to their own Christmas traditions. They have explored different designs for Christmas stockings and analysed these before coming up with their own design. Next week, we will begin to practise sewing and how to thread a needle before making our own Christmas stocking in the last week.
Y3 Design & Technology – Sandwich snacks.
In Design Technology, Year 3 have been looking at designing and creating their very own ‘sandwich snacks’. After doing some taste testing last week, the children were ready to start designing. We chose to do this by creating a ‘exploded diagram’, which helped us to clearly show all the ingredients and fillings that will be used in our sandwiches. Then, the children wrote a simple set of instructions to ensure they are ready for bringing their creations to life next week!
Y5 Design & Technology – Festive food
In D/T this term we are going to design a festive food product linked to our topic on bread. So far, we have tasted different types of bread, filled in surveys linked with how much bread we and others eat, made a basic bread dough and designed what our final product will look like. In the next few weeks the children will make and evaluate their final product.
Y2 – Puppet Making
Year 2 have been learning all about the art of puppet making in DT. The children have talked about the different ways of making puppets and the materials used. This week we have designed and labelled our puppets describing the tools and materials we will need ready to start the construction phase next week.
Gingerbread men and growing veg
Emma has been busy baking delicious gingerbread men and growing onions and beans. She has been checking on them everyday to see how much they have grown.
Yr 5 Class Dojo protfolios
Members of Year 5 have begun uploading their work to their portfolio on Class Dojo for Mr Whittle to check, comment and feedback. They have been exceptionally busy with their home learning which is great to see. Cody has been busy with his maths and English and his Amazon research; Anna has been working hard on her grammar and writing and keeping up her running; Beth has got stuck into the art unit and produce a Monet style painting and Ruby has been having a go at Year 5′ D&T topic and making some delicious burgers.
If you haven’t already please follow the link in the invitation you have received and download the app. You will also have had an email with the QR code for your child’s portfolio so they can upload work too. Year 5 are trialing this for the rest of the school so please sign up if you can.
Cookies!
After a hard day completing her school work Orla had a lot of fun making these yummy cookies. They look delicious.
Delicious burger!
William has been hard at work on his DT project researching different food groups and calories and their benefits to the human body. He has then written a set of instructions for making a burger before following them to produce this delicious meal. Apparently, the best part was the eating. Being a burger expert I can agree that it looks amazing!
Seaside Project
Elizabeth has shared her home learning on her seaside snack project. Mrs Haste was most impressed and said that it looks delicious. Maybe you could follow Elizabeth’s instructions too. Well done.
Year 5 Home Learning
Children from year 5 have been hard at work this on their home learning. Matteo has again been hard at work on his maths, English and keeping up with his times tables. Beth has produced some fantastic art work in the style of impressionist artist Monet. Finally, Amelie has made a model of a Mayan god along with a sign to show how much she misses everyone at St. Mary’s.
Amazing Home Learning!
Wow! The children of St. Mary’s are certainly getting stuck into their home learning and producing some amazing English, maths and lots of other amazing activities. Orlaith and James have been busy getting stuck into their maths and English work whilst the Days have been exceptionally busy making, baking and creating. Meanwhile, Josh has just received his caterpillars in the post and is looking forward to see their life-cycle first hand to match this terms topic of Spring and growth. Keep up the hard work and sending in your brilliant activities. All the teachers and staff love finding out about what you have been up to.
Being creative in a range of subjects
- Chatterpack; A huge list of free resources and websites, including mental health support; https://chatterpack.net/blogs/blog/list-of-online-resources-for-anyone-who-is-isolated-at-home
- Powerpoint which includes lots of useful resources for parents to use at home
- Seneca; https://www.senecalearning.com/
- BBC Bitesize; http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize
Free education subscriptions
Below is an entire list of websites offering free subscriptions due to the school closure
Winter Topic in F1
This half term in Nursery we have been very busy learning all about Winter. We have used our senses to look for signs of Winter outside and discuss the changes we have seen.
In Literacy we have focussed on the books ‘Say hello to the snowy animals’ and ‘Lost and Found.’ We have been working hard on developing our mark-making skills practising different patterns each week and also thinking carefully about the initial sounds in words we can hear. The children have helped to create story maps of each story and also innovated the stories to change and add our own pages and endings.
In phonics we have focused on alliteration and played lots of fun games to get us tuned into hearing the initial sounds of words. The children have especially loved making our own silly soup!
In Maths we have continued to focus on numbers to 5 but also been working on suing some new vocabulary to describe quantities- ‘more, ‘less’ and ‘same’. The children have enjoyed singing new counting songs and rhymes around our polar animal theme and have also been practising counting other things that can’t be moved such as jumps and claps.
We have been thinking a lot about changes we can see outside during Winter and also exploring ice in different forms. The children have discussed clothes to wear in Winter weather and also learnt the names of some arctic animals. We found out that Penguins are from the South Pole and what it is like there. We have also celebrated Chinese New year and tried some yummy Chinese food. The children enjoyed making lanterns and finding out about the Zodiac calendar and animal race.
In R.E we have been getting to know Jesus and how he showed love to other’s. We have learnt about some of the miracles he performed and also thought about how we can show our love and be kind to others.
We have loved our new weekly dance lesson in the hall, practising some basic movements and also listening carefully to instructions. The children have mastered taking off/ putting on their shoes and socks in record time! Their favourite activity was singing ‘sleeping bunnies’ but changing the names and movements to some of the arctic animals we have learnt about in class.
In PSHE we have been learning about how we are all special and unique and the children have been able to think about what makes them who they are. They particularly enjoyed making their ‘I am special crowns’.
Outdoor learning has been fun with lots of discussions around the Winter weather we have experienced and also the signs of winter in the environment. Children have been busy making winter soups in the mud kitchen, fixing things in our new tool station and dressing the dolls ready for the winter weather.
Our next topic is ‘Under the Sea’ with a special trip to the Sea life Centre planned for 10th March. We will also be beginning our ‘Little Biker’s course in school each Friday next half term where children will learn to ride a balance bike.
What a great start to 2020 it has been in F1. Have a lovely February half term everyone 🙂
Chinese New Year in EYFS
Today we have been learning all about the Chinese New Year. We found out about the different ways that Chinese people celebrate the New Year and listened to the story about how the different years got their animal names: this is the year of the rat! In our class we have looked carefully at different Chinese artefacts: the children particularly liked the red envelopes which are given as gifts with money inside. In our maths area we have been having a go at writing some Chinese numbers. We have been very creative, making dragon masks, Chinese red lanterns and Happy New Year cards. We also enjoyed some Chinese food tasting. The jury is still out on sweet and sour sauce, but the prawn crackers were a big hit! Happy Chinese New Year to all who are celebrating.
Feeding the Birds
Our current topic in F2 is winter. We have been reading a non-fiction book about winter and also used the internet to find winter facts. We have been looking for signs of winter in our school environment and comparing winter to the other seasons. You can help your child in their learning by talking to them about signs of winter: perhaps you could go for a winter walk or explore your back garden. How does it look different to the Autumn time?
One thing that we learnt from our non-fiction book is that birds struggle to find food in the winter time as the trees are bare and also the ground can freeze, making finding worms quite tricky. We followed a set of instructions to make our very own bird feeders to help the birds in our school grounds. We used the words ‘first’, ‘then’, ‘next’ and ‘finally’ in our instructions. We all had fun getting very messy! We hope that the birds will enjoy visiting our school this winter.
EYFS: We are rocket builders!
In EYFS our young learners have all been very engaged by our recent “Space” theme. In F2 we have been spending time designing and making rockets in a variety of ways. We have looked at lots of photos of rockets in books and on the computer. We have taken time to design our rockets, thinking about what we want them to look like. We have used lots of different materials: using 2D shapes, junk modelling, using various construction materials indoors, plus using the tyres and crates outside. We have even used musical instruments to give our rockets some fantastic sound effects!
Mayan Feast
After studying the Mayans for a number of weeks =, Year 5’s work has culminated in them getting to try out some recipes similar to those the Mayans would have eaten. This included eating totillas made from corn (as maize was a staple of the Mayan diet), making a salsa and getting to try an ancient Mayan recipe for hot chocolate which included, cinnamon, honey and chilli!
Wonderful Welsh Cakes
As part of Year 2’s topic on ‘Where does our food come from?’ they have been learning about different foods from around the UK. They began by locating these on a map and placing them in the correct place. They the correct places for foods such as haggis, jellied eels, Bakewell tarts, soda bread and also Welsh cakes. Then on Tuesday they had the opportunity to be Masterchefs as they carefully followed the recipe and made some fantastic Welsh cakes.
