Funky Fingers!
In funky fingers club we had a go at making Pom poms. What will yours be? A monster? A spider? An octopus? …
Rocking at reading
Year 6 have been looking at the use of vocabulary in a text and showing a deeper understanding. We have used the 'I do, we do, you do' technique to ensure children are confident when answering question types which require them to show their knowledge of phrases and language.
Finger dance party!
Today we used our funky fingers to sing and dance to rhymes, we loved one potato, two potato, Tommy thumb, incy wincy spider, twinkle twinkle, Grandmas glasses and many more. We had great fun!
Supersorting
Year Two were busy sorting materials according to their different properties in Science this week. They worked in small groups and had to find objects within the classroom and match theme to the property displayed on the label. We soon realised that some objects fitted into 2 or more…
Planning for writing
Year 6 have been planning a formal letter. Sharks will be writing as Ayesha, the protagonist from our class text 'Oranges in No-Man's Land', attempting to persuade Dr Leila to provide medicine for her sick Grandma. The children have considered the main plot and shown their understanding in…
Deforestation Debate
We enjoyed using the opinion starters to argue why deforestation is a bad idea. We were very impressed with how many facts we remembered from last week!
Eid Food Tasting
Thank you so much for you kind donations of delicious food. The children were SO excited to try and it was a big thumbs up from us!
Marvellous maths
This week in Maths, the children were introduced to a new skill to help them when dividing 2, 3 and 4 digit numbers. This skill was short division using the bus stop method. At first the children found this very tricky but by the end of the week the children have become more confident, some…
Exciting Eid
On Friday afternoon, we tried some wonderful traditional Eid food prepared for us by our very generous parents and celebrated Eid by taking part in a fantastic activity, drawing our own Mehndi intricate patterns!
Eid Mubarak!
We have had a lovely time celebrating Eid this afternoon. Miss Nisa bought in a fabulous cake for us to share and organised food and drinks. Thankyou to our parents who also contributed to the party.
We have also made Eid cards and listened to a very informative assembly about why Muslims…
Eid celebrations
Sharks enjoyed sampling authentic food and creating cards to celebrate Eid. Eid Mubarak!
Exciting Eid assembly!
Waterside was lucky enough to welcome a very special visitor today for a special assembly all about Eid. The pupils were very respectful and learnt lots of interesting facts.