Author: Beth Ings
Watercolouring!
Who gets watercolours out on a Friday afternoon when the children are in their own clothes? Class 4 do!
We had a great afternoon exploring with watercolours in our art lesson; the children experimented by creating a colour chart in their books starting with dark and fading to light. The…
Posted by Beth Ings on 13 November 2020
Category: Class of 2016
Class 4 does Children in Need!
Miss Ings and Mrs Turner are super impressed with the efforts from everyone to celebrate Children in Need. We used this opportunity to discuss those who need extra support and why this charity is important.
Posted by Beth Ings on 13 November 2020
Category: Class of 2016
Tags: Class 3/4
Remembrance Day Poetry
Bramham Church asked a few children in Class Four to create a poem based around Remembrance Day. Miss Ings worked with Mustafa, Thomas, Ava and Bella to create an acrostic poem around the 'Poppy'. They worked really hard to capture the true meaning of the day and showed great empathy towards the…
Posted by Beth Ings on 6 November 2020
Category: Class of 2016
Tags: Class 3/4 English PSHE History
Finding France!
Class 4 have worked so hard during their week off to create a fact file all about France! We find it so important that the children are given a chance to showcase their learning and develop their confidence by presenting back to one another. It was a fantastic afternoon and I am so proud of all…
Posted by Beth Ings on 6 November 2020
Category: Class of 2016
Rumble on the playground!
Class 4 have had a great time during their Topic learning of 'Europe'. This year, is the first year we have looked specifically at earthquakes and volcanoes. The class were so intrigued by their learning we tasked them with creating their own volcanoes and then, with Mrs Turner, they had a fun…
Posted by Beth Ings on 22 October 2020
Category: Class of 2016
What's that sound?
Class 4 have come to the end of their SITE learning, which was all about sound this half term.
Luckily for Miss Ings and Mrs Turner, the classroom is much quieter without the instruments we've been investigating. However, what better way to showcase this learning than by getting the class to…
Posted by Beth Ings on 21 October 2020
Category: Class of 2016
Tags: Design Technology Science
Getting Arty!
Class 4 have been studying Quentin Blake this half term, learning all his different techniques and the amazing work he has created. As our final show stopping piece, the class were tasked with recreating Anatole (our English story) in the style of Quentin Blake. Mrs Turner was so impressed by…
Posted by Beth Ings on 21 October 2020
Category: Class of 2016
Tags: Art
On your marks, get set...GO!
Class 4 have been braving all weathers to get their PE lessons in.
They were put through their paces by Miss Ings and her warm up activities; balancing on one-leg to stretching their muscles and then they were ready to run, run, run!
Recently, we have been looking at running techniques and…
Posted by Beth Ings on 13 October 2020
Category: Class of 2016
Tags: PE
Art - show me your funny faces!
Class 4 have been continuing to explore the techniques of Quentin Blake in art. Today, they were using his styles, techniques and pencils to draw different faces that showed different emotions. Before learning this skill, they had fun showing emotions with their own facial expresses.
They had…
Posted by Beth Ings on 7 October 2020
Category: Class of 2016
Miss, what does orienteering mean?
Unfortunately, last week PE was stormed off due to forever changing British weather! With that in mind, we set the lesson for today and you can imagine how many times the class asked "what is orienteering?". After completing it, they should be able to tell you!
Orienteering is an outdoor…
Posted by Beth Ings on 29 September 2020
Category: Class of 2016
English in Class 4
This week we have been super busy in English.
We start every lesson with spelling practice; this week it has been -ure words. There were some tricky ones like 'fissure' and 'cynosure' so we used a dictionary to look up their definitions. The children showed fantastic skills with using a…
Posted by Beth Ings on 24 September 2020
Category: Class of 2016
What's that sound?
Today, we took advantage of the lovely weather by taking our SITE lesson outside.
We were investigating how sounds are made and discovered that it is the vibration of an object that makes the sound. We watched an experiment where Miss Ings put sand on a drum and hit it; we saw the sand move…
Posted by Beth Ings on 16 September 2020
Category: Class of 2016