Category: Our Classes

This week, we have been learning about structures. Our first job was to find and name natural and manmade structures in our outdoor playground and then we had great fun exploring different construction materials to find out what makes a stable structure.

And just like that, it’s the half term! What a busy week we’ve had to finish off the half term.

We also started our new book, Send for a Superhero! by Michael Rosen,  a very funny superhero adventure in an exciting blend of picture book and comic book storytelling. We have been describing the villains, Filth and Vacuum and predicting what might happen next in the story. If you would like to share this story at home, have a watch below:

We also performed our class song, Big Red Combine Harvester, at the Harvest assembly this week. Even though we were a little nervous at first, we really enjoyed sharing our hard work with the rest of the school.

We also enjoyed having a tennis session with Mr Curry from Batchwood tennis club. We learnt lots of tricks with the rackets to improve our hand/eye coordination and got used to handling the tennis balls too.

Have a lovely half term and a well earned rest,

Miss Battams 🙂

Year 4 explored this today. The Land of the monks is St Albans Cathedral and its surrounding area – nowadays a parkland, the stamping ground of squirrels, dogs and their owners, cathedral visitors and worshippers and people en route to somewhere in town or walking to enjoy the scenery. Several centuries ago it was the site of a bustling, crowded complex of buildings where the various Abbey activities took place. Apart from some walls, nothing remains of the life led by the monks above ground. Today, the year 4 children used topographical (map) evidence and compasses to find where some of these activities took place, and also to find out a bit about the lives of the monks and the Abbot. Everyone found out really interesting things about Medieval monastic life. We also used found the cathedral, the school and local towns on Ordnance Survey maps. Our local knowledge was also enhanced by our walk to the cathedral, when the children walked smartly, showing manners to any members of the public and enjoyed seeing the sights and sounds of St Albans on a typical Friday morning.

Can your children tell you how to use a compass? And can they explain what happened in a scriptorium, Chapter House, refectory or dormitory? What other parts of the abbey can they name?

A massive thank you to the Mums – Mrs Miller, Mrs Watson and Mrs Worsley – who accompanied us and helped with the learning inside and outside. It wouldn’t be possible to do these valuable enrichment activities without this voluntary support. Thank you for offers of help from other parents and I will let you know of other trips later in the year.

It’s been another busy week in Year 1! From internet safety in Computing to comparing dogs and humans in Science, we’ve covered it all it seems in Year 1 this week.

We started off the week with some e-safety in Computing. We discussed what information we should share, including personal information like our home address or other information such as our favourite colour. We then worked in groups to sort the information we should share and not share.

In Maths, we have been using part whole models to help us find all the ways to make a particular number (number bonds). We have enjoyed using the models and the counters to help us find these number bonds.

Thank you all for your generous Harvest donations. If you do have anymore donations, please can we have them in by early next week. We have been practising our Harvest song ready to perform in the Harvest assembly next week too.

Miss Battams 🙂