We take inspiration from Isaiah 40:31, “They will soar on wings like eagles; They will run and not grow weary; They will walk and not be faint.” to ‘Soar on Wings’ in our school. We all worked together in our circle groups to think about what this means for us. We presented our thoughts in lots of different ways. Can you ‘Soar on Wings’?
Emerald Class Activities
Summer Reading Challenge
A librarian for Great Yarmouth Library visited us to present the pupils who had completed the Summer Reading       Challenge with their medal and certificate. An amazing 28 pupils completed the challenge! We are so proud of them.
World Book Day
Everyone in school celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as a character from a book and sharing that book with their House group. They also wrote a book review recommending why others should read the book.
Investigating Algorithms
By breaking down a story into individual elements and rearranging them , the Reception children have learned the importance of following a sequence. They have used this computational thinking process to understand the order of stories and rhymes.
Robot Algorithms
The Years 1 and 2 have been using commands in different orders to investigate how the order affects the outcome. They also learned about designing in programs, designing their own algorithms as programs and debugging them.
Poetry
In Sapphire Class we worked together to select, rehearse and perform our own group poems. We worked together in small groups and had to think carefully about how we would use our voices, changing the speed, tone and volume of our voices to put on a good performance! We then performed these confidently at the poetry festival and reflected on how our performances went.
Sense of Smell
In our Senses topic, we used spices and herbs to explore our sense of smell.
We took turns to smell the herbs and spices and then described what they reminded us of.
Iria said, “Cinnamon reminds me of Christmas.”
Ivy said, “Ginger makes me think about gingerbread men.”
Xach said, “This smells spicy like curry.”
Tasting Crackers
In science we have learned about our senses. We investigated taste using a selection of different crackers. We thought about what flavours we could taste and described them as ‘salty, sweet, plain, cheesy and spicy’.
“I like the cheese crackers best,” Said Ayla.
Size Ordering
Reception have been ordering items by their size. They used the words ‘bigger’ and ‘smaller’, ‘longer’ and ‘shorter’ to compare.