Diamond Class
The teacher in Diamond class is Mrs Rounce. In the morning Mrs Smith teaches Year 2 and 3 in Sapphire Class. Mrs Glover and Miss Wollington support teaching and learning in Diamond class.
Home learning tasks can be found on Google classroom
Recent Activities
The whole school, Emerald Class and Diamond Class all as a whole active learning school, went on a school trip to Gressenhall to learn about the what Stone Age people would do to survive the Stone Age and the Palaeolithic times.
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This half term in computing we have been learning how to keep ourselves safe online. We watched the CEOPs ‘Play, Like, Share’ animated series which provided us with knowledge, skills and confidence we need to deal with the risks we might encounter online. We all participated in many meaningful discussions, and tested our online safety knowledge by answering questions and drawing labelled diagrams. We ended our unit on online safety by playing ‘Band Runner’ a fun, interactive game in which we had to help our character make safe online choices.
We met to organise our responsibilities and duties for the year. We discussed how to ensure our school is a safe community where everyone shares a love of learning. We are going to ensure all pupils have a reflection area where they can have quiet time and an area where they can play with new equipment. Look out for updates as to what we have achieved!
We have been learning about Stone Age cave paintings in art lessons. We studied the cave paintings in Spain and in France and realised that most depicted animals, man and hunting. We learned about the types of materials they would have used to create them and then we painted our own cave paintings. We even used our own made charcoal that we made in the fire in our forest school session.
This week our forest school’s session started with the tennis ball game. This game extended our listening skills as many balls were being thrown at the same time. We learned how rafts were tied together using ‘floor lashing’ to make it secure. Using a fire flint and striker, we each had a turn to catch a small piece of cotton wool alight – it was much harder than it looked! We ended the lesson with cooking our own marshmallows over the fire. What a lovely way to end this term’s forest school’s session.
The whole school visited Tacon’s Farm to learn how potatoes, onions and pumpkins are grown. Each pupil picked their own potato and onion and Year 6s were lucky and got to pick a pumpkin each. We will be using the produce to make pumpkin soup and potatoes cons for our Harvest Festival celebrations so keep checking the website to see what we make!
A big thank you to Emma and Tacon’s Farm for teaching us about farming and for donating all we picked!
We wanted to thank Emma for teaching us about farming so we learned how to write thank you letters and then wrote our own. We tried to include all the features of a letter and then decorated them with images of the farm. We hope Emma likes them.
We started this week with creative art. Using a combination of salt dough and anything we found lying around outside, we made some interesting creations. Our session then split into different activities. We placed a piece of string around our feet and investigated what was going on in the ground beneath. We found lots of exciting bugs by sweeping them gently into plastic cups then we let them go again into their natural environment. The other activity combined our teamwork and construction skills to build a den using branches and leaves. We created some great dens.
Year 4, 5 and 6 read their own empathy stories to the Year 2 and 3s. Every story had a message about having empathy for others and Year 2 and 3 enjoyed learning from their peers the importance of understanding others.
In Sapphire Class, we have been learning about 3D shapes. We built a range of 3D shapes using Polydron, including hexahedrons, dodecahedrons and octahedrons! We talked about how many faces, vertices and edges the shapes have.
