In Eagles Class we have been learning about food during World War 2. We have learnt that some foods were rationed and in class we created our own Wartime Loaf.
We have also been learning about ‘Dig for Victory.’ We have learnt that during World War 2, The Ministry of Food encouraged people not to waste food and to grow their own.
Twelve children represented Houghton Conquest Lower School in a Sports hall Athletics event. All the children showed the school’s core values and we are very proud of them all.
Robins had a visitor last week who came to tea… We read the story of The Tiger Who Came to Tea. We looked at the past and present, cars, milk floats, grocery deliveries by bike, kettle on the cooker etc. We completed the end of our week with our Robin’s Birthday Party.
Robins have been learning about Remembrance and the importance of poppies and created our own wreath. We introduced Florence Nightingale and they practised their first aid on the babies by cleaning their wounds, putting a plaster on and then bandages.
The children in Doves class have been learning about old and new toys in History this term. They have created their own wooden spoon toy using different materials.
Our Year 4 students shared their Remembrance poems which they had written throughout the week and we observed a minutes’ silence during the assembly. The Year 4 children also created a wreath that was presented during the Remembrance Sunday service at All Saints Church.
This week we have recently changed the way we deliver our phonics in preschool, the children have had a wonderful time exploring the letter S sound through objects, listening to stories with S sounds, finding letter S words in the book and learning how to sound the S out phonetically. Our school leavers children have been amazing at this and have really progressed showing a great understanding.
Hawks class have mummified an apple – we have been researching instruction writing in Literacy and created a set of instructions for this experiment. The ancient Egyptians would clean the body before removing the organs and drying out the body. They used natron (a natural type of salt) to do this. We experimented with using salt and bicarbonate soda to dry out our apples before wrapping them up in tissue paper.
