Number day

We had a fantastic day with maths on Number Day in Years 1 and 2! We rotated through so many activities exploring and investigating number. Take a look at our pictures below.

Trip to David Cliff Estate Agents

We just escaped the rain as we had an interesting walk to and from David Cliff Estate Agents. Our walk took us past various buildings we have studied and talked about. The children were able to talk about the differences between what they saw and pictures they had seen of Binfield in the past; we were also able to picture how things would have looked different in the past.

Once we were inside the Estate Agents we learnt about the different steps involved in selling and buying a house. There was plenty of time to ask questions and the children enthusiastically showed off much of their learning by asking thoughtful and relevant questions.

The walk and visit were worthwhile, year 1/2 were impeccably behaved and once again we could be proud of Newbold Children.

Hi Vicky

David and I just wanted to send you a quick note to say what a pleasure it was to accommodate your brilliantly behaved students today and we hope they found it interesting and that they all took something positive from the exercise.

If you need anything else from us in the future, please do get in touch :0)

Kind Regards,

Matthew Mullane

The Sun

Today we've been learning all about the sun. What a wonderful afternoon we've had! So much so, that they would like to look at the websites we've been researching on even more at home.

http://www.planetsforkids.org/star-sun.html this website gives some really interesting information about the sun, as well as other planets.

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html here we've been 'watching' the sun go round the earth! If you could visit early in the morning, or just before bed you would see an even larger difference.

We look forward to finding out even more in the coming weeks!

Our class free verse poem

We've been studying poetry in English and today we wrote a free verse poem together about a game we love to play. We wanted to share this with you! 

Bull Dog, Crawl Dog

First I ran as fast as I could to the other side. 
I felt energetic because I had room for the energy because I just jumped with people.

Afterwards, when we got to the end I was out of breath. I had to run a mile and I dribbled past the catchers!

Much later all my friends were playing crawl dog. My three friends were playing crawl dog it was hard and if you got to the other side you won!

Finally a foolish dog catches me. 

Reindeer visit our school!!

Last week we got to experience 2 reindeer in our playground at school, and what an incredible start to the Christmas season this was! We learnt lots of information about reindeer, from how often and when they shed their antlers to how Rudolph got his red nose ;) We even enjoyed feeding them too!

They were an awesome sight to experience and a memory the children (and us staff!) will keep forever.

Vet Visit!

We have been enjoying our Science lessons so much this term. Towards the end of the term we've been learning about the features of different animals (as well as Humans), so what better way to learn than to see what a Vet does.

A veterinary nurse from a practise nearby brought a dog (toy ...) for the children to operate on. They looked fantastic all dressed up and tackled the operation superbly!

The session finished with the children getting to feed some real guinea pigs and learn all about carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.

It was a wonderful visit and think there may now be some budding future Vets in our class!

Making Sensory Boards

In Science this half term we have been learning about our senses. To finish off this topic the children decided to make some sensory boards for the children in F1 to use. They included the senses of touch, sight and even smell into their sensory boards!

I was amazed at their skills of using a glue gun during this activity. Very little adult help was needed as the children took control and complete independence in their work. 

A week later we went into F1 to share our work with them, we hope they enjoyed exploring them as much as we did making them!