Robin Hood Primary School
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Spring Term
Today the children created their pictures of The Great Fire of London, to start off our new project with our essential question being ‘how can lessons from history keep us safe today?’
In English, the children have been immersing themselves in instructions / commands and had a wonderful time giving and following commands.
We have continued our application of pictorial drawings to help us calculate addition with two digit numbers.
In English, we have been investigating a written set of instructions from George’s Marvellous Medicine, to see if we could spot any of the key features. We then looked at a variety of different ingredients which we could add to prepare ourselves for our own written instructions for George’s Marvellous Medicine.
In History, the children have been researching into The Great Fire of London. They used articles, artefacts and the internet to support their investigations.
The children had an amazing time creating their marvellous medicines from the instructions that they had written the day before. They worked incredibly well together and loved the results.
After learning about instructions and writing their own, the children made their own Tudor Houses linking to The Great Fire of London. To cement this learning, we will then burn them at a later date.
To start our new diary unit in English, we explored the different features in a variety of diary entries and focused on key texts to support understanding of a good example.
In English, the children sorted common and proper nouns linking to The Great Fire of London. They then wanted to have a go at practising writing about The Great Fire of London. They have loved learning about this period in history ahead of writing their diary entry about it.
In maths, we have really enjoyed learning about money and identifying differences and similarities in shapes using a Venn diagram in geometry.
Ambassador Games
We have started our next unit in English, which is letter writing. To start, we designed our own Flat Stanley’s, which will send alongside our letters to recipients across the world.
The children have been learning about Nottingham today by collecting facts in a bank to use them later on in their writing.
The children explored a poem about The Great Fire of London during Arts Week. In these sessions, we used oracy skills to discuss talking points relating to the poem and placed them on a continuum line. This required the children to listen to each others opinions and offer suggestions, as well as come to a decision together. They also practised the poem within small groups, learning a stanza each. This was then recorded and will be shared with parents.
The children were given the challenge of creating a vehicle with moving wheels. One of our children challenged herself even further and created this excellent wheelchair with moving wheels. The children also worked in pairs and used many oracy skills to do this successfully.
What an amazing day we had! The children got to meet the firefighters, ask questions about the profession and even have a go with the hose! This was also as well as finding out more about The Great Fire of London and impressing them with our knowledge of this time in history.
The children have really enjoyed making their vehicles today with moving wheels as part of their DT project.
Today saw the end of our project and our essential question of ‘how can lessons from history keep us safe today?’ We’ve had a wonderful time learning about The Great Fire of London and all about the past and present fire services. We absolutely loved seeing our mini Great Fire of London burn and were amazed at how quickly it caught fire and disappeared!
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