Term 4 Week 6
Dear parents, We have had a really exciting last week completing exciting Easter activities, such as basket weaving, making Easter baskets out of junk modelling, using different materials to make bunny ears, looking at the life cycles of different animals, Easter egg collages and doing some lovely Spring writing. In Maths, we have been exploring […]
Term 4 week 5
Dear Parents, It has been an exciting week of challenge in Kites, so we hope they are not too tired. The children have been learning about perseverance and challenging themselves through different activities. They have been creating their own versions of an Easter card (independently) and writing Spring poetry after spotting signs of Spring at […]
Term 4 Week 4
Dear Parents, We have had a very exciting and successful STEM week with the theme of time! On Monday, Johnson Matthey came in and gave us a workshop on ‘spinning through space’ and in assembly Johnson Matthey showed us the effects of an iodine clock reaction! We completed an apple oxidation experiment, where we sliced […]
Term 4 week 3
Dear parents, We have loved becoming storytellers this week and dressing up for World Book Day as adjectives! Here is a list of the adjectives that Kites dressed up as: Brave, hurt, hungry, scary, sparkly, fantastic, lazy, brave, stunning, speedy, jumpy, stunning, expressive, royal, cosy, camouflaged, brave, sparkly, bony, colourful, snowy, magical, tired, fierce, normal, […]
Term 4 week 2
Dear Parents, What an exciting week we have had! The children have been looking at how we keep healthy this week. We have had the Dentist surgery set up in our role play area and the children have been checking out each other’s healthy smiles. We were also visited by the lovely dental nurses: Amy […]
Term 4 Week 1
Dear Parents, Welcome back after your half term! This week, we have been looking at our locality and the superheroes within it. The children have been identifying and creating emergency vehicles from junk modelling as well as making hats of those superheroes who wear a uniform. They have been exploring non-fiction books to gain more […]
Term 3 Week 5
Kung hei fat choi 2024 Kites Parents! This week we have been learning about Chinese New Year and Buddhism. We have been making lucky cats, Chinese lanterns, bookmarks with Chinese symbols, writing our numbers in Chinese as well as the practising the art of using chopsticks. The highlight of our week was our Chinese Dragon […]
Term 3 Week 4
Dear Parents, We have been exploring feelings this week! We have been learning different strategies to help us regulate our emotions, such as the Butterfly Hug, The Body Scan and Energy Ball. We have been sorting emotions into positive; negative and mixed emotions groups; drawing where our calm space is at home and at school; […]
Term 3 Week 3
Dear Parents, After our Science Oxford workshop last week, we have been focusing on Materials all around us this week! We have had a great week testing out different materials and exploring their properties. We tested the absorbency of nappies, by weighing them before and after adding water and discussing the changes we saw as […]
Term 3 Week 2
Dear Parents, We have had a really fun week expressing ourselves through art and music! The children have been making colour sums, they have done this by painting one hand blue, for example and another yellow and then mixing the colours on their hands together to show what colour it makes! They had a great […]
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