Year 4 have been busy in their art lessons this week, creating their own Aztec-inspired artwork using oil pastel and watercolour.
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Designing sky scrapers in maths
Today we designed our own sky scrapers for Queen’s Hills. Mrs James told us that every day for a week, we could add two windows. In pairs we designed our sky scrapers and wrote addition and multiplication sentences to find out how many windows we would have built by the end of the week. We found out that:
2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 14 windows
7 x 2 + 14 windows
Ancient Greeks next week!
In the last week, we have delved deeper into the characters and settings in Shadow of the Minotaur and have created some excellent descriptive pieces from this stimulus in our English lessons.We enjoyed our Maths Cafe on Monday too, where we all tackled mathematical problems themed around looking after some unusual pets!
We are looking forwards to our visit from History Off the Page for an Ancient Greek workshop next Wednesday (16th October) and can’t wait to dress up for this – have a look at these websites for costume ideas if you’re stuck!
https://www.ehow.com/how_12126318_make-ancient-greek-clothing-kids.htmlhttps://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Quick-Greek-Goddess-Costume
Another busy week in Reception
This week we have been exploring the autumn colours, leaves and objects. The children collected and sorted the leaves in different ways. The children have been enjoying exploring how much a number represents with some numberblocks construction this week.
Maths in year 1
This week our children enjoyed problem solving using the part part whole model.
Amelia Earhart
n topic this week, we ordered the photographs chronologically from Amelia Earhart’s photo album. We had to work as detectives and look closely at her face in the photographs. Here are some photographs from our lesson:
Learning all about food miles
Today we learned what food miles are. Then, we created a harvest plate and labelled how many miles the food has traveled to reach our plate in the UK.
Year 2 Flight Cafe
We want to say a big thank you to all the parents/carers who came to our Flight Cafe this week. The children enjoyed designing their own aeroplanes!
Another Busy Week in Reception
This week has been a busy one and we have done incredibly well attending school for a full day this week!
We started phonics this week and have so far learnt the sounds m,a,s,d,t. The dinosaurs helped with our writing – around the dinosaur’s bottom, up his tall neck and down to his feet!
If you’d like to find out more about phonics look at: https://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/find-out-more/parents/
Earthsong 2019
At Queen’s Hill, we care about climate change. Here is our version of the Earthsong, organised and arranged by our school ambassadors thanks to Torquay Girls’ Grammar School. These children are encouraging everyone to sign the following petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/272167