Shackadell

Shackadell class have loved maths week! We started the week in our whole school assembly thinking about all of the different ways that we use maths every day. We started […] […]

This week we have really enjoyed reading ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’ by Jill Tomlinson. The story was a great follow on from learning about celebrations that […] […]

We use a wide variety of construction materials both inside and outside. When we are constructing with different materials, we are practising lots of different skills. We are planning, designing, […] […]

We absolutely love learning in our outdoor spaces. We have been enjoying our Forest School sessions already and have been very busy exploring our school grounds. We love to learn […] […]

We have already been very busy drawing and writing for many different purposes. Some of us are mark making in our role play, such as when we are pretending to […] […]

We have loved welcoming our new children to Shackadell class! It has been lovely to see so many smiling faces and the children have settled well into school life at […] […]

Following on from our trip to the zoo we have written recounts about our day. Firstly we created maps of our journey through the zoo, remembering the order of the […] […]

Shackadell class went to Hertfordshire zoo. We have been learning all about dinosaurs recently and we really enjoyed the dinosaur trail at the zoo. It was amazing to see how […] […]

We love our daily maths lessons in Shackadell class. This year we have really been mastering our numbers and having a deep understanding of each of them. We use lots […] […]

This year we have been learning how to play the glockenspiel. We have learned how to keep the pulse to a range of different backing tracks. Here is the final […] […]

We have had a fantastic time during ‘Box week’. We read some different books all about what you can make with a cardboard box. It was exciting to be able […] […]

We have been learning so much about animals! Following on from our trip to the allotments to find out about local wildlife, we have been learning all about wildlife in […] […]

We have been thinking a lot about our local area and the environment we live in. We have been talking about the kinds of plants and animals that live in […] […]

Shackadell loved spending time working on our World Book Day book – ‘Here we are’ by Oliver Jeffers. We thought about things we find in space, in the sea, on […] […]

Recently we have loved the freezing cold weather and we have been enjoying looking at the ice in our outdoor classroom so we decided to make our very own ice decorations. […] […]

We have started the new year with a BANG, CRASH and ZAP as we have been learning all about superheroes! We started off by reading ‘There’s a superhero in your […] […]

We were very excited to perform our Nativity – A Bundle of Joy! We worked really hard on a variety of skills for this performance. Singing, dancing, using our performance […] […]

We have been working hard and learning all about space. We designed and created our own spaceships, working towards our curriculum ambition of creating intricate junk models. We used our […] […]

Today in ‘Drawing Club’ we drew some dragons after reading ‘Room on the broom’ by Julia Donaldson. After lunch, a very special visitor arrived in our classroom…Daisy the dragon!! We […] […]

This week we have been learning all about Autumn. We were excited to go on an Autumn walk around the village and invited our grown-ups to come in and join […] […]

We have been reading one of our favourite books ‘The Gruffalo’ by Julia Donaldson. We have created a 3D story maps to help us to retell the story. We also […] […]

We have been exploring lots of different books in our class already. We love drawing club and have been going on our own story adventures. We enjoy reading books during […] […]

We have been settling in to our indoor and outdoor classrooms. We love to learn by exploring all of the resources that we have. Our teachers spend time teaching us […] […]

We had such a wonderful time today caring for our babies! We were able to feed and change them when they needed it and were responsible for keeping them safe […] […]

We have been learning all about the lifecycle of a butterfly. We had free choice about the resources we could use to represent our life cycle. We can all explain […] […]

We love using our potion area to make different magical potions. We use lots of different skills such as choosing, snipping, crushing, mixing and smelling. We use petals, citrus fruit […] […]

When we went into the Forest School area last week we noticed that something had been digging up the ground. We decided to investigate and try and find out what […] […]

In Shackadell class we absolutely love maths! In the Early Years we spend a lot of time mastering our maths skills especially in counting. We love to use maths manipulatives, […] […]

Following on from our learning about Superheroes we have been learning all about people who help us in real life. We have been reading books such as ‘Real Superheroes’ by […] […]

Between the 8th January and 19th February Shackadell will be taking part in the RSPB’s Big School’s Bird Watch. We have been looking at different types of birds and how […] […]

In PSHE we have been learning about how to take care of our teeth and the importance of a healthy diet and brushing them twice a day for 2 minutes. […] […]

We have had an amazing time this week exploring the ice created by this very cold weather! We spent time hunting around our garden for ice that had been formed […] […]

This week we were thrilled to perform our Nativity – The Sleepy Shepherd. We have worked really hard to learn our lines, songs and dance moves in order to perform […] […]

We have been reading Christmas books all about posting – “The Jolly Postman” and “Paddington’s Christmas post”. This week we created our own Christmas cards for our parents. We were […] […]

We have been learning all about space and how real astronauts travel to space. We have looked at the types of vehicles they use including rockets and space shuttles. We […] […]

We were excited to have a visit from our local Police Community Support Officers. They told us all about their jobs and we got to look at the police car. […] […]

We have been learning all about Diwali. We read a brilliant book called ‘Little Glow’ by Katie Sahota which explains about lots of different festivals. We loved making our own […] […]

We have been learning all about colours and colour mixing. We read a fantastic book called ‘Mixed’ by Arree Chung’. It tells a story of a city of Blues, Reds […] […]

We are excited that we get to take part in cooking club. Joyce, our wonderful cook, helps us to learn about healthy eating and cooking. We made some really delicious […] […]

We love playing in the water and are able to learn so much about scientific concepts such as floating and sinking and how bubbles are formed. During child-initiated learning (CIL) […] […]

Cutting is one of the skills that we spend a long time working in Shackadell class. Some of us are learning to control scissors by snipping paper and some of […] […]