The OwlsCommunication and Interaction Inclusion Centre |
Spring Term 2023 |
Andy GoldsworthyAs our spring term art week, the children learned about Andy Goldsworthy and looked at a large variety of his pictures of natural sculptures. They used natural items to recreate his work and looked for patterns in his pictures. They also used beans, pulses and pasta to create their own circular patterns. |
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Circus WeekThis topic encouraged the children to develop their balance & co-ordination skills as they had daily sessions for a week, learning how to perform circus skills with a circus performer. The balanced plates on sticks, juggled balls, scarves and feathers and even use stilts and tightropes. On the last day the children dressed up and the circus came to school! |
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Learning SuperheroesThe children were focused on the superheroes around them in their own school community, looking at what people do in their days that is like one of our school learning superheros’ characteristics. They then painted their favourite learning superhero. |
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Growing plants & Cress!The children have been learning about plant growth and they decided to plants some bulbs and cress seeds to see how far theirs might grow. The cress grew quickly and we experimented to see what happened when half of it was put in a dark cupboard to grow. They carefully observed the shoots over a few weeks. They then watched their bulbs begin to grow and will hopefully see them flower in the new term. |
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Chinese New YearThe children celebrated the Chinese New Year by making lanterns, Chinese writing signs and lucky moneybags, which contained chocolate coins. They found the writing tricky but preserved and did a good job. They used their cutting skills to make slits in the lantern and make their bags |
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Spring & EasterNow spring is in the air, the children have been searching for signs of spring. They have thought about the changes and the new life they can see. |
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This also tied in with learning about the Christian Easter story and why we have Easter eggs as a symbol of new life. They also had an Easter bunny sensory story. They enjoyed an Easter egg hunt and made Easter cards. |
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Autumn Term 2022 |
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WelcomeThe new Owls have settled in really well this year and have enjoyed making new friends and learning new routines. Our days have been very busy with new opportunities for learning and experiencing some new things. |
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AutumnThe children have been learning about the seasons and we listened to the story of Percy the Park Keeper ‘After the storm’. We used our senses to investigate autumnal objects and we tried to describe what we observed. |
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Nursery RhymesThis half term we have been learning all about Nursery Rhymes. We read the book ‘Each Peach Pear Plum’ by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. The book is full of Nursery Rhyme characters and we followed our story map and then used actions to help us remember the story. We enjoyed learning new and old rhymes. We looked at historical artefacts that might have been found in the kitchen of the Nursery Rhyme character, Old Mother Hubbard. |
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Our BodiesIn science we have been learning about our bodies, how we are all different and similar. We learnt body parts and looked at our eye and hair colour, and how big our hands and feet were. We also looked carefully at ourselves and created self- portraits |
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Monster Names
We have been learning about writing our names correctly and practising in lots of different ways. One way was to paint it and fold it, to create a reflection and turn it into a monster! |
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Maps Our year 1 & 2 Owls have been learning about the local area and what makes up a town. We looked at maps and then as a team created a new town map with our own choice of features.
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Lowry We have an art week based on the artist Lowry. We looked at his work and recreated our own ‘Our Town’ pictures with gloomy skies and dull factory buildings with lots of Lowry style figures. We also looked at the factory work and learned how to use a loom and did some weaving of our own. |
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ChristmasWe have had lots of fun preparing for Christmas. We made decorations at our Santa’s workshop, played party games and danced at our Christmas party and made cards, calendars and mini trees for our families.
Merry Christmas everyone! |
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