Class 9 went outside today to do some spontaneous teamwork this afternoon… all thanks to the snow. The class were split into two teams and challenged to see who could build the best snowman. After a bit of a rocky start with children wanting to just do their own thing, Read more…
This week we have worked on our speaking and listening skills by working in groups to act out the story of the Three Little Pigs. We used our knowledge and understanding of the story to retell the key events in the correct order. We had to retell the story loudly Read more…
The children in nursery have been enjoying looking at books in our reading area. The children are learning early reading skills, for example, holding the books the correct way up and turning the pages carefully.
Here are some more pictures from Spring group’s activities at Robinwood. Language and communication skills were vital in successfully navigating these particular tasks.
In our first Language and Communication lesson of this half term we considered the question, ‘Should physical labour be used as a form of punishment?’ The words they were asked to consider were: punishment character inhumane society This question has come about because in Holes, our current English text, a Read more…
Nursery have had lots of fun making marks in the snow. This week we have also been learning about winter and what better way to do that than to explore in the snow. The snow gave us lots of learning opportunities and supported communication and language as we discussed the Read more…
As part of our Literacy in Class 11, we participated in a language and communication lesson asking the question ‘How can our past experiences in life positively affect our future?’ This linked to our biography work where we found out that many authors such as J K Rowling and Charles Read more…
Class 14 are currently typing news reports on our Purple Mash platform. The children have been working on their Oliver Twist based news reports across the past week and completed their special write yesterday. Now they must work in pairs to verbalise, edit and improve their pieces. This opportunity to Read more…
Our language and communication lesson was linked to our writing topic of biographies. The famous authors we read about often had been through tough times and suffered loss or hardship, we discussed how this had actually had a positive impact on their futures and made them resilient and defiant in Read more…
In Beliefs and Values we have been looking at rules and routines, within this we looked at what honest means and the 10 commandments. The children ordered the commandments deciding which ones were important to them as a group. They had good ideas and worked well as groups to create Read more…