In our workshop this week the children were challenged to make their own Christmas tree decoration. They had to cut the plate to make a spiral shape and mix the correct colours to make green.

Last week in 1C we began to explore clay. In our Art lessons we have been working on sketching ourselves and our partner. We looked at the shapes we could see when sketching and tried to create these with clay. We practised techniques such as rolling and pinching to create a model of our partner.

On Friday, 1C made vegetable soup! In Writing this half term we have been learning about instruction writing. This week, the children will be writing instructions about how to make soup. This meant that when we were making the soup, we had to think really carefully about each step and what we were doing. We remembered to use “bossy verbs” such as chop, slice and grate to describe what we were doing. Some children then helped Ms Tarbin put the soup on to boil in the Cafe before we blended it and tasted some ourselves! Well done everyone, I can’t wait to read your instructions about this!

Last week at ACE we did lots of learning for Anti-Bullying Week. The children all learnt a ‘Stop Bullying’ rap. They absolutely loved practising this in class!

This week in writing we have been learning instructions for how to make a marmalade sandwich. We practised the story map and then the children made their own marmalade sandwiches. They had to practise following instructions with their partner, thinking about which bossy verbs to use and what order to do the instructions in. We loved trying the marmalade sandwiches. They were very tasty!

In R.E we started learning about the Christmas story. We talked about the characters, setting and beginning, middle and end of the story.

This half term our topic is “We Are One”. Through this topic, we are learning about our country and what is means to be “one”. In our role play area we introduced an “International Cafe”. We looked at what countries our families are from and what kind of food we might eat in these countries.

In D.T this week we practised the technique of sewing. We talked about what we might need sewing for and then practised how to do a running stitch. We used big netting and ribbon so that we could really focus on the technique of going in and out.

In Art today we enjoyed sketching fish. We used a real fish from the supermarket to help us with our drawings. We had to think about what we already knew about fish like they have scales, gills and fins. We had to focus hard on drawing what we could see and taking our time. I was really impressed with how the children persevered and created some very careful, detailed drawings!

This week in Science we identified what a carnivore, herbivore and an omnivore is. As part of our learning around this, Mrs Tatham-Hall made some animal playdough poos with either “meat”, “plants” or both in. The children then had to dig around in their poos and decide if the animal this poo came from was a carnivore, herbivore or an omnivore. The children did some great investigation work. They then wrote questions about this and thought of which animal could have done this poo!