Smashing second week!
Reception have had another super week. They have enjoyed exploring the provision further and are starting to build up friendships which has been so lovely to watch. We have enjoyed getting to know the children even more and finding out what they enjoy. Well done children.
Year One’s first week back!
Year 1 have returned to school ready to learn! They have been wonderful role models for our newest children and have hit the ground running with their learning. They are working hard to be metacognitive in phonics, learning about the place value of numbers and retelling traditional tales. Wow!…
Reception’s first week!
Our new Reception children have blown us away with how well they have settled into their first week at The Howard- superstars!
Here is a few snippets from their first week of fun. We cannot wait to spend the year with all of them, getting to know them, seeing them grow and most importantly of…
Bouncy Castle Fun!
Thank you for a wonderful morning on the bouncy castle!
Let’s go fly a kite!
We have had great fun this morning finishing off our ‘Carp Kites’ in DT. The children spent yesterday afternoon decorating their kites with tissue paper and this morning we constructed them. The children have had lots of fun flying their kites around our playground! Great work Year 1 and 2! Your…
Getting ready for year 3!
Year 2 are proving how ready they are for year 3. Today they have been practising subtracting with and without exchanging. They used base 10 and wrote on the tables to help them grasp the tricky concept of exchanging. They then moved on to their times tables and practised writing these. Finally…
Which material is the stretchiest and strongest?
We really enjoyed investigating our enquiry question in science today!
We tested lots of materials from marshmallows to tights to see which were the stretchiest and then evaluated our results.
Year 1 and 2 entertain royalty
The children in Year 1 & 2 had a wonderful afternoon learning more about Queen Elizabeth l and King Henry Vlll, as part of our history. They were given the task of acting as ‘jesters’, ‘kings’ or ‘queens’ to entertain each other. The royal jesters had a great time on stage entertaining our royal…
Which materials are opaque and which materials are transparent?
Key stage 1 have explored the meanings of opaque and transparent. They were set a challenge from NASA to find the best material for curtains to block out the sun on their next space mission. What fun we had exploring this question!
Shapes, shapes, shapes!
Reception have had a super week exploring 2D shapes. They have identified the number of sides of common 2D shapes, explored shapes that have been rotated and applied their knowledge to make tangram pictures. Fabulous work!
Which materials float and which materials sink?
Reception have continued their science learning studying the oceans. Today they have thought about which objects might float and which objects might sink. They talked about the materials the objects were made of and made predictions before testing them out. Super science work…
Which materials are absorbent?
Years 1 & 2 have been investigating the question “Which materials are absorbent?” They learnt how to conduct a fair test, interpret results and make a conclusion. Super science work everyone!