Beech Class and the Water Lily Pond

It's been great sharing our Home Learning about our Sporting Hero. There have been so many different choices, and we could all talk about why we like that person.

Today, we wore our sporty clothes to think about the Fun Run which is on 20th May. Lots of us would like to take part. We've brought sponsor forms home today. You can sign up here http://redbournfunrun.co.uk/

We've had great fun learning about Monet this week. We learnt some facts about him:
He was a famous artist. Lucas
He painted with oil paints. Benedict
He is more famous than Van Gogh! Mollie
Monet discovered Impressionism. Grace
This means it doesn't look exactly like photos, it's a bit fuzzy. He used quick brush strokes. Ross

We explored collage by finding out what we could do with a piece of tissue paper - twisting, scrunching,layering, tearing and folding. Then we applied our skills to create our own water lily collage inspired by our learning about Monet. Here are some of our collages- we worked really hard and persevered, using different skills. We were all able to talk about what we had enjoyed and done well as well as what we'd improve.

Mollie also continued her learning at home, by creating her own bridge and water lily pond picture using colouring pencils. We thought it looked great. Well done, Mollie. 

We continued learning netball skills. This week, we thought about shooting and we watched what the England Roses did. We had to stand with our feet shoulder width apart, with our knees a little bent. We learnt how to hold the ball to shoot and made great improvements with our shooting. 

We started practising our country dance- Buttered Peas, ready to show you just before half term. Well done to Tom and Poppy who are our May King and Queen.

Our home learning is to play a game with our family- thinking about sharing and taking turns!

This week, the Star Award is for applying learning.. Well done to Benedict, who thought really carefully about his collage skills to make his water lily and pond. 

Snowy Owl is going home with Charles this week. We've been so proud of how well Charles has concentrated on his art work and really persevered with his water lily. Well done Charles, have a great weekend with Snowy. 

Have a good weekend everyone. 

Welcome to Redbourn Primary School

We've had a very exciting first week at Redbourn Primary School. On Tuesday, Years 1 to 6 all went to an assembly together. We met Mrs Hinchliffe and she told us about her pets and answered questions some of us today. Today, we went outside for the opening ceremony, the Town Crier looked amazing in his red coat and we met our MP. A tree was planted and two of the children pulled a big red ribbon. We are very excited to be part of the school.

We started our Topic "All Aboard" with a trip to Buckinghamshire Railway Centre. We had lots of fun.

WE had fun on the steam train. I could hear a really loud sound.  Tom

At the end we went on a miniature train. We saw model and toys. Sophia

Roland was our guide. He told us cool facts about trains.They can be powered by diesel or steam. Ross

We went in the museum. There was a train that doesn't need a driver. Grace

When we got back, we used our English skills too write a recount of the trip. We also drew and painted pictures of trains. We used our trip to do our mind map of what we would like to learn. 7

Pips group have been reading instructions this week. Today they followed some instructions to make us all jam sandwiches! Thank you Pips group. 

In games, we've been developing our netball skills. We enjoyed watching the England Roses on the whiteboard and it helped us understand how to improve. We worked in threes to practise the different passes and pivoting.

Home Learning is to find or draw a  picture of our sporting hero and to write why they are our hero. This is for a display in the hall.  

This week's Star Award is for Ross as he was very active throughout our PE lesson and could explain why this was a healthy choice.. Well done, Ross. 

Thomas is our Learning Owl this week. He has had such a good attitude to our learning this week and tried really hard. He asked lots of questions for our mind map. Well done, Thomas. You should be very proud. Have a great weekend with Snowy. 

It's nearly time for the Fun Run, so on Friday 27th we can come to school in our sporty clothes.