Class 8 --- Perfect Penguins

Welcome to Class 8 - Perfect Penguins!

Our teacher is Miss Asquith and our teaching assistant is Mrs Palmer.

Mrs Robey and Miss Lenton also work in our class.

Autumn Term 2023

Our topic this term is Food, glorious food!.

Our big question is Can one person make a difference? and our key

concepts are Ambition, Determination and Choice.

Knowledge Organisers - Autumn Term

We use knowledge organisers to support the children's learning in school, to help them remember key information for each subject and to encourage them to be more independent within lessons. Use the knowledge organisers below for more detailed information about what we are learning and ask your child what they can remember about each subject.

Art

In our Art lessons this term we have learned about colours, tints, tones and shades. We practised mixing primary colours to make secondary colours and adding black or white to a colour to make it lighter or darker.

Maths

In Maths we have been learning about Place Value. We learned about the tens and ones in 2 digit numbers and used practical resources to represent the numbers in different ways.

We then used our knowledge of place value to compare numbers using mathematical vocabulary - less than, greater than and equal to.

P.E

In gymnastics we have been learning about different types of jumps. We have practised straight, tuck and straddle jumps on the apparatus and we have been trying to perfect our landing.

In our games lessons, SH Active have been teaching us to play handball. We have practised the different skills needed for the game such as throwing and catching and have been working on improving our aim and power.

Science

Our Science topic this term has been 'Materials'. We have learned all about different objects, the materials they are made from and why each material is suitable for that purpose. We also thought about the properties of different materials and spent time investigating which materials can bend, squash, stretch and twist.

Reading Time

We invited our adults into school to read with us at the start of the school day. We loved sharing our favourite books and can't wait to do it again!

Wellbeing Time

Every Friday afternoon we have 'Wellbeing Time'. In September we made a list of all the things we would like to do for our wellbeing and we have been enjoying a different activity each week. We have created autumn leaves for the classroom window, been on a treasure hunt outside and made scratch art bookmarks. Here we are relaxing with a film and popcorn afternoon!