Diamond

Diamond Class

The teacher in Diamond class is Mrs Rounce.  In the morning Mrs Smith teaches Year 2 and 3 in Sapphire Class. Mrs Glover and Miss Wollington support teaching and learning in Diamond class.

Diamond

Home learning tasks can be found on Google classroom

Recent Activities

Forest Schools 13-10-22

This week our forest school’s session started with the tennis ball game. This game extended our listening skills as many balls were being thrown at the same time. We learned how rafts were tied together using ‘floor lashing’ to make it secure. Using a fire flint and striker, we each had a turn to catch a small piece of cotton wool alight – it was much harder than it looked! We ended the lesson with cooking our own marshmallows over the fire. What a lovely way to end this term’s forest school’s session.

Tacon’s Farm Visit

The whole school visited Tacon’s Farm to learn how potatoes, onions and pumpkins are grown. Each pupil picked their own potato and onion and Year 6s were lucky and got to pick a pumpkin each. We will be using the produce to make pumpkin soup and potatoes cons for our Harvest Festival celebrations so keep checking the website to see what we make!

A big thank you to Emma and Tacon’s Farm for teaching us about farming and for donating all we picked!

Thank You Letters

We wanted to thank Emma for teaching us about farming so we learned how to write thank you letters and then wrote our own. We tried to include all the features of a letter and then decorated them with images of the farm. We hope Emma likes them.

Forest Schools 6-10-22                 

We started this week with creative art. Using a combination of salt dough and anything we found lying around outside, we made some interesting creations. Our session then split into different activities. We placed a piece of string around our feet and investigated what was going on in the ground beneath. We found lots of exciting bugs by sweeping them gently into plastic cups then we let them go again into their natural environment. The other activity combined our teamwork and construction skills to build a den using branches and leaves. We created some great dens.

Sharing Our Empathy Stories

Year 4, 5 and 6 read their own empathy stories to the Year 2 and 3s. Every story had a message about having empathy for others and Year 2 and 3 enjoyed learning from their peers the importance of understanding others.

Sapphire Class – 3D Shapes

In Sapphire Class, we have been learning about 3D shapes. We built a range of 3D shapes using Polydron, including hexahedrons, dodecahedrons and octahedrons! We talked about how many faces, vertices and edges the shapes have.

Sapphire Class – Fiction and Non-Fiction

This week, we have been learning about the features of fiction and non-fiction books. As reading detectives, we looked for clues to help us sort the books into groups. Some of the books were really tricky to work out like the book about fossils that looked like a story book! We came up with a table of clues to help us work out if a book was fiction or non-fiction.

Forest Schools – History Focus

This week in forest schools we had a fire. We discussed how we keep safe near an open fire and added these to our forest school rules. We looked at how fires are lit today and how Stone Age man would have lit their fires, and what they were used for. We also made charcoal by burning oak sticks in a tin to reduce the amount of oxygen.

At the end of the session, we had the choice of making ‘wood cookie’ name labels to wear in our forest school lessons or playing ‘meet a tree’, where we were led blind folded to a tree, felt all around it then saw if we could recognise it when our blind folds were removed. 

Forest Schools – Science Focus

Today saw the start of our forest school’s session. We revisited our safety rules and played the tennis ball game to enhance our listening skills. This week we learned how bees collect honey. Running to collect water with a pipette, we emulated how bees fly back and forth to gather nectar. At the end of the session, we had a choice of looking for wasp galls or creating a ‘nature crown’ with string and items we gathered. 

Share a Story Session

The class enjoyed their ‘share a story’ session so much that they have decided to hold a weekly share a story session. This week they shared their dinosaur stories. Keep checking the website to see what they share next.

Fleggburgh Primary School
Main Road, Fleggburgh, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk NR29 3AG

Executive Headteacher - Mrs Hayley Sonnex
Head of School - Mrs Ingrid Rounce
SENCo - Mrs C Laband

Contact Lisa Phillimore or Tina Cogdell in the school office
Telephone: 01493 369283
Email: office@fleggburgh.norfolk.sch.uk

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