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Sharing our Stories: 21/04/2023
Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across our Trust this week!
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Ready for our journey in class 5
Class 5 came to school ready to make a journey! We had explorers, air hostesses and lots of excited holiday makers. We can’t wait to discover our guiding question later today.
Mrs Parsons xx
Mapping it out
We have created some beautiful work this week. We have been looking at a book titled ‘Martha Maps it Out’. We made links between the map of her local area and what we might find in ours. We took the children on a walk around Norton to see if we were right.
We enjoyed our walk and the children behaved beautifully!
Back in school we have mapped out our journey and have created some beautiful work. Here are some of our amazing maps…
Travelling on foot around Norton village…
This week we have been hooking into our next expedition titled ‘Would you travel by wheels, wings or other things?’. Yesterday the children explored the book Martha Maps It Out by Leigh Hodgkinson. In the story Martha creates maps of lots of different places including her local village. The children worked collaboratively to notice and discuss all the features of Martha’s map. We then used this as a stimulus to predict what we might notice when travelling on foot around our local area. Were they the same or different to Martha? The only way to find out was to go on a walk…
We walked a circular route around Norton village passing The Royal Hotel, Baps and Wraps, the park, windmill and Junior School playing fields. The children spotted and discussed so many other features of their local area including sign posts, bus stops, passing vehicles, wildlife, pets and people of different occupations. Some children enjoyed pointing out their own homes too!
When we were back in school we looked again at the predictions we recorded about what we might see on our walk. The children’s ideas were fantastic suggestions and we ticked off most of our things on our lists! Well done Class 2 ☺️
Making our own transport.
Nursery have been experimenting this week with building our own vehicles from large deconstructed materials. We have been teamwork tigers, helping to source, fetch and carry the different parts. The children have been building upon each others ideas, particularly after the inspiring visit from the vintage bus and seeing what our reception classes have created throughout the week also.
Vintage Vibes!
This week Nursery have been lucky enough to have had a visit from a vintage, red, London bus to kick off our new expedition on “Would you travel by wheels, wings or other things?” The children were very excited to climb aboard the double decker and were interested in examining key features of the bus acquiring lots of new language such as…
The driver kindly played along with an imaginary trip to the seaside, pulling the bus forward and backwards in the car park to allow the children to experience the sound and buzz of the engine. He also sounded his horn and let the children experiment with the bell. Nursery sat on both the lower and the top deck of the bus and looked out of the windows to see what they could see.
Reading at The Laurels
A few children from Year Two spent the afternoon reading, colouring and even had a little sing song with some of the residents from The Laurels. It was lovely to see how much everyone involved enjoyed their time together – we are already counting down to our next visit!
Mrs Parsons xx
A London Bus came to Norton…
Today the children in EYFS had the opportunity to explore a vintage London bus. Class 2 loved climbing up to the top deck and role playing being the bus conductor on board. What another great day in hook week, we’re loving our new expedition already!
