Blog Category: Sycamore

Sycamore have been learning all about adults who we can trust. The children used a combination of their own family photos,  strangers that we know are safe e.g doctors and police and strangers that are not safe to categorise in the circle of trust . 
Mrs Banks worked with this group and started…

In sycamore today with Mrs Crouch the children learned all about baptism . As a class we talked about what a baptism is and what it means . Mrs Crouch showed the children how to baptise a baby , then all of the children had a go at being the Vicor to baptise the baby. 
The children used ‘holy…

Today in Sycamore class we have worked very hard with our swimming lesson. 

5 of our pupils today have secured their puffin swim award for swimming 5m with a swim aid independently. 

What a great achievement! 
 

All of your hard work and consistency each week is paying off. You should…

Sycamore class used iPads to create some imaginative selfies for digital art. 
 

Each child used an iPad and travelled around school to find exciting places to take a selfie. Some children chose to share a selfie with a friend or a teacher, whilst some choose to take a silly selfie alone . 
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The chicks are ready to go into their brooding . 

We moved the incubator into the brooding and lifted the lid off slowly . 

Some of the chicks were quite confident and happily jumped into their brooding and began exploring . 

Some of the chicks felt a little nervous and needed some…

As the chicks began to hatch, it was time to set up their home. This is called brooding. 
All the children took turns to help build the brooding pen for the chicks. 

What good team work sycamore class! 

In the brooding pen, the chicks have a heater to keep them warm, lots of hay, water for…

Wow! We have life! Some of the eggs have started to hatch. Our first chick is a beautiful yellow colour - we have named the first chick Becca. Followed by chick number 2 which is brown, then chick number 3 very closely after is a lovely grey. Chick number 4 took its time to make an appearance but…

On Tuesday this week in Sycamore class we had some very exciting arrivals. 
 

Miss Molloy and the children in Sycamore class have been doing lots of research about how to care for animals and what animals need. This week we are going to put our learning to the test. 

Real chickens to care…

Welcome back ! 
Hit the ground running this week with some amazing digital art work . The children looked at digital images and used their words to talk about what they could see. The children then recreated the art work by using colours on the same image and adding in a printed photograph of…

Sycamore class had a lovely visit to the zoo this week. 
 The children had such a great time . Learning all about the animals , where they live , what they eat and how they travel around - is it 4 legs , 2 legs or no legs ? 

The children did super listening all day and asked lots of questions…

What a fun afternoon we had today in Sycamore class. After playtime we went on the bikes. We put our helmets on and had a big ride on the bikes in the cage.

We then needed to follow positional instructions as Mr Flavell held up STOP, GO and REVERSE signs. Whilst we was riding our bikes we…

Today in Sycamore class we have been busy getting ready for Mothers Day!

We thought about words to describe our Mums. We said our Mums are funny, helpful and amazing and even more adjectives! 

We drew pictures of our Mums, we also discussed what our Mums look like. We thought about what…