Welcome to Anston Greenlands Primary School

Wrens are loving Forest School!

They started off playing some team games to warm up, and then they went and explored the grounds to find interesting items to put on their ‘Journey Sticks’.

The children then had to try and explain where they had found some of their items. They were very good at using positional language, which they had recently worked on in maths lessons.

They then finished off with reflection time. The children love using our reflection stick, and it is always GREAT to hear how much they are liking the activities.

Wrens don’t let the rain stop them having fun! We popped on our wellies, and grabbed our umbrellas to venture outside to get some fresh air.

We had a great time splashing in puddles and listening to the rain on top of our umbrellas.

We were very good at sharing our umbrellas too.

We have been learning about light and dark. We identified light sources around us, and this was helped by our Victorian visitors who talked about how people in the past had to use candle light at night time.

We then had to investigate which materials would be the best for our up coming Christmas show. We wanted curtains which wouldn’t  let any light through. We tested different materials using a torch.

We learnt about animals which also come out at night, and that these are called nocturnal.

We also used our creative skills to create some night time woodland scenes.

Some of us used our language skills and made a story up whilst playing with these.

We also used revelation art on the computers to create firework displays, which some of us had seen whilst celebrating bonfire night with our families and friends.

For our ‘WOW day’ the children came dressed as a character from a pantomime or a book to launch our new topic ‘It’s Show Time!”

We had witches, dragons, princesses, pirates and gingerbread men to name a few.

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We then drew our characters.

We then watched a Jack and the Beanstalk shadow puppet show, as we are going to be watching this at the pantomime in December. We also learnt how to create our own shadow puppets and use these to tell stories. We have had a GREAT day!

This half term we have been using our artistic skills to create our art gallery.

You are welcome to take a look at our art gallery. This has been our end of term focus for this half term.