Another amazing week with Sarum after our holidays. The children have come back and have been engaged in all their learning as well as investigating lots of different things. 

They have been using spotting sheets to look at different insects and where they are in our garden space.

In maths the children were looking into different seeds and using the maths vocabulary such as: bigger, smaller, smooth, bumpy and noticing the different colours. 

The children have worked well together making sure they listen and help one another when working as a team, they did this creating play dough and then creating cakes, pizza and bread with the play dough. They also worked well together and as a team in forest school this week where they climbed trees and ran through the fresh bluebells and lush green areas. 

An amazing week of noticing in Sarum this week. We have been very busy. 

This week we have been on our spring walk where we looked around our school for signs of spring. The children did very well and found all the items on their clipboards. 

After our spring walk the children had lots of fun playing together in the park. 

We have also been busy looking after some tadpoles, we sorted out or pond area making sure it was all clean and tidy ready for the tadpoles to be released into for them to grow into frogs. 

Finally, we walked with our Year 6 buddies to the church for our Easter celebration service as a school the children were very well behaved, they joined in with the songs as well as listened respectfully to the Easter story being shared by the worship warriors.

Another amazing week of learning in Sarum this week. We have been busy learning about doubles and symmetry. 

We have also discussed a wide variety of books including one about maps. This inspired us to create maps of our own. The children discussed what we had in and around our class and how to best draw it for themselves.

We have drawn and then created beautiful symmetrical patterns on butterflies.

The children were able to follow a set if instructions to create their own butterfly which they then coloured in. We included butterflies into our maths this week talking about symmetry and how doubles work on butterflies.

Finally, the children created a beautiful daisy pot out of clay. The Year 6 buddies came to help and showed them the process and also discussed some key vocabulary about the pots with Sarum. Sarum learnt they needed to have a flat bottom and that the shape needed to be a sphere which has curved edges.

Another amazing week, well done Sarum!

Some fascinating learning in Sarum this week. The children have been busy with Funky fingers, describing the work they have created in water as well as ball skills and so much more. 

Funky fingers was an activity to continue to build dexterity in the children's hands and fingers to prepare them writing and mark making. They needed to squeeze the tennis ball to open the mouth to swallow the marbles. They had lots of fun. 

In the water this week they created an aquarium the children enjoyed telling us why it was called this and why aquariums are important. 

Ball skills are important as they build arm and wrist strength but also help with hand eye coordination to help with future skills with balance and much more. 

Making scenes with sticks, this was a fun and colourful activity where the children created their names and pictures from sticks. The children needed to make sure they laid them out how they wanted and also used steady hands to keep the sticks in place when adding more. 

Finally, the Year 6 buddies came to help the children to explore Kadinsky's art work. The children discussed with the Year 6 children what they noticed and the colours that they could see. The children then had fun recreating some of the colours and lines on a large piece of art paper.

A fantastic week for improving finger strength and dexterity with our funky finger work as well as drawing with different shapes and sizes of chalk. 

Sarum have had an activity for funky fingers to help with precision and dexterity this was to thread beads on to pipe cleaners they had lots of fun and enjoyed choosing different coloured beads as well. 

Some of our morning activities have been about writing silly sentences and also building some designs. Some children built people out of blocks or houses with different ideas in the garden. The silly sentences have also included 'A bee in a cot.' The children enjoy writing these sentences with different coloured pens. 

Finally the children have worked hard with their red words and wrote them all on whiteboards. They worked together and helped one another as well.

Another fantastic week in Sarum class this week. We have discussed friends, pancakes and how to make shapes with the help of our numbers. We have also celebrated World Book Day. 

This week we made more play dough in our play dough club as well as celebrated Shrove Tuesday (Pancake day) by mixing and creating some pancakes. 

Sarum used some Numicon shapes to help check our speedy subitising and then created shapes. The children worked well together and helped each other to work out the amounts of each shape. 

We had some amazing characters arrive in school for World Book day, the children enjoyed a shared read with their partners from Year 6 as well as sharing their characters with one another. 

Finally, to end the week we discussed what makes a good friend and how to include everyone. We did this with some of the Year 6 helpers to add more ideas the children enjoyed discussing different ideas. 

Sarum have had a lovely week back to school for the start of term 4. They have been busy learning about one more and one less in maths as well as recapping the staircase pattern. 

They have been amazing at writing some silly sentences on our writing using their imagination and some prepositions about a pig. 

This week we introduced the countryside code, we discussed how to look after our area in school and outside as well as how to protect our environment. Sarum then did some litter picking around school to show how they were able to look after the environment. 

Sarum then went on prepare our garden by turning over the dirt and to make sure we sorted out the weeds so we are ready to plant fruits and vegetables as well as bee friendly. 

Another fantastic week in Sarum. With lots of learning, recapping and collaboration with others. This week Sarum have been using their maths terminology to build towers with blocks of 6 and 7. The children also checked their amounts using a ten frame. 

Sarum can also now use a two's pattern as well as the finished five and a bit. 

They were able to apply their noticing skills with real life objects one example of this was looking at eggs in an egg box. 

Savernake have been busy writing stories and they visited Sarum to share their work with the class. 

For Read Write Inc sounds and phonics the children have focused on their sounds, reading and writing. 

Red group - special friends

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A/B/C Group - blending games
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Some word time games -
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Sarum have had another busy week in school. They have been learning all about number facts to five. They used a song to help them notice what makes a 5. We also used a splat game to cover counters. 

The children had lots of fun using the Chatterkid app. They wrote sentences about the animals and then recorded funny sentences in the app. 

Outside the children have been building their core strength to help with their writing and balance Some children have also been working on building their co-ordination with kicking balls to one another as well. 

In forest school this week Sarum created some fat balls to feed the birds and a small pot. 

Sarum have had another busy week of learning. They have been focusing on number facts up to 5. Sarum have used these number facts to show how you can make 5. 

They have been busy becoming explorers just like Shakleton. They have also created some writing with a suitcase template. Once they completed their suitcase writing they drew a map for their own island. Sarum thought about all the places they could include on the maps they created whether they are real or imagined. 

Sarum have learnt about the Lunar new year this week and created some cards as well. 

Lastly, the children investigated cool colours. They looked at different blues, using pen, crayons and pastels. Sarum then progressed to mixing paint. 

Sarum have been really busy with their learning this week. They have focused lots of maths terminology one more, taller and smaller. They completed this learning by creating a staircase design to show one more for each step. 

We innovated our talk for writing story 'Lost and found' and changed some of the characters and the destination we had lots of ideas, A unicorn, dinosaur, Peppa pig, fox and a wolf. 

Sarum discussed different emotions and how they make us feel. They worked with Y6 to create posters.

Another busy week in Sarum class this week. We have been busy with our maths checking with our ten frames as well as practicing the numerals up to 6. 

The children have enjoyed learning our Talk for Writing model text 'Lost and Found'. Sarum then created their own story on our 'Tell me a story board'. 

Outside the children have been busy building their muscles to help with their mark making and writing skills.

Inside the children have been making play dough, this needs lots of strength to stir to make it the correct consistency to play. The children then made different cakes and savory snacks with the play dough. 

A great week after the Christmas holidays for Sarum class. We have been busy with a science experiment learning about how water freezes and whether the amount of water effects how it freezes.
Sarum then recapped subitising using some snow flake cards as well. Two children then created a game with the cards to practice their subitising. The children were introduced to a part whole method. They have discussed this in detail and have all done really well. 
Forest school this week we have focused on bird watching and how we can look at the different birds that come to school. We created our own den to hide in to be able to see the birds that visit our school. 
 

Sarum have had another fun filled busy week. They worked really hard with the Nativity as they completed the final performance to parents this week along with Silbury and Savernake. Sarum had lots of fun.
 They have practiced math vocabulary for shapes learning about a curved face and a flat face. They have used this maths language when describing shapes including corners and edges. Sarum have also recapped ‘more than’, ‘less than’, and ‘equal’, we used blueberries to demonstrate this. 
We have also been busy with our mark making this week. The children have drawn some trees, stockings and leaves.
 

This week in Sarum we have had a lovely week filled with learning and excitement. We have been busy learning the songs and our parts for the nativity play as well as recapping some of our maths. Sarum recapped longest, shortest and longer and smaller maths terminology and have been able to recognise equal confidently this week. 

They have had a fantastic time in Dauntsey Forest School. They created some amazing pictures on the floor, they then explored the play area climbing trees and going through huge tree trunks. What a week Sarum!! Well done.

This week in Sarum we have had a visitor come and teach us about the religion Judaism. We learnt about Shabbat and how they read the holy texts from a Torah which is a scroll instead of a book. We now know that the stories are very similar to the bible but the 'Toarh' is written in an ancient language called Hebrew. Sarum also investigated seeds inside squash this week and learnt that they are all similar but the seeds vary in size depending on how big the squash is. They have been busy recapping maths terminology for subitising to 4 as well as 'more', 'fewer' and 'equal' 

Another fun filled week in Sarum, the children have been busy reinforcing and learning new vocabulary. We focused on subitising to 5 this week and using the maths terminology of more or fewer when using fast eyes and when counting as well. The children learnt a rhyme as well to help them. The children used their observation skills to draw details of a leaf in the mornings showing the veins in the leaf as well as the details of the outside of the leaf. Sarum have also had fun innovating the 'Talk for writing' story 'The little red hen' they changed some of the characters as well as the end product the hen was making to a cake instead of bread. They had lots of fun doing this discussing what we should change the characters too. Finally, we used our art skills to stencil with paints and sponges making sure to hold the stencil down firmly and not move while we used a sponge to add paint.

Another busy week in Sarum, the children have building strength in their fingers with our activity with the squash in 'Funky Fingers' they needed to hammer the sticks in and then pull them out. The children have learnt more maths terminology when practising subitsing looking at more or fewer than 4. We have been learning our new story in class which is 'The Little Red Hen'. The children have been practicing their arm, finger and core strength in all areas this week including using paintbrushes to clean the tractor and creating images with chalk as well as climbing in gymnastics for P.E. Finally, we celebrated Pudsey on Friday by creating a mask with our very own bandana design.

This week in Sarum we have been busy learning lots of different skills and language in maths: from biggest to smallest, heavier and lighter as well as the size of the girth with the different types of squash. We have also been discussing different festivals from around the world. We learnt about how and when different festivals are celebrated and why lights are used. We learnt about bonfire night and created our own fireworks on black paper. We discussed and read about Diwali and then started to create our own Diya's. We have had a fun filled week learning as well as exercising to help build our strength for writing. 

This week in Sarum class we have had a visitor to discuss how we need to look after our teeth. We learnt about the different types of food that are good and bad for our teeth. 
Sarum class have also been busy learning more letters and have practised at home and in class. We have been decorating pumpkins previously and the children wanted to see how many of them could fit on the pumpkin.