Giraffes@taddy

 As part of our Science unit, Earth & Space, Giraffes have been looking at why we experience day and night. The children planned and made models to demonstrate this concept. I was so impressed by the vision, teamwork and resilience shown by the children with these projects. 

 We have been learning about the Christian Creation story in RE. On Wednesday, we explored activity stations related to each of the 7 days in the story. Giraffes supported the Infants and the collaboration and conversations between our oldest and youngest children were wonderful.

 Our Taddington community were so generous in donating harvest produce. Any vegetables that weren't given in Harvest Hampers to members of our local community, were made into a Harvest soup this week by our Infants and Giraffes. We had a lovely afternoon on Wednesday, with our oldest children supporting our youngest to make a really delicious soup! We then came together as a whole school on Thursday to share the soup together.

 In maths, we use the power of 3:  we ask children to show us 3 different ways of solving the problem. Children can choose to use concrete resources such as place value equipment, pictorial such as bar models and abstract such as the column method.  We are working on addition, so here we are using place value equipment as one of our 3 ways to demonstrate our understanding.

In History, we learnt that Oracle bones are pieces of turtle shell, cow bone or sheep bone from the Shang Dynasty. Diviners carved these bones with questions about the future and the cracks that formed on the bones after they had been heated would give them an answer, called a “prophecy”.  We created our own Oracle bones using clay. We carved in an inscription of a question using Chinese writing. We had to concentrate as it was trickier than English writing. The finished Oracle bones