News – Dulwich Wood Primary School

Parent Survey

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Our week at Dulwich Wood:

World Book Day!

What a fantastic World Book Day we had at school! The children (and adults) looked absolutely amazing in their costumes, and it has been so much fun playing our daily game of The Masked Reader. Thursday was particularly special as we welcomed some incredible visitors. A huge thank you to Katherine, our wonderful storyteller, who completely immersed our Reception to Year 2 children in her magical tale. We were also thrilled to host Banji Alexander, who shared some of his unpublished poetry with us and even had us all singing along to New King together. It was a truly memorable celebration of books, stories, and the joy of reading!

Learning Journey: Digital Explorers

Reception

We have continued enjoying ‘Super Milly and the Super School Day’. This week we have been thinking about our real, unique superpowers and using all of our perseverance to write about them. We also used our imagining tool to design our own superhero badges, and our empathy goggles to send messages to Milly, offering thoughtful advice on how she could help other children in her class. We finished off the week with an amazing World Book Day. What a super week in Reception!

Year 1

In science this week, we have been busy growing our scientific thinking skills. Using our making links and planning tools, we carefully planned our investigation and made thoughtful predictions based on what we already know. We then put our ideas to the test in a fun experiment to find out which objects sink and which float. We discovered some surprising results along the way!

Year 2

Y2 have been using their making links tool to investigate how shadows are formed. They also had a fantastic World Book Day – asking questions to our visiting author and using their empathy goggles to compliment each other on their costume efforts!

Year 3

Y3 have had a super creative week. We’ve been on a brilliant art walk in East Dulwich, using our asking questions and imagining tools to understand and interpret some wonderful street art. We then used what we’d seen to create our own wonderful artworks. World Book Day was also a highlight and we enjoyed doing lots of fun, book-based activities! We’ve loved watching the masked reader every day and using our detective skills to work out who it was.

Year 4

What an exciting week Y4 have had! The children began writing their own ‘Iron Man’ narratives, using their imagining tool to create some truly inventive and intimidating Iron Creatures. They also used their collaboration to work together to create a class version of the Bayeux Tapestry, carefully thinking about how to tell a story through images. Of course, we cannot forget to mention the fantastic World Book Day celebrations, where the children came to school in their marvellous costumes and even had the opportunity to chat with a famous author. It has been wonderful to see so much creativity, teamwork and enthusiasm for learning throughout the week!

Year 5

Y5 have been exploring the race to space through our literacy text ‘Hidden Figures’, using our empathy tool to write in the role of Katherine Johnson, a NASA computer engineer. The children used rich, emotive language to convey encouragement, resilience, and determination, inspired by Katherine’s courage. They then planned and gathered key information about Katherine and her colleagues Christine, Dorothy, and Mary, researching their contributions and achievements to deepen their understanding and incorporate these inspiring figures into their own writing.

Year 6

Y6 have continued reading ‘Paradise Sands’ in literacy and used their imagining tool brilliantly to create detailed, descriptive pieces focusing on creating atmosphere. We also had a fabulous World Book Day, where we quizzed each other about our reading habits and told scary stories using our oracy skills, some of which we acted out.