News – Dulwich Wood Primary School

Autumn Term Learning Journey – Go Your Own Way

Find out about our learning:

Reception

This week we began exploring our new book, ‘Look Up! ‘by Nathan Bryon. The children were thrilled to discover a telescope and stars in our classroom, sparking lots of excitement, curiosity and questions about space and meteor showers. We also enjoyed a wonderful Diwali workshop led by one of our parents, where we learned about the Festival of Lights and how it is celebrated. Through these exciting experiences, we focused on our learning tools of asking questions, making links and empathy, encouraging children to explore new ideas, share their thoughts and appreciate different cultures and traditions.

Year 1

Y1 had a fantastic start to this term with a fun immersive experience on Monday when our middle room suddenly turned into a jungle teaming with dinosaurs. The children had to use their imagining tool to find clues and investigate what could have happened. We have been so impressed how they made links and figured out that dinosaurs had started to take over the Earth just like in our new story ‘Dinosoaurs and all that rubbish’. We cannot wait to find out more next week!

Year 2

Our first week back has been full of curiosity, thoughtful questions and exciting discoveries as we immersed ourselves in our new Literacy text, ‘The Water Protectors’. We explored the many ways we rely on water, using verbs to describe all the important things it allows us to do. Working collaboratively, we created a beautiful river teeming with sea creatures, seaweed and colourful coral. However, the following day, we discovered that our river had become dirty and polluted. This sparked some thoughtful discussions about the importance of keeping our waters clean and safe.

Year 3

Y3 had a mysterious start to the new Learning Journey, finding loads of rubbish trailed through their classrooms on Monday morning. We used our asking questions tool to find out what the rubbish might be all about. We then used our making links tool as we began our new Literacy text – ‘The Tin Forest’ – finding out about the old man who lives in a rubbish dump! We have also been persevering really hard to master the column method for addition and subtraction with exchanging!

Year 4

Y4 have kicked off our new learning journey in Literacy with a mysterious discovery. A series of metal clues around the school led us to a robot arm in the pagoda area, and we used our imagining and asking questions tools to consider what might have happened. We then wrote news reports about the discovery, using formal language and reporting the events like real journalists!

Year 5

Y5 have had an amazing start to the half term. On Monday, during our immersion day, we launched our journey into the Dulwich Wood Space Station and NASA Induction Programme! We used our asking questions and imagining tools to explore space and create our own planets. In Maths, we started our new topic of fractions. We have also been using our making links tool to connect our space theme across Reading, Literacy and Science!

Year 6

In Y6, we ventured out to our local biome, Sydenham Hill Woods, to explore the fascinating variety of flora and fauna on our doorstep. The children loved being out and about, using their asking questions tool to investigate the different species of mushrooms they could find and having a giggle at some of their rather unusual names!