Learning Journey: Sense of Community
Thank you to everyone who donated items at the Harvest Festival last Friday and for the generous donations to the NSPCC Kindness Challenge. We are so proud of how the children use their Empathy Goggles to share kindness.
Our Learning this week:
Reception: we have continued to explore the text ‘Where the Wild Things Are’. We have been practising sequencing and retelling the story, and then acting it out as a class. The kids have also enjoyed writing messages to one of the Wild Things to help him find some lost items, and using their imagining tool to draw huge pictures of the Wild Things to add them to the role play area.
Year 1: in science we have been exploring the human body. We identified and labelled different body parts and used our collaboration tool to investigate how and when we use our five senses. We then used our making links tool and realised that we use many senses throughout the day, such as; at lunch time we use our sense of smell, taste, touch and sight.
Year 2 have been using their making links tool in maths as we started our new learning on addition and subtraction. We are using our knowledge of place value to help us add and subtract numbers, and we are ready for the challenge!
Year 3 have been using their reasoning tool to decide whether a sloth would make a good pet or not – most of us thought it would be pretty boring!! We then read about a girl who did get a pet sloth and we are looking forward to finding out what tricks the sloth can do…
Year 4: we used our collaboration and reasoning tools to model our digestive systems. We used a variety of different equipment to make the mouth, oesophagus, stomach, intestines and rectum, digesting the food with the help of ‘saliva’ (water) and ‘stomach acid’ (orange juice).
Year 5 have been using their collaboration and reasoning tools in science to plan how to separate a mixture of pasta, iron objects, rice, sand and salt. We used different materials, including magnets to separate the iron objects and a sieve to separate the rice. Finally, we poured water into the salt and sand mixture to dissolve the salt. We were then able to separate it from the sand using a funnel and filter paper!
Year 6 finished reading Leila and the Blue Fox this week which lead to some rich and insightful discussions about the migration of people in the modern world and the problems they can face. To accompany this topic, they used their Imagining tool to create wonderful Arctic landscapes, which of course included Miso the Blue Fox.
Home Learning at Dulwich Wood
Please check Tapestry each week to find out about Home Learning opportunities:
- Fortnightly Home Learning Project
- Weekly Spelling list
- Monthly STEAM Question
Coming Up
Show Racism the Red Card – Friday 18th October
Please can all children wear red for school on that day to show their support for Show Racism the Red Card. Badges are on sale for £1 from the school office.
There’s so much happening that we had to create another poster!
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Volunteers Needed:
- 1 volunteer for the sweets stall & spooky cakes
- 11 volunteers for the hotdogs stall
- volunteers to dress the Lower school hall – set up
- 12 volunteers for the pizza stall (get pizza to hungry tums)
- 10 volunteers for the drinks stall (spooky punch)
- 10 face painters (tattoos and stencils)
Friends need help
Get in touch with us at friends@dulwichwood.com
A first aider for the Friend’s event
Are you a christmas tree🎄 enthusiast? We’re looking for someone to help coordinate and sell our festive firs with our supplier.
Is your inner Marie Kondo ready to shine? Our Friends cupboard could use your magical touch! Help us organise, declutter and spark some joy!
Dates for your diary
Fri 18th Oct
KS2 Celebration Assembly – All Welcome
Fri 18th Oct
Show Racism the Red Card Day (Wear Red)
Fri 25th Oct
KS1 Celebration Assembly – All Welcome
Fri 25th Oct
FODW Halloween Disco
Mon 28th Oct – Fri 1st Nov
Half Term Holiday
Mon 4th Nov
Children return to School
Thu 7th Nov
Y1 Parent Workshop
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