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Dunkirk Primary School

Olive Class Showcase

We love celebrating the amazing work that Olive class do! Take a look at the pages below and join us in celebrating how awesome they are! 

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  • RE learning

    Published 23/03/23, by Rachael Jurkiw

    During our recent work on Myself and Caring for others from the Nottingham RE Syllabus, pupils have been building on their sense of individuality learnt in reception. They have been thinking about how they can care for others within the community by taking inspiration from religious stories. Pupils have been understanding; the significance of Shrove Tuesday and learning about how Jesus helped and cared for the sick; Mother's Day and how this relates to Lent; fasting during Lent and Ramadan and why people fast; the significance of Ramadan and how Muslims show care to their wider community; and the significance of Easter and why Christians celebrate Easter. 

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  • Making Time Machines!

    Published 15/03/23, by Nichola Bowen

    Making a Time Machine takes time itself! Time to think about what it will look like. Time to draw that plan and label the important features. Then time to investigate the best shape to use for a possible dial. Learning about 2D and 3D and how to create a 3D machine from 2D net. Wow, this was a complex process with oodles of learning taking place, involving DT, art and problem-solving skills. 

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  • How can we keep Teddy dry?

    Published 15/03/23, by Nichola Bowen

    Science is great fun in Year 1! This lesson was all about the exploration of different materials to investigate their waterproof qualities and absorbency. What would happen if Teddy found himself out in a shower? What material could we use to make him a coat, that would keep him dry? We made our predictions and then got to work, testing and investigating and then recorded our results. 

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  • Making our own Stone-age paint!

    Published 31/01/23, by Nichola Bowen

      This term we are learning about history and time and part of our focus is on the Stone-age period and how the Stone-age people may have lived their lives. 

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  • Autumn Artists!

    Published 31/01/23, by Nichola Bowen

     Art and creative work produced throughout the Autumn term. Some of the inspiration came from looking   at the work produced by artist Andy Goldsworthy. 

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  • Tennis stars!

    Published 25/01/23, by Nichola Bowen

    In September a visiting coach from the Nottingham Tennis centre came to teach us some specific tennis skills. Just look at the size of the tennis rachet he brought with him! It was such great fun and it got our hearts pumping, all at the same time.

                                                                                                   

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  • Walking around Lenton

    Published 25/01/23, by Nichola Bowen

    Olive Class went for an exciting walk around Lenton.

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  • Green Fingers!

    Published 28/05/21, by Catherine Hopper

    In Olive Class the children have been busy getting their fingers dirty and planting a variety of things for our Year 1 allotment. They have grown sunflowers from seed to see the change from beginning to end and have planted some seedlings, including runner beans, tomatoes, strawberries and a variety of herbs. We've been learning all about the different features of a plant and talking about what they need to help them grow and how we can care for them. We are looking forward to seeing our plants grow!

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  • Christmas Week

    Published 14/12/20, by Kate Butler

    We have done lots of fun things to get ready for our Christmas performance.

    We made stars and animals to hang in and around the stable.

     

     

    We made Christmas tree and star hats to wear during our singing performance and we were really lucky as Mr Mark made us a stable and a manger. Thank you Mr Mark! 

     

    We really liked learning the Christmas Story and making peg dolls to help us retell the story. We put these in our Christmas performance alongside small clips of each of us retelling the Christmas Story. 

     

     

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  • Instructions

    Published 14/12/20, by Kate Butler

    This half term we have also looked at instructions.

    We had a visit from our old friend 'Moon Rabbit' who told us that he was bored of eating carrot cake. He wanted the children to tell him how to make toast as he could often smell it during Breakfast Club. 

    We started off by ordering a set of instructions to make sure that we were making the toast in the correct order. We talked about why it is important to make sure that instructions are in the correct order. 

     

     

    We enjoyed retelling the instructions over and over again using the pictures to help us.

    We worked on our own, in partners and in small groups to tell each other the instructions. 

    Here is the map we used to help us! Once we were confident we start to make changes to our map to make it our own!

    For own independent write, we wrote out a set of instructions on how to make rice crispy cakes. We really liked thinking about what topping we would put on the top! Hmmm marshmellows, chocolate chips or some fruit ...

    Some children even went home and made their own rice crispy cakes. They looked delicious :) 

     

      

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  • Animal Factfiles

    Published 14/12/20, by Kate Butler

    This half term we have been exploring animal fact files. 

    We started off by learning our new map and and thinking of fun actions to go alongside.  We then drew our own maps using the same pictures to help us remember all of the facts about rabbits.

    Can you remember all the facts? Use the map to help you!

    We then spent time changing parts of the map to make it our own. Where there is a blank box we put our own ideas in and then wrote sentences to match!

    We had some lovely ideas and the children loved describing what rabbits look like!

    For our final independent piece of writing we wrote an animal fact file about an animal of our choice. We used the same headings to help us set out our ideas. 

    We had some wonderful fact files ranging from ants to crocodiles and the children enjoyed finding out information all about their animal!

     

     

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  • Journeys

    Published 14/10/20, by Kate Butler

    We have set up our classroom environment with links to our theme of journeys. 

    We have lots of books in our classroom about journeys. We also have pictures from our Moon Rabbit story that we like to use to help us sequence the story. 

     

    We have transport in our small world and water areas! 

     We really enjoy drawing our own maps when exploring the environment. Here is Moon Rabbit's journey :) 

    Please see above a couple of our wonderful maps which show journeys from home to school.

     

     

    We have also drawn maps of Dunkirk Primary School. I wonder if you can recognise any parts of our school?

     

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