We have had a fun filled week in Wrekin!

We’ve attempted our own landscape drawings based on the work of the artist Stephen Wiltshire. We draw local buildings from memory, studying them for 10 seconds and then drawing what we could remember. 

In Science we have been thinking about the uses of different materials and why. We talked about making umbrellas from glass and metal and decided it wasn’t a good idea because of the properties of those materials.

We’ve also visited our library and spent time choosing and reading books together. The children really enjoyed this experenice and we talked about which books we enjoyed and why.

Wrekin have had a brilliant first few weeks back after Christmas.

The children have come back to school ready to learn and we have had some fantastic experiences.

This half term in RE we are learning about the religion of Islam. We have learnt about where Islam started, the name of the Islamic god and what people who follow Islam are called. We have also written some Islamic words.

In Science we have been learning about Materials and have studied the properties of everyday materials. We had alot of fun feeling and testing different materials.

In Art we have been using different materials to draw spirals. We learnt that you always start from the middle when drawing spirals and really enjoyed trying all the different materials and colours.

We have been writing about dragons in English and found a dragon egg in class! It was very exciting and everyone was able to hold the egg carefully and predict what was inside.

It’s been another fabulous week in Wrekin class and the children have worked incredibly hard every day!

In English we have been designing and creating our own town, including labels, captions and lists. The children really enjoyed making their own buildings for the town and our finished town is something they are very proud of!

In Science we identified different habitats that animals could live in and matched animals to those habitats. There was some great discussion and the children were fantastic in working together to sort the animals correctly.

In Maths we have been continuing with Addition and Subtraction and have been learning about fact families.

Finally, in Art we have drawn factories, buildings and houses to put in front of our watercolour background from last week. Next week we will attach these and draw our people to complete our art pieces.