3/4SD have started their drawing unit of 'Everyday Objects'. In the lesson, pupils explored different pencil grades and labelled them in their sketchbooks. They noticed that B grade pencils gave a stronger line than H pencils. Afterwards, pupils practise blending to show lines and tones before attempting to draw a sphere and cube.
Year One have had a fantastic two experience days as part of their English lessons. We have been reading, “Last Stop On Market Street,” which involves the main character, CJ, getting on a bus to a destination.
The children had fun using the school minibus to role play a bus ride. They handed in their tickets to the conductor and found their seats. They fastened seat belts and talked about safety when travelling, and called out the various stops along the imaginary journey.
The children used bikes to follow routes and practiced stopping at traffic signals. They drew routes and maps cars to follow and used directional language to follow and give instructions.
The next experience day, the children took part in drama and hot seating activities to meet and get to know the various people travelling on a bus. The children thought of open questions to find out as much as possible about each character. We used some props and special objects to help us. These were handed to the characters, and they generated questions as to who this person was and why he/she was carrying such an object.
Well done Year One!
It has been a wonderful start to our new year in Reception. Our first full week saw the children establishing routines and settling in to school life. All of the children have enjoyed meeting their new friends and exploring our classroom and wonderful outside area! This week saw our Snack Cafe open it's doors and the children have enjoyed independently choosing and preparing their own snacks!
We have introduced our safety monitors who take responsibility to ensure our classroom and outdoor areas are safe and tidy, ready to learn. Wearing their hi-vis jackets they take pride in checking the learning environment.
The classroom has been full of singing, stories and getting to know each other.
We can not wait to see what the rest of the term brings for our youngest learners at Lapal.
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One of our pupils took part in the Global Dance Open. The competition took place in Spain between the 19th July - 23rd July.
4000 dancers enter the qualifiers & 1,500 dancers competed at the 2023 Finals from more than 35 countries.
She represented Great Britain in the Acro section and her team won bronze with routine “Send in the Clowns”
We are all so proud of her achievements.
Well done!
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On Friday 6W, took part in a skills builder team challenge. During this challenge, we had to listen to each other and show fantastic teamwork and creativity. Children used different part of their uniform and their selves to make the longest line they could. Everybody stayed positive aimed high to make the longest line. What a great way to end a fantastic week.
This morning, Year 3 and 4 started their English unit 'Float' with an experience lesson. Pupils needed to act like the central character of the book and construct their own paper boat. With the use of instructions and support from one another, all pupils were successful in creating their floating device. Throughout the lesson, they captured vocabulary which will help them in their sentence stacking lessons. Great job Year 3 and 4!
On Thursday 13th July, the Year 6 pupils visited West Midlands Police museum as part of their History topic (Crime and Punishment). After taking a double decker bus journey, which the children were really excited by, the children arrived at the museum. To their surprise, it was filled with crime investigation tasks, costumes and outfits to try and a range of artefacts to explore. To add to this, the children were also involved in a workshop. The workshop talked through the journey of crime and punishment from the early 1600's right the way through to current day. All of the children had a fantastic, fun filled and educated day.
This half term, year 6 have been experimenting with paper mâché to create a sculpture. Our focus for the sculptures was gargoyles. Whilst carrying out this art project, year 6 have learnt that gargoyles we used to decorate water fountains and used to deter spirts from buildings. Once the paper mâché was dry, the children used a technique called stippling to create texture.