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  • National Numeracy Day 2023

    Published 25/05/23, by Adam Gilbert

    Last week, Aragon took part in National Numeracy Day 2023. All the children participated in a range of activities depending on their year group. Some of the activities outlined below are what all the children completed as a whole school approach.

    Estimation

    Across the school, children had to estimate how many pieces of maths equipment was in the jar. Estimation can be difficult and we had a range of different answers. Fatih (right) estimated 673 and Shafia (left) estimated 670. In total, there were 672 pieces of equipment. What an estimate!

    Estimate the Weight

    Children were given the task to make a figure using cubes. At the start of the session, the children were given a weight that they needed to successfully make. The difficulty was the children were not allowed to weigh their figure until the end. To help assist the children, we provided them with 100g weights. Successfully, Betty-Lew (3A) managed to reach the target of 122g. How impressive!

    Shut the Box

    The children thoroughly enjoyed the challenging game ‘Shut the Box’. This game involves children having to subitise (recognise numbers without counting) and find the totals to remove all the wooden blocks.

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  • Year 1 & Reception - Wonderdome

    Published 08/05/23, by Adam Gilbert

    Year 1 and Reception took part in a fascinating, fun and interactive Primary School Planetarium Show which took them on a journey through space, earlier this week.

    They learnt amazing facts about our solar system and beyond, including taking a flying visit to and learning information about our incredible neighbouring planets. Is it possible to live on them? And what makes Planet Earth so special that life thrives here?

    An absolutely fantastic experience for all!

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  • Cluckingham Palace

    Published 08/05/23, by Adam Gilbert

    Welcome to Cluckingham Palace!

    Well done to everyone who has joined us in creating chickens for King Charles Palace.

    We learnt of King Charles’ love for chickens and got creative.

    This is Aragon’s Cluckingham Palace, pride of place in the front office.

    We have a host of mediums used to create over 110 amazing chicken and hens! Ranging from artists aged 3 to 11! A whole school art piece compiled of art work from pupils in nursery to year 6!

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  • Year 1 Spotlight - Spring

    Published 20/04/23, by Adam Gilbert

    Wow what a half term it has been for Year One!

    In English, we read about all the amazing buildings that Iggy Peck built which led nicely into looking at famous London Landmarks. At the end of the topic, the children deigned and wrote their own leaflets giving lots of interesting information about them.

    To complete our Science topic of materials. We went on a material hunt around the school, identifying what materials different objects are made of and why.

    Year 1 have really enjoyed learning about past and present transport. As part of enriching our learning, we even went on a bus and underground trip. We loved looking at the tracks and all the different underground lines.

    In Design Technology (DT), we have been looking at the design of playground equipment and have even made models of slides.

    Last week, we were very excited to invite parents into school to share a book with us. We were very excited to see so many grown ups and loved showing them our classrooms and of course reading a book!

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  • Humanities Week 2023

    Published 23/03/23, by Adam Gilbert

    Last week was our first Humanities Week!

    Each year group were given a continent to ‘explore’, taking part in many different activities and lessons to immerse themselves in that continent.

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  • Year 2 - Great Fire of London Workshop

    Published 23/03/23, by Adam Gilbert

    Year 2 have been studying The Great Fire of London in English and History. To end this fantastic unit, every child participated in a workshop where they travelled back in time to 1666 and explored the events surrounding the Great Fire of London. The children discovered what caused the fire, why it spread so quickly and how it impacted Londoners’ lives before reimagining the construction of a new, safer London.

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  • World Book Day 2023

    Published 23/03/23, by Adam Gilbert

    Thursday 2nd March saw the celebration of World Book Day. The children were so engaged in all the activities and there was a real ‘book-buzz’ around the school. We welcomed author Sylvia Bishop into school. She has written many books including, ‘The Secret of the Night Train’ and ‘The Midnight Thief’. With Early Years and Key Stage 1, she helped the children to develop their own stories, thinking about an animal to start them off. For Key Stage 2 she talked about the importance of finding a story in everything, and what to do if you have writers block. She gave the children tips and tricks by using games and exercises. We have also been lucky enough to buy some new dictionaries and thesauri’ and used these to write our own stories. We opened the pages randomly, and had to pinpoint a word and try and include that in the story – some of the stories took such an interesting turn based on what came out! Sharing books and stories with other year groups also took place throughout the day. Year groups were paired up and got to move around the school.

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  • Year 1 - Travel and Transport

    Published 22/03/23, by Adam Gilbert

    Year one were very excited to travel on a bus and a tube, enriching their current History topic of transport. They loved looking at the underground map and finding all the London landmarks that they have learnt about in English; it was great fun!

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  • Year 2 - Ducklings

    Published 22/03/23, by Adam Gilbert

    Year 2 had the incredible opportunity to witness duckling eggs hatch. The children will be observing the ducklings over time and learning about the lifecycle of a duck to relate to their current Science topic, Animals Including Humans. 

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  • Year 2 - Wisley Gardens

    Published 22/03/23, by Adam Gilbert

    On Friday 10th February, the year 2 children ended their half term with an exciting trip to RHS Wisley Gardens.  This trip has been organised to develop our knowledge linked to our science topic on 'Plants'.  When we arrived at the gardens we were escorted by the Learning Team at Wisley to the education centre.  After a brief introduction, we started our workshop titled 'How do plants grow?'  First, we were shown a variety of seeds and plants from across the globe.  Some of the seed pods were enormous and had come all the way from both Africa and South America.  We were then taken to explore parts of the gardens, where our guide explained to us about some of the tallest trees that grow at Wisley and how large their trunks will be when fully grown.  It was fasinating, and we were even able to apply some of our maths knowledge, thinking about if we were to measure the trees length would we do this in meters or centimeters. 

    After a good explore around the stunning gardens we went back to the education center and planted some seeds that we were able to take home with us.  By that point we were all ravenous, so we had a break for lunch before a fun packed afternoon exploring the famous glass house which homes exotic plants that you'd usually only see in deserts or rainforests.  At this point, we channeled our inner 'Henri Rousseau' the artist we have been learning about and sketched some plants like he used to in the Botanical Gardens in Paris.  To end the day, we spent a little bit of time in the natural play area.  Finally, after a long and exhausting day we were returned to school full of beans about what we had seen.  Miss Kitchener told us that we had all walked around 18,000 steps!  The children were incredibly well behaved and a credit to our fantastic school!   

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