Here you will find out about all of the exciting things we take part in at Lydiate - both in and out of school hours.

• Music and Maths in Maple

  Thu 06 Feb 2020 P Foulkes

  Maple class had a brilliant Music lesson this week with Mrs Bond when every child got to play a musical instrument of their choice whilst singing the song 'I wanna play in a band.'

  In Maths this week, all the children enjoyed using the Base 10 equipment to investigate division and today they became 'Number Investigators' exploring odd and even numbers.  They hadn't realised that odd and even numbers were so interesting!

  

• Sycamore

  Thu 06 Feb 2020 Mrs Faragher
  We took part in Inside Our Day today and discussed about mental health, feelings and what we can do to help one another. We are starting a new morning activity to ensure there is always have someone to share our feelings with. Ask us about it! 

  

• Rowan Class making their own 3D Shapes!

  Thu 06 Feb 2020
  Rowan class have been learning all about shapes. So we decided to have a go at making some 3D ourselves using straws and blue tac. Here are some of the fantastic creations!

  

• Holly Nursery love dancing with our flipper flappers! It's a great way to develop our muscles in our shoulders, arms and wrists to get us ready for writing.

  Thu 06 Feb 2020
  

• Acorn go on a shape hunt

  Wed 05 Feb 2020
  Today Acorn class went into the outdoor environment to hunt for familiar shapes. We looked all around the garden area for circles, squares, rectangles and triangles. The children found many different shapes all around garden. I wonder what shapes you can see in the environment....

  

• What is your favourite page turner?

  Wed 05 Feb 2020
  In English, Poplar have been thinking about what makes a book so engaging and intriguing that you just can't put it down. Once we had decided, we thought about our own favourite books and what made them a page turner. Our task was to convince our partners that they should read our favourite because they are just so good!

  

• Birch Created Stuck Books

  Wed 05 Feb 2020
  In Birch, we have been looking at properties and materials. In this lesson, we explored which materials created the most friction. We just could not separate some of these books. Try it yourself!

  

• Oak Desert Survival Guide

  Wed 05 Feb 2020
  Linked to our class novel, Holes, check out this fantastic 'desert survival guide!'

  

• Graffiti Maths - Elm

  Tue 04 Feb 2020

  Elm class threw the rule book out of the window this afternoon and turned our tables into massive whiteboards to practice our knowledge of multiples of 8. After checking the coast was clear from Mrs Forshaw, we started writing as many multiples of 2 as we could think of, great and small, on our tables. We crossed out any that were not a multiple of 4 and extended this by working out, and circling, our multiples of 8.  We then answered number statements given to us by finding the answers on our, now heavily inked, tables. 

   

  Naturally, we cleaned up before the end of the day and no-one was any wiser about the graffiti maths we had been doing!  Don't worry grown ups, the class were given strict instructions not to try this at home. 

  

• Cedar Love Commutativity!

  Tue 04 Feb 2020
  Cedar Class are enjoying their Maths so much at the moment. Today, everyone was so involved in drawing their arrays to show that multiplication is commutative (e.g. 3 x 4 = 4 x 3), that Mrs Laycock felt like putting her feet up with a cup of tea! Luckily, she stopped herself just in time and gave out some extra challenges instead. Well done Cedar!