Week 1
Although this week should have been part of the Easter holidays, some staff and a few pupils have been in school.
Monday
Today we spent a lot of time making paper aeroplanes. We were trying to make our planes go as far as we could. We also spent some time playing on the wheelie boards.
Tuesday
Today we have had a very exciting day, involving different
types of obstacle courses. We have been getting creative with the wobble
boards, and started by negotiating an indoor obstacle course on these. This
soon moved on to creating our own obstacle courses in the playground, as well
as playing some ball games. It has been such wonderful weather that we spent
hardly any time indoors, practising our Frisbee skills on the playground. After
some time creating different types of paper aeroplane, the children spent time
in the field building a fort with Mrs Yeomans, working together to find the
most appropriate materials for this.
Wednesday
Today we
played on the scooter boards/shuffle boards for a while, and took them outside
as well. We did some painting and used some of the how to draw videos on
YouTube. Played on the wii for a bit. In the afternoon we played in the
allotment, planting sun flowers and water melon!
Thursday
At the start of the day, we made big Easter eggs using
balloons and papier mache. Once covered we left them to dry ready to paint! We
then played on the scooter boards/shuffle boards outside. We then went on iPads
and played maths bingo.
In the afternoon, we made Easter baskets and decorated them.
We then went on an Easter egg hunt in the allotment. After, we stayed in the
allotment for a while before ending the day by watching a programme about
sharks.
Friday
Our morning began with
some water fun in the allotment. The staff watered plants, while the children dug holes
and filled them with water to make a pond. Sadly, the water drained away so no
frogs today! When we
returned to the main building, we saw a beautiful
peacock butterfly! We watched it for a while, having a drink from water spilled
on the ground.
Inside, we built a
marble run and had fun seeing how many marbles we could get on at one go. Next, we rode across the playground to the
Forest Area. Some tree climbing followed and we found some good resting places.
After lunch outside, our intrepid explorer
crossed a deep chasm, balancing with great skill on the narrow log bridge! More time spent playing with marbles kept us out of the sun
for a while. A round of tennis finished off the afternoon before going home for
tea.
Despite the
rain outside, we have had a very productive and varied day today at Calton.
English came
next, with some excellent writing and story maps being created across the hall.
There were some excellent discussions and ideas amongst the children during this
time. 
We spent a
bit more time in the playground before coming back inside for some free choice
of drawing or reading. The children have shown a lot of different skills today
and have had a wonderful time.
We followed
this with our Maths learning from eSchools. Most of us were on our White Rose
maths for our year groups using the laptops.
Before we knew
it, it was lunchtime and we had more play outside after eating together in the
hall. 
We began the
morning with some silent reading and colouring in order to settle ourselves in,
before beginning some maths in our year groups. The children worked wonderfully
through this lesson and completed a lot of work, as well as showing brilliant
understanding.
After lunch,
we completed various Quest-based tasks within our year group. There were some
beautiful French rainbows coloured by Reception and Year 1, with Year 2
creating pictures of, and describing their families to each other. Year 3 Did
some fascinating research into significant palaeontologists, and with Year 5
putting similar interest into their research on the changing borders of Europe
during World War I. 
We started off today with some reading. Everyone was given a book from their reading level and we each read with an adult. Most of us had not bought our WOW books with us so we spent some time designing a front cover for our temporary WOW books.
The teachers thought it would be nice if we wrote letters to people that are living in care homes as they might be lonely because they cannot have visitors at the moment. In the letters we talked about the things we liked to do and also said what we liked to eat. We then asked them some questions about themselves and drew a picture of ourselves. We made sure we did not give our full names as we needed to make sure we stayed safe.
We had our snacks whilst watching Deadly 60 on the interactive whiteboard. There were some very big birds on it that could catch seagulls. Before lunch we went outside to play. We played on the bikes and scooters. We also played tennis, catch and other ball games. It was very warm but very windy as well.After lunch we went on DoodleMaths on the iPads and had a short play outside. When we came back in we all chose different Lego challenges to complete. We also watched Shaun the Sheep on the computer. 
We wanted to say a big thank you to all the key workers and to show our appreciation we decorated the letters that spell out “Thank you key workers” and will laminate them ready to display outside school.
Time for some decorating! We had a selection of icing sugar and some biscuits and decorated them to make them wonderful and colourful. We thoroughly enjoyed this activity especially having a little nibble afterwards.
In the afternoon we spent some time playing on the field. We created some lovely assault courses, which we all had great fun using. The we came back inside to decorate Easter eggs! We used pegs and pom-poms to create splodges and patterns over our eggs. 
