Pilgrims Way Primary School
  • Home
  • Classes
    • Reception
    • Year 1
    • Year 2
    • Year 3
    • Year 4
    • Year 5
    • Year 6
  • School
    • About Us
    • Achievements
    • Newsletters
    • Our Governors
    • Our Staff
    • School Council
  • Parents
    • Admissions
    • After School Club
    • Breakfast Club
    • Jargon Explained
    • Letters to Parents
    • OFSTED Report
    • Online Safety
    • Parent Events
    • Parent View (Ofsted)
    • Privacy Notice for Pupils and Parents
    • Pupil Premium
    • School Daily Timetable
    • School Menu
    • School Uniform
    • SEN Offer
    • Term Dates
  • Pupils
    • Learning Mentors
    • Online Safety
    • School Council
    • Sports
  • Statutory Information
    • Accessibility Plan 2018
    • Additional Policies
    • Admissions
    • Anti Bullying Policy
    • Attendance
    • Behaviour Policy
    • Charging and remissions policy 2020
    • Complaints Model Policy – Pilgrims’ Way 2020
    • Equality objective
    • Equality Statement
    • Homework Policy
    • OFSTED
    • Pilgrims’ Way 2020-21 Sports Premium
    • Pupil Premium
    • Remote Learning Policy
    • Safeguarding Policy September 2020
    • Safeguarding Policy Addendum -Model COVID-19
    • SEN
    • SEN Policy October 2017
    • Values and Ethos
  • Curriculum
    • Curriculum Overview
    • English Curriculum
    • Maths Curriculum
    • R.E Curriculum
    • Science Curriculum
  • Contact Us

Pilgrims Way Primary School

Banner
  • Home
  • Classes
    • Reception
    • Year 1
    • Year 2
    • Year 3
    • Year 4
    • Year 5
    • Year 6
  • School
    • About Us
    • Achievements
    • Newsletters
    • Our Governors
    • Our Staff
    • School Council
  • Parents
    • Admissions
    • After School Club
    • Breakfast Club
    • Jargon Explained
    • Letters to Parents
    • OFSTED Report
    • Online Safety
    • Parent Events
    • Parent View (Ofsted)
    • Privacy Notice for Pupils and Parents
    • Pupil Premium
    • School Daily Timetable
    • School Menu
    • School Uniform
    • SEN Offer
    • Term Dates
  • Pupils
    • Learning Mentors
    • Online Safety
    • School Council
    • Sports
  • Statutory Information
    • Accessibility Plan 2018
    • Additional Policies
    • Admissions
    • Anti Bullying Policy
    • Attendance
    • Behaviour Policy
    • Charging and remissions policy 2020
    • Complaints Model Policy – Pilgrims’ Way 2020
    • Equality objective
    • Equality Statement
    • Homework Policy
    • OFSTED
    • Pilgrims’ Way 2020-21 Sports Premium
    • Pupil Premium
    • Remote Learning Policy
    • Safeguarding Policy September 2020
    • Safeguarding Policy Addendum -Model COVID-19
    • SEN
    • SEN Policy October 2017
    • Values and Ethos
  • Curriculum
    • Curriculum Overview
    • English Curriculum
    • Maths Curriculum
    • R.E Curriculum
    • Science Curriculum
  • Contact Us

Reception

Teacher – Tina Roche

Teaching assistant – Violet Ramdass

Nursery Nurse – Abidina Kallon

 

Dinosaurs

Reception Spring Term

CLL – communication, language and literacy

Describe and name a dinosaur they have designed.

Adopt a role e.g. a palaeontologist in the Dinosaur Museum role play area (fill with papier mache fossils, paintbrushes, magnifying glasses, maps etc.).

Create a reading area of fiction and non-fiction books on the topic. Share dinosaur stories.

Compose new dinosaur names, possibly to describe their own designs e.g. ‘Meanosaurus’ or using their own

names e.g. ‘Oliverosaurus’.

List adjectives to describe a dinosaur

Children to write a description of a dinosaur for the others to solve.

Missing/Wanted posters describing dinosaur.

Write like a dinosaur with ‘claws’ in mud, put lolly sticks through rubber gloves.


M – Maths

Number – have a dinosaur/egg hunt. Estimate

number of dinosaurs in a jar. Number recognition

games. Count the spikes and teeth on different dinosaurs. Doubling groups of dinosaurs and halving groups.

Measures – measure out the actual length or height of a dinosaur. Use large dinosaur feet to measure length outside.

Use small dinosaurs to measure length and height around the classroom. Make clay bones and when dry order them by size.

Shape– create dinosaur pictures using various shapes, 2D and 3D.

Blindfold friend and give directions to find a hidden dinosaur.

Handling Data – create a class pictogram or graph

of favourite dinosaurs. Collect data on dinosaurs.

Group dinosaurs using own criteria.

Group dinosaurs into tens, count in tens to find the total.

One more/less/addition/subtraction with small dinosaurs.


UW- understanding the world

Discuss changes caused by time.

What do you think the earth looked like when dinosaurs roamed? How is it different now? (Create a dinosaur land in the small world tray using ferns, sand etc.).

Group dinosaurs according to observations e.g. horns/no horns, walks on 2 legs/walks on 4 legs etc.

Freeze mini dinosaurs in ice and investigate how to free them.

Use the internet to find places in the world where dinosaur fossils have been found.

Play a dinosaur habitat game, explore features each dinosaur had.

Talk about how dinosaurs were mainly reptiles & laid eggs to have babies.

Make a volcano, experiment by making it explode using vinegar & soda bicarbonate.

Explain that some dinosaurs were plant eaters, and some ate meat.

Make pancakes and chocolate rice crispy cakes – observe the changes.

PD – physical development

Develop gross motor movements to mimic various

dinosaurs e.g. moving on all fours, on two legs, flapping wings etc.

Develop fine motor movements through digging,

scraping, chipping etc. at fossils using various small

tools.

Dinosaur stations game – call dinosaur name and

children follow commands to travel to correct station e.g. “Stomp to stegosaurus”

Provide modelling clay for children to make their own dinosaurs.

Junk modelling dinosaurs.

Digging in the fossil excavation area.


PSED – personal, social and emotional development

Discuss the importance of looking after our world

and caring for the environment

 What does the term ‘extinct’ mean?

What would happen if dinosaurs lived now?


EAD – expressive arts and design

Make dinosaur skeletons using pipe cleaners or collages using various dried pasta shapes

Design & create models using recycled materials.

Explore using various materials such as papier mache (place a small dinosaur in a balloon, inflate then cover with papier mache. Children can crack open the egg & identify the baby dinosaur) & plaster of paris (use to create an imprint of a skeleton or foot print and bury in soil/sand for children to discover)

Make paper mache volcanoes, make the volcanoes erupt.

Create a musical dinosaur dance using dinosaur music.

Make dinosaur skeletons from pipe cleaners. Make collages using dried pasta shapes.

Use plaster of paris to make dinosaur footprints/skeletons.

Use macaroni to make dinosaurs and tea leaves for mud to make an excavation picture.

A journey to success

We strive to succeed. The school provides me with the support and opportunity to be my very best

Pupil’s quote of the week

If only I could concentrate, I would be a success

Search the website here

Gallery

1 (3) - Copy 1 (2) - Copy IMG_0095 3 IMG_0138 IMG_0195 IMG_0155 - Copy IMG_0191 IMG_0188

Classes

  • Reception
  • Year 1
  • Year 2
  • Year 3
  • Year 4
  • Year 5
  • Year 6
Footer Logo

Pilgrims' Way Primary School, Manor Grove, Tustin Estate, London SE151EF


Back To Top