The children in Year 4 had another busy week with lots of practical learning opportunities. In English, the children published their final non-chronological reports showing off some beautiful handwriting and excellent drawings to accompany their scientific texts. In Maths, the class moved onto calculating fractions of amounts using bar modelling before further advancing to exploring […]
This week has been lots of fun and excitement. On Monday, we received a letter from The Natural History Museum, asking us to look after a rare dinosaur egg. The children wrote letters back to say they would take care of it. They asked questions, for example When will it hatch? What dinosaur is inside? […]
On Tuesday, Year 6 took part in the annual Safer Internet Day, where they explored how technology has changed over time. Together, they had lots of fun thinking creatively and sharing ideas on what changes they thought might happen in the future. In RE this week, Year 6 were fascinated by a video taken […]
It’s the end of another week, so here’s a snapshot of what we’ve been up to in Year 5: 🔬 Science: We dove into a fun investigation on water resistance, exploring how differently-shaped stones behave when dropped into water. It’s been interesting to see how streamlining affects their sinking speed! 📚 English: Continuing our journey […]
Today, the children in Year 6 were led in prayer by Lucy, Naomi and Grey, in a very beautiful act of worship on the theme of ‘Diversity’. The accompanying music, bible reading and reflection were very well thought out, planned and executed, and certainly set a high benchmark for the rest of the class. Well […]
In our English lessons this week, we have described and created wanted posters for characters based our class book. We have used our Computing skills in Geography, to create the food chain of an Emperor Penguin, using the Popplet app on the iPads. In PE, we have developed our hockey dribbling and learnt how to […]
It has been a very good week in Year One. The children have been progressing with their Animal dance sequence and worked in partners to show each other their animal dancing. They helped each other by discussing how they could improve their movements and took it in turns to demonstrate these. They had fun playing […]
This week in Year 3 the children have been busy with their learning. In Maths the children have been provided with lots of practical experience of dividing by sharing and grouping. They looked at how the use of arrays emphasises the link between multiplication and division. They were then supported to develop their understanding of […]
The children in Year 4 had another busy week of learning. In Maths, the class further consolidated the use of fraction walls to order and compare non unit fractions and to recognise fractions that are equal. The class also identified non unit fractions of sets and shapes. In English, the children used their ‘Dragon plans’ […]
This week the children’s learning has been based around the Gingerbread Man. The children made some gingerbread men through collage, playdough and some wonderful pictures. They have been writing about the story, making story maps and writing an alternative ending. Outside the children have been building bridges to help the gingerbread man to cross the […]
