Following the completion of their SATs, our Year 6 pupils have settled brilliantly into their post-SATs learning and have embraced a range of exciting projects designed to support their transition to secondary school. These activities are helping them develop a deeper understanding of how the...
In Year 5 we have started our final DT unit of the year – gears! Inspired by the story 'Clockwork', we have investigated products that use gears and how systems using gears work. We thought about what happens when a smaller gear is paired with...
Our new Science topic is about states of matter. We have been learning about the properties of solids, liquids and gases. We have been learning about how the molecules within a material are structured in different ways according to whether the material is a solid,...
This week, Year 3 learnt about Howard Carter and his famous discovery of the tomb of the boy king – Tutankhamun. The children took part in role play so they could empathise with Howard Carter and try to imagine how he felt when he made...
This term, in Year 2 we are designing and making our own wheeled vehicles. We first explored a variety of wheeled toys and discussed how wheels are attached to the chassis using axles. Then we investigated different ways to make axle holders; using straws, cardboard...
In our Computing lessons this half term we are exploring programming. We are using the program ‘Scratch Junior’. This week, the children created their own programming blocks by using a start button, 5 movement buttons and an end button. We used the block to move...
Our big question in Art this half term is ‘How can we print with different materials?’ This week we printed with our hands. First we carefully painted our hands, we then pressed our hand onto the paper and held it there for 5 seconds without...
Linked to our unit on ‘Budding Builders’, the Nursery have started to look at whether objects are heavy or light and using weighing scales. We have looked at different materials and discussed which materials may be heavy, for example: metal and wood. We also looked...
We have been learning about how doctors and nurses help us. In our book, Zog, a kind girl helps Zog the dragon, after he has lots of accidents! Sometimes, we might have accidents or not feel well and visit a doctor. We pretended to be...
This week we have took part in a role play to experience core vocabulary. The children had acted out as Zog who is the dragon in the story and imitated the actions of ‘roaring’ and ‘flying’. To understand the key vocabulary, the children then completed...