This week in Science, we have been investigating the properties of materials and selecting materials for a purpose. We conducted an egg drop experiment where we had to select materials to create a container to protect an egg dropped from a height. It was trickier...
This week Year One spotted something peculiar in their classrooms. On the tables they found purple prickles, green poisonous warts, a black tongue, knobbly knees and terrible claws. On the screen, were glowing orange eyes. The children used all the clues and realised who was...
In PE this week, we have been practising our sports day activities. We have been learning to move in different ways, throw a foam javelin, jump from a starting point and to use our balance and coordination skills. Most importantly, we have been learning to...
This week in Nursery, we were looking at our Big Question for Computing – ‘How can we take a photograph? We started off by looking at some photos and then discussed what devices could be used to take photos, e.g. tablets, cameras and phones. During...
In the Meadow this week, we have practised the skill of combining ingredients in our cooking session and made biscuits with dinosaur foot prints. Children enjoyed filling the footprints with coloured icing, but eating them was their absolute favourite part. [gallery ids="20605,20606,20607"]...
We have continued with our History topic – The Maya. This week we have been learning about where the Maya civilisation was located and the names and location of some of the major Mayan cities. We discovered that they were a Mesoamerican civilisation and that...
Year 5 have been investigating complements to 1 for numbers with up to 2 decimal places. They used counters to make links between 1, tenths and hundredths in order to understand the corresponding number bonds to 1. This also enabled the children to understand how...
On Tuesday, a cohort of excited Year 4 pupils embarked on a journey to the Natural History Museum, to help support their learning of earthquakes and volcanoes, linked to their Summer Term 2 Topic: When in Rome. Here, learning leapt off the pages of their...
In Art this term we are developing our drawing skills, using hatching, cross-hatching and scumbling sketching techniques. We will draw our own still life applying these skills to create a piece inspired by the artist Jessica Scherr Russo. Using real life objects, we will look...
