Year 3 are thoroughly enjoying their drumming lessons, using rhythm and beat to create an ensemble using different types of drums. We have been working and listening collaboratively to copy and repeat the drumming sequences set by the drumming teacher. [gallery ess_grid_gal="alexandra-sidebar" ids="13472,13474,13476,13475,13473"]...
Year 3 stepped into the role of being Stone Age Cave Painters by experimenting with chalks and pastels on bumpy paper to recreate the cave wall. We will then move onto using twigs, stones and charcoal to create shapes, lines and dots caveman style! [gallery ess_grid_gal="alexandra-sidebar"...
Year 4 have been exploring and decomposing Scratch games so that they can use this in their own program. They have then been applying this to control their Sprite to make it move and turn. [gallery ess_grid_gal="alexandra-sidebar" ids="13460,13461,13462"]...
Year 1 had an exciting afternoon sequencing instructions to make a sandwich. This will help them understand the process of writing an algorithm and eventually using this to program a BeeBot. [gallery ess_grid_gal="alexandra-sidebar" ids="13456,13455,13454,13453"]...
In Oak Class this week, we have learnt the importance of light for Christians and created a collaged Christingle. We really enjoyed it and learned a lot! [gallery ess_grid_gal="alexandra-sidebar" ids="13401,13402,13403,13404"] ...
Year 3 had a busy day stepping back into the Stone Age era. We spent time creating a human timeline to learn about chronology, crawled under the desks in the dark to recreate cave paintings and then became archaeologists looking at artefacts and sources to...
On Tuesday, the children in Reception were shocked to find a tray full of water! They soon realised it was the ocean. When exploring the tray, they noticed puddles and splash marks on the floor and came to the conclusion that a sea animal had escaped....
Year 6 had a fantastic afternoon of looking at WW1 artefacts as the Entry Point of our new wider curriculum theme, 'The Great War'. The children were fascinated by the news articles, postcards, letters, Morse coding device and periscope! Not only that, they also discovered how...
As part of our history unit this term, Year 1 have been learning about significant events from beyond living memory and how these events are remembered. We have learned about World War One and how poppies are used as a symbol of remembrance. We visited out...
As part of our local history study, Year 5 visited the home of the Sisley family, Eastbury Manor House. We have been learning about the Reformation in Tudor times in Barking and Dagenham and how it changed our local community. At Eastbury Manor House, we learned...