This week in English, Year 2 thought about their own story idea, where the main character had a flaw. They came up with their character as well as had to think about how the flaw leads their main character into trouble. Children focused on character...
In Year 2, children have been conducting their own science experiment. The children learnt what seeds need in order to grow into a plant. Children carried out a fair test to prove that seeds need water to grow. We put the same amount of seeds...
In Design Technology (DT), we are going to create a monster using a pneumatic system. We have explored how a pneumatic system works using a pump and a balloon. We looked at the different finishing techniques we could apply to our monster to make our...
On Monday, Year 3 visited the British Museum to further their learning about the Ancient Egyptians. They saw a variety of highly decorated sarcophagus as well as examples of mummified bodies. They learned about the clothing and jewellery the Ancient Egyptians would have worn, as...
This half term Year 2 have started to learn a new sport: Tennis. This week, they have been practising becoming familiar with using a ball and racket. They were thinking about how they could balance the ball on the racket carefully without dropping it. They...
In Year 4, the children have started their new PE unit in Volleyball. Being a new sport for us, the children were extremely excited and quickly gained a new skill which was to 'dig' the ball to their partner. It will take us some time...
In Maths, we have been learning about unit and non-unit fractions. We have been learning to use the vocabulary "numerator", "denominator" and "whole" correctly. Using representations, we tried to explain why when the numerator is the same, but the denominator is different - the greater the...
This term we will be focusing on 'Living Things and Their Habits' in Science. This week we started of with the Big Question: 'How can you classify animals?' We looked at how the animal kingdom can be classified into vertebrates and invertebrates. We focused on...
This week, we have been learning about the ancient civilisations of the Shang Dynasty, The Indus Valley and Ancient Sumer. We were researching where the civilisation settled and why, as well as investigating the inventions and technology that they created. We have also been using...
In Year 2 this week we have been learning how to take a good photograph, using digital cameras. We had to think about some different things when we were taking the photos, such as: if we needed to zoom in or not; making sure the...