In our topic of forces in science, we learnt about gravity and how it pulls objects towards the centre of the Earth. We dropped objects onto our “Earth” (made up of flour with a chocolate crust!) and measured the size of the crater. We concluded that the more mass an object has, the more gravity …
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Feb 28 2023
Early Islamic civilisation
During our topic on the early Islamic civilisation, we learnt about the Silk Road and how Baghdad were in a good position meaning they could trade goods with either side. We made our own Silk Road and each group were its own country. We learnt that being on the end was a disadvantage as you …
Feb 28 2023
Mental Health Week
As part of Mental Health Week, we took part in a range of activities to understand what well-being is and how we can look after it. Here are some photos of Year 5 playing bingo to get to find out things they have in common with their friends. We also created our own posters to …
Feb 23 2023
Nursery – Counting to 10 & Story of the week
Our Nursery children have been practising comparing and recognising quantities and the changes in numbers using words such as ‘more’ ‘lots’ ‘same’ ‘too much’”. Also, attached are some pictures of the children exploring the story of the week ‘we’re going on a bear hunt’ with the learning outcomes; to begin to demonstrate an awareness of …
Feb 07 2023
Year 5 – Art
In Year 5, we studied the work of Yulia Brodskaya, a Russian artist whose work focuses on paper folding. We started off learning about Yulia and looking at examples of her work. Then, we learnt how to fold paper in four ways and practised this by imitating one of her pieces. We then finished off …
Feb 07 2023
Ug, Boy Genius of the Stone Age
Year 3 – Our focus book this half term is Ug, Boy Genius of the Stone Age. What we did was use some clay to mould and try imitating the trousers that the main character and his parents wear. We also got to paint them as well. The children loved this activity.
Feb 07 2023
Reception – Jack and the Beanstalk
The children received a sad video email from the giant in ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. Due to Jack chopping down the giant’s beanstalk, he had no way of getting home. The children decided to plant beanstalks to help the giant, get home. You may notice them growing as you walk past our window. After planting …
Feb 02 2023
Year 1 – Senses
Year 1 – In science this half term, we are learning about our senses. We have explored our sense of taste. We tasted lemon juice, honey, marmite, milk, vinegar and orange squash. We described what we could taste using amazing adjectives. Look at our faces! Do you think we liked the tastes?
Jan 30 2023
History – Great Fire of London
Year 2 have explored the events of The Great Fire of London. We looked at how and where it started and that it happened in 1666. We learnt that it destroyed most of London and that six people lost their lives. This led us to think about what went wrong and what the people in …
Jan 27 2023
EYFS – Art Week 2023
Art Week For our Art week project this term, Reception were exploring the artist Alma Thomas. We learnt about Alma and how she was inspired by science and nature. She encouraged the children that she worked with to look closely at nature, and to create art which made them happy. Alma loved using bright, bold …