Children from across our key stage 2 were given the opportunity to enter a poetry competition with Young Writers. They had to write a poem about monsters. We have had some of our entries picked to be published in the Young Writers’ poetry book. Well Done!
Year 1 had lots of fun with our solar airship. It needs a still, sunny day to fly and Monday last week was perfect. The sun heats up the black skin (which is as thin as a human hair) and this heats up the air inside. The warm air makes the airship rise – it…
Miss Sowden’s class enjoyed hot chocolate around the fire on a chilly November morning.
Mr Paine is already beginning to see some fantastic home learning coming through during the second half of the autumn term, including this very impressive ‘Mountainscape Cake.’ Both informative and delicious!
Mr Correy’s class made models of the Earth, sun and moon to help them understand how they move in relation to each other. One pupil explained how they move by saying, “The Earth orbits the sun and it takes 365 ¼ days (a.k.a. 1 year). The moon orbits Earth and it takes 28 days.”
Mr Paine’s class got to grips with some tricky maths using Dienes to help visualise the calculations. It was great fun to do some hands-on numeracy learning.
On Friday 15th November, we took part in a variety of fundraising activities across all classes to raise money for BBC Children in Need. We raised a whopping £1020.21! Bake Sale The children in Miss Powley’s class chose to hold a bake sale. We used icing, chocolate buttons, sweets and sprinkles to decorate our cakes…
On Tuesday, we had Odd Socks Day to celebrate that everyone is different and unique. In Miss Sowden’s class, we talked about accepting those differences and how we could help if someone was having a tough day. Here are some of the posters that we made.
On Tuesday 12th November, the children wore odd socks to school to support Anti-Bullying Week, or as we like to name it, Friendship Week. The children donated money for the Anti-Bullying Alliance. In class, the children were learning about how to identify bullying as opposed to teasing, how to deal with bullying, who you can…
Year 4 looked at states of matter in outdoor learning. We talked about the three states of matter – solid, liquid and gas – and discussed that we saw water in all three states. Last week, we had talked about the steam that came from the kettle. We then predicted whether a solid (chocolate) would…