A busy week for Year 6…
This week, Year 6 has been working extremely hard to complete their SATs! We are all so amazed by not only their hard work, but their resilience and attitude each day when coming into school. We finished the week with an exciting rewards trip to the cinema to watch Fantastic Beasts- Ask a member of […]
Shell structure construction
Wow. What a busy week for Sycamore class. Sycamore class have been doing daily practice of their times tables. Each day they are becoming quicker at retrieving their times tables up to 12×12. The children have been in daily battles Teacher Vs Sycamore. Today, Sycamore class finished their final product completing our DT unit based […]
Wonderful Watercolour
This week, Hawthorn Class have been learning some different watercolour techniques in preparation for creating a landscape painting. In English, they have been writing a survival narrative – using our vehicle text ‘The Lost Book of Adventures’ as inspiration. In Maths, Hawthorn Class have been introduced to percentages – using knowledge of fractions and decimals […]
Artists in the Making!
This week Cedar class have been very busy. In Maths we have been finishing off our unit on place value to 50 by counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. In English the children have begun planning their own return stories based off the story of The Secret of Black Rock. In Art, the children have […]
Outdoor Computing!
We have been doing some very exciting physical computing- We looked at how messages are transmitted by creating messages to pass to friends across the playground and how they are broken up as they are transferred. In English, we have been planning and writing an Endurance story, all about the journey of Shackleton across to […]
A taste of Europe
This week Sycamore class have engaged really well in our geography and DT lessons. The children used maps and atlases to identify the capital cities in Europe. The children thoroughly enjoyed our lesson based on dishes from different cultures. As a class we discussed where the different dishes come from such as grown, reared, caught […]
Egyptian workshop!
What a fantastic start to the week in Willow Class! This week the children had a full day workshop and immersed themselves into Egyptian archaeology. They took part in a mummification ritual led by our knowledgeable visitor and were lucky enough to handle artefacts that were thousands of years old! We had lots of other […]
Super Survival Skills
This week, Hawthorn Class have enjoyed learning more about their English text – The Lost Book of Adventures. They are beginning to prepare for writing their own survival narrative about a character who must embark on a life threatening journey through a dangerous setting! In Maths, we have continued to explore decimal numbers with up […]
Exploring Europe!
This week in Sycamore class the children have been applying the geography skills to identifying countries in the continent of Europe. The children conducted research based on different countries in the continent and compared the different currencies, languages, land marks and also found out the capital cities. The class were also very eager when researching […]