This afternoon, a group of children from Year 5 took part in the Great Science Share. We met with the other schools in the Arch Alliance over Zoom and each presented a Science investigation to each other which we followed and completed. The investigations that we did are: How does Read more…
We have spent our Topic lesson this afternoon exploring the Greek Artefacts topic box that we have rented from Touchstones Museum. We have had some brilliant discussions about what the artefacts were, what they were used for and what materials they were made from.
As part of outdoor classroom day and mental health awareness week we took part in a forest school taster session with Miss Steele and Mr Tompkins. We took part in lots of different activities: we went on the hunt for ‘something special’ we were shown how to make a campfire Read more…
This half term our topic is ‘Gods and Mortals’, and in our lessons we are learning about Ancient Greece. For our topic lesson today we were lucky enough to watch a show performed by The Hobgoblin Theatre Company called Perseus and Medusa. It is one of the many Greek myths Read more…
Today we celebrated Red Nose Day by coming into school in our own clothes and doing crazy things to our hair! This afternoon we have watched funny videos and completed some mindfulness colouring!
This year we weren’t able to go to a Pantomime, so the pantomime came to us! We have had a really fun afternoon watching the lockdown Panto, joining in with the songs, booing the baddies and shouting “it’s behind you!”
In today’s History lesson we learnt about Stonehenge. We talked about the history of the monument and the names of the different parts of it. We then tried to create the different parts using biscuits to represent the stones. We made the outer circle, the bluestones and the horseshoe. Read more…
We had lots of fun last night at our Year 3 Christmas movie night. We watched the film Nativity, drank hot chocolate and marshmallows and ate popcorn. The countdown to Christmas has started!
This afternoon in Topic we learnt about the role of an archaeologist. We looked at the process they undertake which taught us new vocabulary like excavate. We then took on the role of an archaeologist and excavated various artefacts.
During this half term in our Topic lessons we have been learning about volcanos. We have learnt lots of new words, some of which are quite hard to remember! We decided to put some actions to the words to try and help us remember what they mean. These are the Read more…