Today’s final forest school session took us off school grounds and into Queens Park. The children had a great time racing ducks in the stream before continuing our walk into the park. On route we spotted a mother duck with her baby goslings. Then, we walked over to the play Read more…
This week Year 4 Maple have continued our exploration of Vikings by learning about Viking longships. We spent the afternoon pretending to be Saxon spies searching the shore to find out more information about our enemies ships. The children worked in teams to create diagrams of the ships. We then Read more…
This half term Year 4 will be learning all about the history of Vikings so this week we had the chance to visit the Jorvik Viking Centre in York. The children were able to take a ride back in time to experience the sights, sounds and smells of Viking-age York. Read more…
This week Year 4 Maple have been celebrating British Science week and thinking about what it means to be a Scientist. The children each drew a picture of what they think a scientist looks like and unsurprisingly we had a lot of Einstein style drawings. We want young people to Read more…
This week Year 4 Maple have enjoyed our first Forest School session. We are linking our sessions with RE in the lead up to the celebration of Easter. Today we learnt all about the beginning of lent and why we celebrate with pancakes. We then enjoyed some pancakes by the Read more…
This half term year 4 will be learning all about space. During today’s lesson our focus question was ‘What are solar and lunar eclipses?’. To help us understand how an eclipse works we went into the playground and worked in groups of 3, with one person playing the role of Read more…
This half-term we have been learning about life as an Anglo-Saxon. During this lesson our focus was ‘What do the Anglo-Saxons believe?’ We learnt that the Anglo-Saxons were originally pagans, which means they believed in many gods and that they were later converted to Christianity with help from a monk Read more…