The Queen’s Jubilee

This week we have took part in lots of Queen’s Jubilee activities. We have completed Jubilee themed maths and English, created London themed book marks and created coasters in the shape of crowns which we can use with our new Jubilee mugs. Yesterday we got the chance to look at some old items which were 50, 60 and 70 year old items. We enjoyed looking and touching the items, we even got the chance to Read more

The Queen’s Jubilee

This week we have celebrated the Queen’s jubilee in school. We started the week off by completing some crafts all to do with the jubilee. We got the chance to look at some old items which were 50, 60 and 70 year old items. We enjoyed looking and touching the items, we even got the chance to try some of the clothes on. Over dinner we had our very own picnic on the field outside, Read more

Buggingham Palace

Year 3 have had a wonderful time working with workers from the Willmott Dixon company to create a bug hotel fit for a Queen Bee. We also enjoyed planting and weeding and consolodating our learning from our Science topic Plants by getting Kaden’s garden ready for the Jubillee celebrations. Here are some pictures of our fantastic day.  

Jubilee celebration

This week we have had Stumberlina Vintage bring in some artefacts for the children to look at. The children have had so much fun looking at the different artefacts and trying on the clothes:

York Trip

Hawthorn have really enjoyed learning all about the Vikings this half term. We started off our new topic with a trip to York where we learnt all about life as a Viking.

A Quacking Morning

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 area where we enjoyed ice pops and quality time with our friends.

Art – still life sketches

To begin our latest art unit, we brought in 5 items that are special to us. These ranged from pictures, toys, teddies, clothing and other interesting items. Our project involves creating a box to keep the items in, with 4 different pieces of artwork to be created for the faces of the box. Our first piece was to create a pencil sketch of our items, looking at proportions, compositions and shading to show light and Read more

Science – Living Organisms and Organ Systems

To begin our science topic – Cells – we looked at what characteristics organisms need have to be classed as living.   We used the term ‘Mrs Gren’ to help us to remember all 7: Movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excrete and nutrition. We then planted cress seeds and looked at how the plants moved towards a light source as they convert sunlight into food (photosynthesis). We then looked at how organ systems in plants Read more