This week we have been exploring the new books that we are going to be looking at in our English lessons this half term. We had to find some similarities between them. We noticed that they were all written by the author Anthony Browne and that in most of his books he uses gorillas as the characters.
This morning, we had a special delivery which we think is cargo from a Viking longship. We explored the different artefacts and discussed and predicted their uses. The children enjoyed time travelling and trying on some Viking clothing.
We made backgrounds for our new books. We blew the paint so it moved around the page. It made some fantastic effects! We have also started creating our Iron Man portraits. Stay tuned for more pictures…
Children found a chalk outline of a body in the school grounds. Although it had a body, two arms, two legs and a head, it did not appear to be a human body as it was really tall and wide and had strange shapes poking out. The children explored the outline and discussed what they think the creature may be and what may have happened. The children then discussed their ideas and shared a story Read more
This morning in maths, Year 4 enjoyed creating clock faces on the playground. They then worked hard converting digital to analogue time. It was lovely to see the children working well in groups and supporting and coaching each other through different challenges. We even had some clock faces using roman numerals!
Our time in Carcasonne has come to an end. We are at the airport ready for our flight home to Manchester. Had a fantastic final few days including more language lessons, walking around Carcasonne castle learning about the history and much more. However, ours and Albert’s favourite day was yesterday when we took a trip to Seysses in Toulouse to visit our link school. It was fantastic. Fascinating to see the similarities and many differences Read more
Today we watched a fantastic performance of ‘One little word’. The performance had no speaking parts at all apart from one little word -sorry! It was a very powerful production and all the children were engaged throughout. Thank you M6 for such a thoughtful story #onelittleword
In Reception, we have been learning about Jack and the Beanstalk. We have been doing lots of reading and writing based on the story. We have enjoyed thinking about what we would buy if we had golden eggs. We also enjoyed making wanted posters of the giant! This week we have been retelling the story. To help us get ready to write the story we have been in the immersive room! It was like we Read more
Year 6 continued their work on inheritance, evolution and Darwin by exploring what DNA is, how it helps decide what type of person we will be and how genetic engineering and selective breeding have affected living things around us. We studied selective breeding in dogs, looking at how species have been selectively bred to create new species. We then studied DNA. We decided that the best way to explain what DNA is is Read more
After weeks of studying Darwin’s work, we were able to use his notes to recreate some of his experiments. We decided to focus on his work on seed dispersal and what he felt he could learn from owl pellets and the study of diets within food chains. The first thing we discovered was that an owl pellet isn’t what we thought. We thought it may be owl food or owl poo!!! In fact, it was Read more