English
Year 3 Birch – social reading
Children loved choosing a book with their friend and reading it together, discussing different themes.
Art & Design
Sling shot cars 🚗
This afternoon, Hawthorn have worked so hard to create their slingshot cars focusing on the cars body work! they created two side panels and the over head panel and then attached them together to create their car! Super work.
Art & Design
Year 3 Birch – Ancient Greek pottery mood boards
We had lots of fun collecting ideas and patterns from the Ancient Greek pottery we have researched. We put these ideas onto a mood board in our art books, thinking about colour patterns and mythical creatures. They look really effective!
Music
Year 3 Birch – Ukulele
The children always enjoy our ukulele sessions! They have been learning simple chords to SpongeBob SquarePants theme tune, three little birds by Bob Marley and Get Back by the Beetles.
Eco Committee
Gardening club – planting plugs
We loved preparing our planter for the vegetable plugs. We planted carrots, beetroot, leeks and sprouts!
Physical Education
Netball
The team did so well at Netball last night. We are extremely proud of how hard they worked. Well done, girls!
Geography
Map work
We began our Geography lesson looking at different maps and why we use them. We then looked at different symbols on maps and what a key is used for. Next we explored Kayden’s garden then when we returned to class we made a Birds Eye view of the garden. Afterwards we created our own key and completed some sentences about different features in the garden using directional language.
Design and technology
The Magic Flute
This afternoon, we started a new project in our DT lesson. It is a create and design project with the royal Opera House based around ‘The Magic Flute’. We spent the lesson discussing: * What is opera? * What is a set designer * Our design brief * Items we will need. We also looked at the many different people it takes to create an opera, from the set designers to the orchestra to the Read more
Art & Design
The Magic Flute lesson 1
This afternoon, year 4 began their DT create and design project with the Royal Opera House. for our first lesson, we looked at -what is opera? – what is a set designer? – our design brief – items we will need our focus is the magic flute! we also thought about the many careers that people have at the opera house. These include: set designers, set builders, conductors, orchestra, composer and many more! We are Read more
Reading
Year 4 Maple visit Heywood Library
This afternoon, Year 4 Maple visited Heywood library. We enjoyed looking through the selection of books and taking some time reading for pleasure. Every child chose a book to bring back to school that were able to stamp themselves. What a lovely afternoon we’ve had!