We had a lovely start to the year by completing lots of fun pirate activities for our new topic Land Ahoy! We have made pirate hats, painted a pirate ship or pirate on purple mash for our front covers for our books, used the Beebots to direct around a treasure Read more…
Last week we researched Anglo Saxon villages in computing, as part of our Traiders and Raiders topic. We used this information to make model villages, using craft materials and natural materials from our school grounds. This helped our discussions about how the Anglo Saxon people lived.
Our new topic is ‘Beachcombers’ so we took a trip to the seaside and completed the FANTASTICS. This will help us with our class story ‘Winnie at the seaside’ and all our topic work.
We have worked really hard this week so on Thursday afternoon we had lots of fun with flowers. We made some gift tags for some lavender bags, drew pictures of flowers on purple mash, wrote acrostic poems, watched a video on how to draw a flower and we completed an Read more…
This week Year 4 have been learning all about looking after our world in Eco Week. We have researched renewable energy sources in computing and have been gardening. First we prepared the soil in our planter by digging and weeding. Working together we also collected litter, sticks blown from the Read more…
We have been working hard this half term to research different educational apps. We asked children in school which different apps they like to use. From this we then downloaded 3 different ones. We practising using these apps then we held a lunch time club where we asked different children Read more…
To retrace Darwin’s footsteps, Year 6 went on a virtual journey around the Galapagos Islands. We used Google Streetview to move around the islands, looking for plant and animal life to observe. We noted the living things we came across and drew conclusions from our observations, such as why certain Read more…
This week we have been making music using purple mash and we have been on a sound hunt around school. We went on a walk around school and around the school grounds. We loved working outside in the lovely weather this week.
Year 4 have started creating animations, using 2 Animate on Purple Mash, based on the Creation Story. This links to our art week work which is on display in the school hall.
We went on an adventure to help to complete our ‘FANTASTICS’ to describe different things we could see, hear and feel. We will then be able to use this experience to help write a setting description for our new class story The Leopards drum.