Thank you to everyone who joined us this morning for our shared learning and lunch. We had a great time learning about hieroglyphics and writing and reading messages in ancient Egyptian writing. We then found out about the ancient Egyptian mummification process and how they removed their organs and stored Read more…
This week year 3 have been learning about the layers of the Earth. After finding out the names for last weeks homework, today we found out more information about each layer, including temperatures, sizes and what they were made up of. We then used our knowledge to help us to Read more…
We went up to Kayden’s garden to make dens and nests for the woodland creatures that might come sniffing round in the garden during the night! We had lots of fun finding sticks of the right length to make appropriate dens and nests. It was great to see that the Read more…
Today we brought the designs we created last week into life to create signs to encourage others to take care of our school environment. Following specific design criteria, we first used our cutting skills to cut out our preferred shape. Then, we carefully drew our message and image, before using Read more…
Elm had a great afternoon on Wednesday creating Christingles. We first learnt about why we make Christingles and what each part of the Christingle represents, then we enjoyed making our own Christingles. The children then learnt a little more about Christingles during assembly on Thursday. The children were very Read more…
Year 4 Hawthorn have shown some fantastic team work during out D&T lessons. They worked in groups to create their mountain structures. Some of their ideas didn’t go to plan, but they didn’t give up and used some brilliant problem solving. How amazing do our finished mountains look!
Ash have had a fun but busy afternoon. We learnt why we make Christingles and what each part represents. Then we made our own Christingles and managed to resist the temptation of eating the sweets on them. We also made our Christmas jump up’s ready for the school Chridtmas Read more…
The children have been very busy today creating designs for a sign, reminding people to take care of our school environment. The children came up with some wonderful ideas such as ‘pick up litter’, ‘recycle’, ‘keep off the grass’ and ‘don’t touch the windows with grubby fingers’! Here is a Read more…
Last week we created prototypes and designs for our Mountain models. Today was the fun part! We showed some fantastic team work as we started to create our mountain structures using cups and Papier- Mache although I think there was more glue on some of our hands than there was Read more…
Today we were put into groups and each group were given a different picture of a Mountain Range. During this half term, we are going to be creating models of our Mountain range. Today we created prototypes of our structures and made annotated sketches of our designs.