Drama
The Jungle Book
KS2 were treated to a fantastic performance of The Jungle Book by M&M theatre company. All of the children really enjoyed the show and Year 6 were able to take part in a workshop afterwards.
Art & Design
World book Day
📚✨ World Book Day in Maple Class! ✨📚 Maple Class had a fantastic time celebrating World Book Day and Careers week! We saw some amazing costumes including Tracey Beaker, the Hulk, Snow White, Cinderella and many more wonderful characters. It was brilliant to see everyone bring their favourite stories to Read more
Careers Related Learning
Careers week – engineering challenge
Year 4 have had a fantastic week celebrating Careers Week, with a special focus on engineering. Throughout the week, the children explored how engineers design solutions to real-world problems. Our challenge asked the question: How can robots be designed to support patients to develop fine motor skills and muscle strength? Read more
Design and Technology
D and T – evaluating biscuits
This week in Year 4, we became food designers as part of Design and Technology lesson on adapting a recipe. Our mission was to explore different types of biscuits, taste and evaluate them, and then use our findings to help us design our own adapted biscuit recipe. Investigating Existing Products Before Read more
Year 4 - Hawthorn
Random acts of kindness day
🌈 Random Acts of Kindness Day To celebrate Random Acts of Kindness Day, year 4 created some bright and colourful artwork to share with residents at a local elderly care home. Our goal was simple — to spread a little happiness and bring some extra colour into their day. Each Read more
Christian Values
LGBT+ History Month- Science and Innovation
During our LGBT+ History Month collective worship, we learned about the theme of science and innovation and why it is important to recognise the contributions of LGBT+ people throughout history. We talked about how science and innovation help make the world a better place and how many inventors, scientists, and thinkers Read more
Year 4 - Maple
Promoting self- efficacy
In our recent collective worship assembly, we focused on the theme of self-efficacy and the importance of believing in ourselves. We explored the story of The Tortoise and the Hare, discussing how the tortoise succeeds by trusting his own abilities and persevering rather than comparing himself to others. This led Read more
English
The Water Cycle
We have started our new English unit where we will be writing a factual tour about the water cycle. We spent today’s lesson learning some facts about the water cycle and creating our own mini water cycles to observe the process.
Computing
STEM Space Show
Yesterday we took part in the live online lesson “Spaceship Earth”, an exciting and interactive space-themed STEM experience that brought learning to life. During the session, Maple learnt how satellites are launched into space and how they orbit the Earth to collect vital information. We discovered how satellites are used Read more
Art & Design
Shared Learning
We have had a lovely afternoon at our Shared Learning experience with our families. We linked our activity to the book we are currently reading in our English lessons – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The children worked with their adult to design a new chocolate bar – they had Read more