Whole School
Maths treasure hunt
In today’s maths lesson, we had to search for questions around the playground, which related to different things we have learnt. Each answer linked to a letter, which we used to form a word.
English
Persuasive writing!
Hawthorn have written a letter to an author of their choice to persuade them to come to our school to promote the love of reading. They did a splendid job of persuading the authors!
Maple 2020
Bonfire night
Please talk to your child/children about staying safe now it is darker earlier and about keeping safe during bonfire night. Click the links below for more information. https://www.think.gov.uk/education-resources/ https://6282.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/Be_Bright_Be_Seen-A5-Flyer.pdf /http://www.bonfire-night-safety.co.uk/ Safety First – Cycling at Night
Growth Mind-set
#HelloYellow for World Mental Health day
Today the school celebrated World Mental Health day by coming dressed in Yellow, to raise money for YoungMinds, and participating in a number of well-being activities. Classes across the school took part in lessons and discussions about what mental health is, why looking after our mental health is important and Read more
Year 4 - Hawthorn
Tooth decay experiment!
Today, Year 4 Hawthorn carried out a science experiment to identify which drink would decay our teeth the most. We have used water, milk, coke, apple juice and orange juice for our experiment. We dropped boiled eggs into the liquid to see what would happen to the shell. Over the Read more
Whole School
Welcome to Year 4 Hawthorn
Year 4 Hawthorn have been amazing the past two days. They’ve come in very big smiles and lots of energy. Today, we had a brilliant time writing our friendship recipes. They came up with great ideas about how we can bake the perfect friend. I am looking forward to the Read more
Year 4 - Hawthorn
Keep in touch
Hello Hawthorn, Hope you are all having a lovely week so far. It has been great to see some of the activities you have been getting up to on twitter. Your rainbows look fantastic and I am sure they will make many people smile. It’s great to see you all Read more
Computing
Online safety- challenge 3
Our challenge this half term was focused on ‘Safer Internet day’. Over the passed few weeks we have been meeting to prepare for a KS1 and a KS2 assembly where we talked about the importance of online safety. In addition to this each class had a new class book Read more
Art & Design
Art Week- Raewyn Harris
This week we have been looking at the artist ‘ Raewyn Harris.’ Raewyn is famous for creating Koru art. The Koru is a spiral shaped plant. To people of New Zealand, the Koru represents the unfolding of new life or renewal. First we looked at and discussed Raewyn’s art work. Read more
History
The Romans
Today, year 4 had a very exciting lesson! A visitor from touchstones came to speak to us all about the Romans. We looked at and discussed Roman artifacts, worked as group to try and build a straight road and learnt lots of interesting facts about the Romans.