Art & Design
Power Prints!
For our final Art lesson, we created our own prints using different materials to show off our skills learnt during the half term. Children worked collaboratively to create their designs and print onto the materials.
Careers Related Learning
NatWest Money Sense
During financial awareness week, we were lucky enough to have a visit from Steph who taught us all about her job within finance and teach us about fraud. During this week, we learnt a lot about careers that can be held within the finance industry. We worked together to see Read more
Design and Technology
Pavilions lesson 1
This half term, year 4 are focusing on structure during their DT topic. For the first lesson, the children worked together to create small 3D structures that we are to stand alone. They create different shapes to hold together and begin to understand how structures need stability and reinforcement.
Art & Design
Cutting and drawing with precision
During our Art lessons, we have been creating pieces of art work focusing on precision using scissors to create the first picture and then creating our own scratch picture with wax crayons and paint, to re-crate the original picture. The children did so well concentrating hard to ensure they could Read more
Careers Related Learning
Languages Club
Thank you to all that attended Languages Club this half term. We’ve been very busy learning greetings in different languages, we looked at different European flags and matched languages to their country of origin, played games using the phrases and words we had learnt and even tasted some different foods Read more
Careers Related Learning
Skills builder – listening and speaking
This half term we are focusing on two skills based on our Skills Builder programme. Our focus is listening and speaking. Children reflected on themselves as a learner and how they rate themselves in terms of listening and speaking. We thought about the types of jobs that require excellent listening Read more
History
Black History Month
Today we have read and learnt about the importance of Black History Month. Children were able to recognise some significant people who have made a difference to the world due to their hard work and determination but also played a part in history due to their racial heritage. We learnt Read more
History
Roman experience!
Last week, we were lucky enough to experience a Roman workshop. During the workshop, we learnt about Roman life, their amour and created our very own Roman flag. We tried the amour on, which was very heavy! We also had the chance to look at a number of artefacts that Read more
French
European Day of Languages 2024
On Friday we had so much fun celebrating the European Day of Languages. We got to experience a dance workshop taught by a French teacher, enjoyed a traditional French snack and researched a European country of our choice! Thank you to Mrs Pilliterri for organising. some children commented : I Read more
Forest school
Forest school! Hawthorn
Yesterday the children had their first sessions of forest school of the year! The children were absolutely brilliant. The children worked well together to complete their activities. All staff commented how well behaved the children were during their time at forest school. The children were able to to learn how Read more