Weather Vanes in Year 2

As part of their Georgaphy topic “Weather”, Year 2 have been preparing their own weather stations. First they learnt about the compass points and then they created their own weather vanes. Look out for them observing the direction of the wind!

Visit to the Care Home

On Thursday, six children from Years 3 and 4 visited Leah Lodge Care home. They shared some stories with the residents who were keen to hear them read. Before we went we had a chat about what dementia was and how we can best support people in the community who suffer from this illness. All […]

Small or far away? Year 3 explore perspective

We’ve looked at monochromatic watercolours of mountain scenes and are using them to inspire our own work. We went out into the playground to explore perspectives – are our classmates smaller, or just further away? We have begun to plan our paintings and look forward to sharing the final pieces.

Gruffalo crumble!

Today we made Gruffalo crumble! We weighed out all the ingredients and learnt how to use the scales. Nearly all of us tried it, and some of us had a few portions as it was so yummy. The teachers we shared it with liked it too!

Reception measure up

We have been building rockets and growing lentil and pea sprouts so that we could measure how tall they became. It turns out we can measure humans too!

Year 5 : Lava lamps in Science

As part of their ‘Materials’ topic, Year 5 were tasked with making lava lamps this afternoon. The children made very careful observations and worked hard to include their new scientific vocabulary including: density, dissolve and viscous. Well done Year 5!

Year 6: Shakespeare Collage

Year 6: Gymnastics

Year 6 have been focusing on balancing, jumping and strength during gymnastics.

Year 6: Electricity

Year 6 were set a challenge to create an electronic matching game using their knowledge of circuits.

The Battle of Bosworth

In 1485, Henry Tudor and Richard III went to battle, and the result changed British history forever. The Battle of Bosworth marked the beginning of the Tudor period, and Year 4 have been reenacting the Battle to help them understand more about it… I can’t wait to read their Diary entries as Henry Tudor about […]