Hot Cross Buns in Year 2

As part of our RE topic on the Easter story we made hot cross buns! It was great to see lots of great collaboration going on. We discussed why we eat them at Easter time at what each part of the bun represents.

Year 6: Operation

Year 6 were set the challenge of building their own version of the classic game: Operation! They worked together and used their knowledge of electronics to build the game.

Garbage Band

For our Science topic (sound) Year 4 have been investigating pitch and volume. Miss Higgitt set us a challenge to design and build an instrument out of junk that could play different pitches and different volumes. She was really impressed with our creativity, problem solving and collaboration. Here’s some of our incredible designs…

Reception Prepare for Blast Off!

Not long until we launch into our Space Party so we needed to learn some Russian to count up and down to 10!

DT Enrichment

Habitats in Year 2

Year 2 have created habitats and thought carefully about which animals live in them. If you want to take a look at our habitat gallery, pop into Year 2 to see the finished products!

Engineers of the future in Year 3

Not a day goes by without me being amazed by the creativity, ingenuity and downright brilliance of the children I am lucky enough to teach. We have come to the end of our chariot project and the amount of independent engineering and problem-solving that the children have done is staggering. From debating the relative merits […]

DT chariot design

We’re nearing the end of our learning about the Romans, but can’t do so without investigating their superb engineering skills. We are spending the next couple of weeks focusing on DT as we make models of Roman chariots. We watched a chariot race and identified what functions a chariot needed to perform. We then made […]

Wacky Racers

DT Enrichment have been designing and making spring-loaded ‘wacky racers’.

Year 3 make light work of… light!

As part of our work on light and reflection we found out about the spectrum of colour, made colour spinners and observed what happened when they were spun quickly – I think the looks on their faces show how well they observed what happened!