Mon monstre a …

My monster has … We’ve been describing our own monster creations in French, remembering that numbers come before the noun but colours come after! Having taught this class French last year, it’s really great to see how they are building on this in Year 4 and starting to talk and write confidently in French.

KS2 French

Now that we have developed our vocabulary, we are starting to use it in sentences. First of all, we read a description of two monsters, to see if we could translate it using the vocabulary we were familiar with. Then we applied this to our own sentences, thinking of numbers and descriptions of monster body […]

Shark tracking in LKS2

We are coming to the end of our Blue Abyss topic, which has been an amazing half-term’s worth of learning for adults and children alike. We investigated Marine Biology today and the children were amazed to find that, should this be your chosen career, you can spend your time studying the incredible diversity of ocean […]

Switching on the Science in LKS2

Years 3 & 4 investigated switches in science this week. Using our knowledge of circuits, we discussed what a switch does, how it works and where it can be positioned within a circuit. We then had a lot of fun experimenting with different switches and even managed to make a switch out of a paper […]

Oil spill artwork in LKS2

Continuing to use our Geography work as a stimulus, LKS2 produced some beautiful marbling this afternoon, using water and oil-based marbling inks. We dropped the marbling inks onto the water than moved them around on the surface before carefully laying our watercolour paper on top, submerging it and removing it before leaving it to dry. […]

Learning about baptism in LKS2

LKS2 have continued their learning about Christianity by looking at the importance of baptism in the Christian faith. We found out that Jesus himself was baptised and the way that baptism can welcome people into the church family and give them the opportunity to have their sins forgiven and to start afresh. We then had […]

Threats to our oceans and how we can help

We’ve spent this week looking at the threats posed to our oceans by pollution, overfishing, careless tourism and global warming. We then focused on the positives by talking about what the problems are and what we can do to help.

Printing coral reefs in LKS2

We’ve had such a creative afternoon in LKS2 producing abstract artwork representing coral reefs. In response to our Geography work on coral bleaching, we have used our knowledge of tints and shades and collaborated in order to print out own coral reefs where some of our coral is brightly coloured (healthy) some is paler (stressed) […]

Coral bleaching Art project in LKS2

We are linking our Art and Geography work in order to develop some pieces based on coral bleaching. We used our knowledge of tints and a new medium – poster paint – to demonstrate how coral might look as it goes from healthy to stressed to bleached. We then drew a template of a piece […]

How does a circuit work? LKS2 investigate

Last week we made bulbs light, motors turn and buzzers buzz, but WHY and HOW are these things happening? This week we took our investigation further and learned about the FLOW of electricity around a CIRCUIT and the presence of ELECTRONS in our circuits. We even made a human representation of a circuit to demonstrate […]