In DT lessons in Year 2 and Year 6, the children have taken part in a vehicles project funded by the Reece Foundation and Primary Engineers. The children designed, created and tested their vehicles in school. Some of the children attended a celebration event at the...
A huge thank you to our volunteers, Mr and Mrs Allchin, who have been sprucing up our eco garden, ensuring all weeds are removed and planting a range of new bulbs and plants. The bulbs are beginning to sprout, as we approach the spring and the children can't wait to...
We joined the assembly completing challenges on how to stay safe and then went outside and played a game thinking about our reactions and emotions in different scenarios.
In Computing, we have been writing instructions for the Beebots and predicting the direction they will travel in. We have been practising debugging algorithms to get our robot to travel to chosen destinations on a map.
In Maths, we made our own clocks help us to tell the time to the nearest five minutes. We have used lots of key vocabulary in our lessons such as minute hand, hour hand, clockwise, minutes past and minutes to.
In English, we have been using digital literacy to inspire us to write creative recounts of Lily and the Snowman. We built our own snowmen and made shadow puppets to immerse ourselves into the story. We have also worked hard to include key features in our writing such...
In Geography, we are learning about Australia and how it is different to where we live. We started the unit by using atlases to identify the continents and oceans of the world. We then discussed how Australia is both a continent and a country. We are looking forward...
Today we investigated how vehicles move. We found out that wheels are attached to vehicles by axles. We worked hard to attach fixed axles and rotating axles to different chassis and decided which we preferred and were more secure. We also enjoyed testing them to see...
In Science we have been investigating ways to keep ourselves clean. We carried out an experiment using different coloured glitter and shook hands with our partners to see how easily germs can spread from one person to another. We then tested different ways of washing...
We have really enjoyed learning about digital photography in our Computing lessons. We have practised taking photographs in landscape and portrait formats, using framing to ensure our photographs were focused and effective. We also practised editing our photos by...
