4B have been exploring The Adventures of Isabel by American poet Ogden Nash. We discussed the adventure she goes on, her absurd and hilarious encounters, the author’s brilliant use of rhyming couplets and the beautiful language in the poem. When we’d had our fill of...
During RE this term we have been learning about what Christmas means to Christians. We have looked in depth at the Christmas Story and compared different versions from the Bible and how these may contrast to the popular Nativity story . At the end of term we found...
This half term we have been programming floor robots to move forwards and backwards and turn left and right. Today, we used our skills to direct the robots around a map to our chosen finishing point. We planned our routes first and then tested them out. We debugged...
In History this half term, we have been enjoying learning about the changes in jobs and technology over the last 60 years. We asked our family members questions about the changes that they have experienced in their lifetime and found out lots of information that we...
Today we had a virtual museum experience with the Durham Museum. The children learned how to investigate artefacts, write hieroglyphics and they saw a real live mummy. I was really impressed with the knowledge the children were able to show for our expert too. Well...
The children have been learning copious amount of skills in their DT lessons this half term. They have designed and drawn their eye of Horus , printed their eye, and then with a splash of colour they brought them to life with sewing running, back and cross stitch....
The children were learning how to ask scientific questions, predict outcomes and record tables of data about their fair test today. They asked the question ‘which material muffles sound the best?’
Today we explored our first school learning the boundaries, rules and expectations to keep us safe.
Today, we have been making Christmas cookies. We had to melt the chocolate really sensibly and then decorated our cookies.
4B have been learning about area this week. We discovered that area is the amount of space that is taken up by a 2D shape. To help understand this, the children explored building shapes using non-standard measures (sticky notes, maths books, square cards) to build...
