This week in their history, the Year Five children immersed themselves in their new topic of the Ancient Greeks! The children created their own accurate timelines in teams, ensuring that they considered the difference in time between each key event. By the end of the lesson, the children had gained an important understanding of the…
Year Six have settled well to the new academic year. They have all engaged well in the new English topic, Alma, and are showing great determination with conversion in maths. We have began to look at our first topic, The Victorians, and children have shown some great knowledge of this area already. It’s great to…
We have come to the end of our first full week back at school and the children have continued to amaze us with their hard work. This week they have recapped learning from previous years in English and started to learn about shapes and their properties in Maths. They have also started work linked to…
Year Three had a very creative day yesterday. They created Stone Age cave art using pigments and water to add colour, just like the original cave artists would have done. Then they used the technique of mono printing to add their design. We are so impressed with their final art work!
Year One have been finding out about Jan Griffier and studying his artwork closely. They have created their own masterpieces in the style of his painting created in 1675 – a few years after the Great Fire of London. They used different paints to create a wash, add a foreground of buildings and houses and…
Year One had to fight the Great Fire of Hillside this week! As part of their Science learning they posed the question, what would be the best material to make a bucket? They tested the materials, used super vocab, made expert predictions and then raced to put out the fire! They found the answer when…
As part of our learning in English about how to write instructions, we have had to follow them! We baked our own bread, talking about Thomas Farrinor and his bakery in London where the Great Fire began. We followed carefully, didn’t miss any steps and creating a cracking brown loaf and a focaccia too –…
As we are learning about the Maya civilisation in history, and the importance of the Gods within their culture, we decided to make the most of the dry weather and sit outside to create Maya Gods’ eyes. We used our creative talents to produce some beautiful patterns in our designs. What a lovely end to…
Year One are continuing to be fire of London experts this week, not only writing their own versions of Samuel Pepys diary, but also putting their musical talents to the test, learning the song ‘London’s Burning!’ 🔥 They added instruments, sang as a whole class and then split to sing in rounds – very impressive!…
Year Two have enjoyed a wonderful Number Day today. They started the day playing maths games with their friends. Afterwards, the children linked their history work based on Christopher Columbus by using directional language to plot Columbus’ journey to The Americas on a map. This afternoon, the children took part in a number hunt before…