This week for the start of our new topic of minibeasts, we have been learning all about bees! We were amazed to find out that they had 5 eyes and that they could smell and taste through their antennae. We have been using our fine motor skills to fill the cells on the flower like […]
Welcome back to the summer term! ☀️ This week we’re coding as part of our computing learning. We’ve learned about algorithms (instructions) and created our own patterns using ScratchJnr to move a sprite around the screen. We added backgrounds, created algorithms to move the sprite and used a start and stop tool too. We also edited […]
Reception have been finding out about the Easter story this week. We went on a treasure hunt to find clues to help us to retell the story. We collected the clues on our story sticks. We found grey felt for the donkey, feathers for the birds in the temple, a goblet for the last supper, […]
Year One visited Ford Green Hall this week to finish our topic about the Great Fire Of London 🔥 They met Samuel Pepys and helped to put out the fire! They also learned about food from 1666 and what it would have been to have been rich or poor. They also learned about how houses […]
Martin from Newcastle synagogue came to talk to the children about Judaism. He brought along lots of interesting artefacts, such as a menorah, tallit shawl and lots of mezuzahs. He also described what each of them was used for. The children were fascinated and asked lots of pertinent questions.
This week the whole school took part in an RE afternoon where the 4 main religions in our curriculum were studied. The children were most excited to learn that they were swapping classes to learn about The 5 Pillars of Islam, the Hindu festival of Holi, Easter and the Jewish festival of Passover.
Year Three learnt a lot about Hinduism and Islam! They visited Year 6 and Year 4 classrooms and impressed the class teachers with their learning attitude. Well done!
This week we having been reading the story of the Little Red Hen and talking about the animals on the farm. On PurpleMash, we have been pairing up the baby and adult animals and completing jigsaws based on images from the farm. We talked about the features of the farm and how it looked really […]
This week in our science learning, we finished our learning on Earth and Space by investigating how night and day occur at different times in different places on the Earth. We aimed to use key vocabulary such as axis and orbit within our explanations. We linked this closely to our geography learning where we have […]
Year Three were living and non-living things and they looked at how all were connected within our ecosystem. They were birds, insects, plants as well as water and soil. After reflection, they also realised that the connections can get unstable if one element disappears.