In RE, the boys and girls have been learning about the importance of Moses to people of the Jewish faith. They enjoyed listening to the story before ordering the events and verbally retelling it to their partners. The children were all very curious and asked some great questions along the way. They
This week in Reception, we have been learning about the artist, Vincent Van Gough. The children enjoyed listening to a variety of stories about Vincent Van Gough’s work, including: Camille and the Sunflowers; Katie and the Sunflowers and Katie and the Starry Night. We also went on a virtual tour
In Science this half term, the children have learnt about the human digestive system. They have followed the journey of the food they eat from its beginnings in their mouth, to the very end, and everything in between! The class enjoyed a hands-on demonstration of how food travels to the stomach, how
In Year 2, we have been learning all about plants. To find out what seeds need to grow, we decided to do an experiment. We planted lots of seeds and decided to put them in different conditions to see which grew the best. The different conditions were: Sunlight and water, Sunlight but no water, Water
Year One have been thoroughly enjoying our new topic in computing – animation. The children have been using a programme called Scratch. So far they have learnt to change the background, change the sprite (character) and can even input an algorithm to move two sprites at a time. They are now re
Year 6 have thoroughly enjoyed their week designing and making a Roman chariot. They were given a design brief to create an authentic looking Roman chariot that could move and hold cubes. Despite some trepidation from the teachers about what might happen to the new tables, the children were let loos
During Computing lessons this half term, the children in Year 5 have been focussing on programming, primarily using Scratch to help them develop their coding skills. The children were given a brief: design an interactive quiz using the program. They conducted thorough research into their chosen topi
Year One have been extremely busy this week learning to count all the way up to 50. The children enjoyed counting forwards and backwards and also learnt how to write the numbers down in digit form. During the week, the children were able to use counting equipment such as counters and tens and ones t
This week in Reception we have been exploring healthy eating and what it means to be healthy. The children talked about how we can be healthy by drinking water, eating less sugary foods and keeping our bodies healthy through exercise. We have read the story ‘The Enormous Turnip’ as our focused t
Over this half term in Computing, Year 4 have been using the application FMSLogo to program a screen turtle to draw simple shapes and letters. We have been creating snippets of code and then will be putting them together to form longer algorithms. Of course at first it went wrong and the turtle wo
