Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Forest School - Bread

  Thu 28 Nov 2024

  We have had a fabulous five weeks at forest school.  This week we made dough to cook on an open fire.  Some children twisted it around sticks and others cooked it on a large iron pan.  We thought about what it would have been like to be Stone Age and Iron Age people who had to use these methods to cook - we talked about the smoke in our eyes, the smell of our clothes and hair and how long these methods took. We also learnt how to sharpen our sticks carefully, and lots about fire safety.  Thank you Mrs. Tabassi-Gill and Mrs. Willmott for a fantastic time at forest school!

  

• Cave Paintings

  Tue 26 Nov 2024

  Year 3 have been exploring cave paintings.  They looked at some examples and thought about what they liked about them, then they practised recreating their own using earthy colours and charcoal.  Over a few weeks they have created their own rocks by using Modroc which dries hard. They then painted this surface grey to represent stone, before adding their final cave designs.  The children have really enjoyed this project and it was taught them a lot not only about using different media and working on different surfaces and textures, but also about the process - taking their time, working together and being creative!

  

• Year 1 - Partitioning

  Mon 18 Nov 2024

  'Year 1 where using their knowledge of partitioning 5 to solve this gardener's problem this week: The gardener has 5 seeds. He has pot A and pot B. He needs to plant more seeds in pot A than in pot B. How many seeds could be in pot A? How many seeds could not be in pot B? Can you solve the challenge?'

  

• Forest School Fun

  Tue 12 Nov 2024

  Forest school fun! - collaborating and working together to build dens, using the binoculars to identify different birds, collecting leaves to compost "it makes more soil for our plants to grow!" said Lily J excitedly and crushing chalk to make stone age paint!

  

• Year 6 - Remembrance Service

  Mon 11 Nov 2024

  Year 6 joined with other members of our community at the Remembrance Service today on Chapel Green.

  

• Year 3 Visit to Church

  Mon 04 Nov 2024

  On Monday 4th November, Year 3 met Father Irek and visited the church.  He told the children all about baptism, and talked about the importance of Holy Water which has been blessed and of light.  He showed the children the Paschal candle and talked about the detail of the symbols on it.  The children had lots of fun learning a little more about this important first sacrament.

  

• Year 3 Stone Age Day

  Thu 24 Oct 2024

  Year 3 had an exciting extravaganza yesterday when they travelled back in time for Stone Age Day.  They started their adventure solving crossword clues to reflect on their knowledge from their topic this term.  Then they explored Stone Age clothing and went gathering fruits.  We made Stone Age biscuits using honey, seeds and dried fruit and then we made a fruit stew to dunk them in, this involved good listening skills and cooperation to follow instructions and learning to use peelers and knives safely.  We also made clay pots and enjoyed listening to how Charolotte found her flint Stone Age knife at Birling Gap.  Curriculum days like these are lots of fun and full of enriching experiences - thank you to the plethora of parents who joined and supported us and helped the day run smoothly.

  

• Year 3 Computing

  Thu 17 Oct 2024

  Over the last few weeks the children have been using stop animation to create their own moving animations. This involves using the iPads on stands and taking different images. They have practiced using pictures, objects and then their own drawings. They really loved exploring the play back feature in different speeds! Great collaboration and discussions! 

  

• Year 3 - Head Circumferences

  Thu 17 Oct 2024

  This week, some children in year three have been thinking like scientists. They discussed a question they wanted to investigate, thought about variables they needed to keep the same and planned a fair test. “We can’t use Miss Cook’s head because she’s older, it’s not the same as us because she’s grown up!” The children made predictions “I think the boys will have bigger heads because men are usually taller!”, “I think that boys and girls will have the same sized heads because we’re all just children!”. Then they enjoyed using the tape measures to find their head circumference and Miss Cook then helped them to work out an average. We discovered that boys heads were a little bit bigger than girls heads because the average boy head circumference in year 3 was 55cm, compared to the average girls circumference was 54cm.  I wonder who has longer legs, boys or girls…? 

  

• Year 3 Stone Age Camps

  Fri 11 Oct 2024

  This week, in History, the children have been learning about Stone Age dwellings.  We talked about how the camps would move depending upon the season and the food available.  We loved watching this short video to find out a little more and to gain ideas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE6OeRZB_Wc

   

    We then worked with a partner to design our own winter camp and annotate it with our ideas.