In history this week, Year 3 have been looking at the importance of the River Nile in Ancient Egypt. They used atlases to locate the River Nile and conducted research to find out why it was important for trade, farming and transport. [gallery ids="12446,12447,12448,12449,12450"]...
This week, Year 2 visited St Paul’s Cathedral. They explored the religious symbolism of the Cathedral’s artefacts and art. [gallery ids="12522,12523,12524"]...
Year 1 visited Hackney School of Food this week and learnt how to make their own scones and salad. They looked at where food comes from and the different skills needed to prepare and cook a meal safely. [gallery ids="12457,12458,12459,12460,12461,12462,12463,12464,12465,12466"]...
This week in Nursery, children created a painting of a ‘hog’ by using handprints and paintbrushes. We chose to create a ‘hog’ as it is one of the characters from our core text ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ by Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks. We explored...
This week, Year 6 have been learning about ways to keep themselves healthy, in both science and PSHE lessons. The children explored the 5 sections of an 'eat well' plate and thought carefully about how their diet is reflected in each food group. They then went...
In writing, Year 5 wrote a recount based on our key text: Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. We included five senses description to engage the reader, empty words to build tension, and our grammar focus was the use fronted adverbials. Below...
This week, Year 4 has been using Turtle Academy to learn how to code. We have been creating different algorithms for our turtle to go in different directions, and this week we learnt how to repeat commands to make a square. We practiced changing the...
This week, Year 3 identified different jobs in Ancient Egypt. They used primary and secondary sources to identify what jobs people had in Ancient Egypt and how they knew this by looking at sources of evidence. Some of the jobs they found out were Pharaohs,...
Year 2 had an amazing time being super scientists this week. We are looking at the the life cycle of a butterfly for our extended enquiry and we closely observed the features of a caterpillar. We noticed how the caterpillar’s skin had started shedding as...
In science this week, Year one have been learning all about the five senses. We used our sense of smell and taste to classify different foods into taste categories. [gallery ids="12280,12281,12282,12283,12284,12285,12286,12287,12288,12289,12290"]...