This week we started our final literacy core text of the year, ‘Billy’s Bucket’. Billy wants only one thing for his birthday - a bucket. Inside it, he can see all kinds of magnificent sea creatures. Linked to the story, we designed our own buckets. We ...
This half-term, Year 5 will be studying Earth and Space as our science topic. We began by learning the order of the planets in our solar system, then we made posters about one of theses planets. Our posters had to contain following information, which we...
This week in Year 4, we have been thinking about how the character Jude in our writing text "Other words for home" May be feeling about leaving Syria and going to America. In trios year 4 practiced and acted out a conscious alley, this included...
This week in maths, Year 3 started their topic of Shape. To consolidate their learning, Year 3 went outside and practiced turning clockwise and anticlockwise, using key mathematical vocabulary. They then worked with their partners to create instructions to find treasure on a treasure map! [gallery ids="18402,18403,18404"]...
In Year 2 this week the children have been brainstorming adjectives and adverbs in preparation for their persuasive writing. Take a look...
This week in Maths, we have been looking at Place Value of numbers up to 100. We understand that two digit numbers are made of tens and ones. We partitioned these numbers into tens and ones. Then, we used greater than, equal to, or less...
This week in Reception we have been all about chicks! Our 10 eggs arrived on Monday. We learned about how the incubator kept them warm and moist and kept looking for the signs of hatching. By Tuesday we were seeing tiny pip holes and by the...
Linked to our topic country compassion, Nursery have been exploring amazing Africa. We have been exploring traditional instruments such as the Djembe Drum and created an observational drawing. Children looked closely at the shapes, patterns and colours of the drum and created an observational drawing. ...
In light of Refugee Week, Year 6 visited Hackney Museum to take part in a suitcase stories exhibition about individuals and their families who moved to Hackney to seek safety. The children used their prior knowledge to discuss their understanding of 'what a refugee is'...
This week, Year 5 wrote free-verse poems about a Maasai welcoming ceremony. We used fronted adverbials to describe when, where and how events took place, we used figurative language to add interest to our descriptions (including similes, metaphors, alliteration and onomatopoeia) and we used 'show...