This term, Year 5's science topic is 'Properties and Changes'. This week we used scientific vocabulary to make tactile observations of the properties of objects hidden in a touchy-feely bag. After the objects had been revealed, we built on our categorisation skills from last week...
This week, Year 4 used place value charts and counters to multiply by 10 and 100. We learnt that we needed to move our counters to the left to multiply. We worked with our partners to see what we noticed each time, and were able...
Year 3 had a fantastic trip this week to the Wallace Collection Museum. They looked at a variety of portraits and had the opportunity to create their own portraits too. [gallery ids="11353,11354,11355,11356"]...
Year 2 have been learning about money this week in maths. We have been looking at the value of coins and notes and discussed how me can find a total of an amount using the biggest value first. We know that money is used everyday! [gallery...
In writing, we are reading a book that talks about the evolution of moths. The pictures are beautiful and the descriptions are so vivid and rich. We discussed the life cycle of a moth and the children created their own diagrams, as well as this...
This week in reception, we have started to explore capacity and the concepts of full, empty and half full. We did experiments to see how much was needed in different size objects to be completely full and had lots of fun continuing the experiments independently...
Our learning in Nursery was linked to our topic 'winter' and our core text ‘The Snowy Day’ written by Ezra Jack Keats. The children created snips and cut shapes in a folded piece of paper to make a paper snowflake. [gallery ids="11338,11339"] ...
This term in writing, we are exploring a new key text: Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Today we began to unpick the text, looking specifically at the witches' spell. We will be using inspiration from the text to write poems to convey the dreaded spell! Our...
On Wednesday, Year 5 used place value charts and counters to represent multiplication calculations as repeated addition. Where necessary, we had to utilise regrouping and add placeholders. We will build on this during the half term when we learn to multiply 4-digit numbers using column...
Year 4 created timelines of time periods in Britain and of the Viking and Anglo-Saxon era to introduce our new History topic. We researched and presented key events from these eras. [gallery ids="11285,11286"] ...