This week, Year 6 began to explore their new science unit: Electricity. They will be building knowledge across the half term to answer the key question: Why are wires so important in a circuit? As an opportunity to recap on prior learning on electricity, the children began by...
In science, Year 5 are learning about how living things reproduce and carried out a dissection of a flower to identify its reproductive organs. We utilised our scientific skills of observation and categorising to sort the parts of the flower. We are now able to...
In Year 4 this week, we completed our self portraits in the style of Picasso. We researched the cubism movement and how it compares to other movements before analysing how Picasso made his portraits and self portraits look abstract. Using this as inspiration, we used...
This week, Year 3 went on a learning walk around their local area to identify rocks and their uses. We found many rocks in parks and on pavements. We also saw that rocks were used for gravestones, such as granite and limestone. We know that...
Year 2 learned a lot about the Great Fire Of London at their trip to Temple Bar. We discovered that the original Temple Bar Gate was lucky enough to escape damage during the Great Fire of London however as they were rebuilding the city, it...
This week in Year 1 we are working hard on our accurate counting skills. We have been counting up to 20 and practising our number formation, as well as building number towers! We challenged ourselves to build towers of the right size and had to count...
This week in art, Year 6 have been working incredibly hard on creating self-portraits, inspired by the works of Austrian painter, Gustav Klimt. The children began by developing their art history knowledge and spent some time researching our key artist and exploring the art movement that he was part...
Year 5 have had a brilliant first week back to school! We have had fun painting pop art self-portraits inspired by Andy Warhol and have started a variety of other topics too. [gallery ids="14488,14487,14485,14486,14484"] In maths, we used dienes and place value counters to represent numbers up...
For science this week, year 4 have been learning all about the digestive system. We have looked at what types of teeth humans have and what their functions are. We even became dentists and investigated what types of teeth our partner has. [gallery ids="14510,14511,14512,14513,14514,14515,14516,14517,14518,14519,14520,14521"]...
Year 3 has had a great first week back at school. They are all settled and are really enjoying all their learning. To consolidate their understanding of place value in maths, Year 3 represented numbers to 100 using dienes and drawing their representations on their...