History - Topic completed
We completed our History topic “How have explorers changed the world?” by creating coats of arms to reflect the stories of each explorer. We also looked at how exploration has changed over time.
Chopstick Challenge
Chopstick Challenge. Today we were challenged to pick up and eat various different foods using only chopsticks. Pieces of apple, prawn crackers and marshmallows weren’t too difficult to pick up however we did struggle with the jelly beans, fruit pastels and noodles!
John Taylor High School Maths Transition Part 2
Class Three had their second John Taylor High School Maths transition today. Mrs Barnes joined us again and led an excellent session on multiplying and dividing by negative numbers. The children demonstrated excellent growth and super perseverance during the session. They were extremely proud of…
Music - Using the Pentatonic Scale
Class 2 have been writing and performing their own music, using the pentatonic scale.
Art - Creating Papyrus Paper
A very messy afternoon. We have used strips of parcel paper with glue to create papyrus like paper ready for our Egyptian art next week.
D&T - Using Tinkercad
In D&T, after designing a sustainable product concept to fit a brief, the children in Class Three had to use CAD to create a 3D model using the programme, Tinkercad. They closely followed their designs and remembered to consider the client’s desires from the original brief.
Investigating our sense of smell
Investigating our sense of smell! Class 1 had 6 mystery items to identify. Most were able to sniff out the chocolate, some were more tricky!
Lego Challenge
In Wraparound today we were set the challenge of moving a ping pong ball from one table to another using only Lego. Our contraption had to be at least 60cm long and we weren’t allowed to touch the ball once it had been placed on the Lego. Well done to both teams who managed to complete the task…
Moving bee bot left and right
Over the past two weeks we have been looking at giving robots different commands. We previously looked at forwards and backwards before moving onto left and right this week. We carefully followed instructions and predicted which symbol our bee bot would land on.
Year 2 Maths
Year 2 are making the link between repeated addition and multiplication facts
English - Tim Peake Factfiles
In English we are creating factfiles about the astronaut Tim Peake. Today we used websites and non-fiction texts to research information about him.
Cupcakes!
Cupcakes! Today we turned our hands to some baking and made some delicious cupcakes.
