On Monday, Mr Hammond came into school to talk to us about evacuation during WW1. As a History teacher, he was able to tell us lots of facts about why this was necessary during WW1.
In Science, we have been exploring light and shadows.
Thank you very much for coming to our Curriculum Celebration! We hope you enjoyed it!
Thank you to the Year 3 parents for coming to see Year 3's violin concert!
Here is a photo of Voyagers making their cakes in small groups!
We have been finding out about life in the trenches and food rations during WW1.
In Science, we are now learning about Light!
This week, we have carried out an investigation to help us understand that we need light in order to see.
Children in Year 3 have been working hard to prepare for their upcoming violin concert. They look forward to playing for you next Thursday!
This week in our Topic lessons, we enjoyed writing letters home from the perspective of a soldier during WW1.
We have been thinking about respect during this years Anti-Bullying Week. We talked about how we show respect and why this is important.
To support Children in Need, we came to school dress up in spots.
We also brought in our teddies!
We have been thinking about Remembrance Day in Year 3/4 today.
Each child decorated several poppies using paint, pens, wool, sponges and glitter to create a collabrative piece of art work that is now displayed in our library.
Yesterday, a Community Police Officer came into school to talk to Year 3/4 about how to stay safe this Halloween. She shared this poster with us and we discussed how to be respectful of others and keep ourselves safe.
Our Maya masks are now finished! Here is Discoverers' amazing display...
Our Maya masks are now finished! This is Voyagers lovely display...
Voyagers and Discoverers have visited our school library to celebrate Libraries Week!
"It's better to read than to use electronics because you can learn more. So get off the computer and start flipping pages"-Bryony
Discoverers have been learning about why people wore masks during the Maya period.
Have you heard about our KS2 Times Tables Rock Stars competition?
This week we have enjoyed our new unit - Additive Reasoning. We started by partitioning numbers and representing this on a place value chart.
We have now finished out myths based on the Maya Creation Story.
On Monday, we had a visit from the Living History Group who talked to us about what life was like in World War 1 for the soldiers in the trenches. We asked lots of questions and found out lots about the equipment and weapons used.
In Science, Year 3/4 have been constructing simple electrical circuits as well as naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs and switches.
Children in Year 4 attended a Tag Rugby Festival this week at TCS. They played new games, developed skills and learnt more about Tag Rugby.
Here we are acting out the Maya Creation Story!
We have been very busy learning our class charters, new routines and starting new learning!
In Maths we have been thinking about place value, adding and subtracting 10/100 and 1000 as well as exploring representations of 3 and 4 digit numbers.
