After spending this half term learning and practising various striking and fielding skills, the children have spent their last few lessons with incredible match play.
Year 4 treated their parents and Year 3 to a superb Doods concert today!
This week in Science, we explored how to group plants by focusing on succulents and non-succulents.
This week in Art, we explored a range of sketching techniques and experimented with different pencil grades to understand how they can be used to create texture, tone, and detail in our drawings.
This week, Discoverers and Voyagers have started learning about shapes in Maths. They started by investigating angles, which are linked to rotation.
In DT, the children in Voyagers and Discoverers have been looking at keyrings before designing and creating their very own sustainable keyring, which they should be extremely proud of.
Today we wrapped up our loom weaving project, marking the end of a creative and rewarding Art unit on textiles.
Voyagers and discoverers have been learning about the different states of matter (solid, liquid and gas) to start their Science learning during our Materials topic.
This week, the children delved into the colourful world of Wassily Kandinsky.
The children took part in a number of lessons and activities to help them learn more about and commemorate Earth Day.
This half term, Year 4 have thoroughly enjoyed their Forest school sessions and it has been a joy to see them demonstrate many of the Bishops' School Values.
Today, our Voyagers and Discoverers classes had the wonderful opportunity to take part in an immersive Egyptian outreach workshop.
This week in history, we have been diving into the fascinating world of Ancient Egypt by exploring the question: "How do pyramids help us know so much about life in Ancient Egypt?"
Voyagers and Discoverers have had many fabulous opportunities during British Science week to look at how sounds change and adapting to changes of sound.
This week marked the second Inter House event of the year.
Today, our Discoverers and Voyagers had a fantastic time applying different watercolour techniques during Art Morning!
Today, Voyagers and Discoverers took part in Safer Internet day by looking at the theme 'Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online'.
On Wednesday, our Year 3 children had a fantastic afternoon at Forest School, filled with adventure, creativity, and teamwork.
Voyagers and Discoverers had a challenge set to produce an interactive page with a complex moving mechanism.
This week in Art, the children explored the fascinating world of surrealism in preparation for creating their own surreal paintings inspired by the work of Salvador Dalí.
In Voyagers and Discoverers, we have started to learn about the linkages and levers that are used in moving picture books. We will eventually making our own moving picture page.
This term in RHE the focus is Health and well-being and we started of our learning by looking at Mental Health and the steps you can take to have positive mental health.
What a fantastic time we had at the Christmas craft morning in school!
Discoverers and Voyagers looked at a challenging topic, focusing on how and why food and minerals are distributed around the world.
Voyagers and Discoverers have been learning about the internet this half term. They have learnt so much about how the internet works and how to stay safe online. Well done!
Discoverers and Voyagers kicked off our first competitive Inter House event of the year.
Today at Bishop, we were extremely lucky to have professional gymnast, Courtney Tulloch visit our children.
This week, in DT, we learnt some useful cooking skills such as how to hold a knife correctly to chop vegetables and how to use a stove, before applying these skills to cook a tasty paella.
Bullying is not tolerated at Bishopsteignton Primary School. We frequently discuss friendships and how to deal with problems in RHE lessons but also get involved with Anti-Bullying Week.
WOW! We have been blown away by the ways that children have started their multiplication and division learning for this half term.
The children acted out their own cooking show based on their learning so far in DT and Literacy.
With a cross curriculum link between Art and History, the children designed and created their own cave drawings.
This week, to end their learning about Prehistoric Britain, the children explored a variety of sources of evidence linked to Iron Age religion
The children had a fantastic (and wet) morning taking part in activities that immersed them in the lives of people from the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age.
This week, we learned how beliefs were shown in the Bronze Age.
Voyagers and Discoverers read and explored several counting poems today. Aiming to inspire a love of poetry as part of National Poetry Day.
This half term, the Voyagers and Discoverers are developing their tennis skills and we have been very impressed with their ball and racket skills.
The children bounced their hearts out to raise money for FOBS.
The children thought very carefully about how their words can build others up or bring them down.
This week, we used some historical sources to build a picture of Early Stone Age life.
The children showed great problem solving skills and collaboration while trying to create a complete electrical circuit.
The children spent their first art lesson exploring drawing with different materials.
Today Year 3 had a lot of fun building their own 3-D shapes from a range of construction materials including straws, match sticks, and plasticine.
