Shadow puppets
Today we used an opaque material to create shadow puppets. We talked a lot about the science behind this, such as how is a shadow formed? How can we change the length of our shadow? How does the angle of the torch affect the shadow created? The childrens short puppet shows were also very…
Newsreaders
Next week Class 3 will be writing their own Newspaper reports from 1922, detailing when Howard Carter discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamun. To help them get into character today, they read current newspaper reports, spotting features they will need to include with their report, such as starting…
Wear Yellow day
Thank you for your contributions to ‘Wear Yellow day’ to raise awareness around Mental Health struggles. We have taken part in some activities to give us the opportunity to talk about our worries through mindfulness colouring, prayers and a greater understanding of current problems in the…
Egyptian Workshop
St Mary’s came to join us for an Egyptian workshop today with Steve, the owner of Humph’s Histories. We have had a fantastic day, starting with an overview of the Egyptians, followed by Egyptian quizzes and Maths - Egyptian style, measuring with with a cubit. We also had a competition with…
Happy Harvest!
Class 3 did a super job sharing their poem during our Harvest service this afternoon. Thank you families as well, for the generous donations of food to be given to those in need.
Maths games
We have enjoyed some practical activities to support our Maths this week. The Y4 children worked in pairs and had to take a card each from the pile and work out the answer (4 digit addition and subtraction). The winner was the person with the largest answer. The Y3 children also worked in pairs,…
Football skills
During our PE sessions we have been practising accurate passing of the football and being able to quickly stop the ball. We then had a go at a penalty shoot out.
MacMillan coffee and cake morning
The children enjoyed buying some cakes and cookies to raise money for charity this morning. Thank you for your donations parents, we will count up and let you know the total amount raised very soon.
Hieroglyphics
Today we stained paper with tea bags and scrunched the edges to make it look like papyrus paper. We then learnt about how Ancient Egyptians communicated around 4000 years ago and used hieroglyphics to write our names and a secret message on our paper.
Outdoor ordering!
Today in Maths we were comparing numbers (up to 1000 for Y3 and up to 10,000 for Y4). We had different activities to complete in small groups such as ordering numbers in either ascending or descending order, finding the missing digits to make the number sentence correct and using digit cards to…
A visit from Pep the Poet
Pep the Poet visited us today and we had lots of fun acting out some of his poems. He taught us how to use our voices to add expression to make the poems more exciting for the listener.