This week, the children in the 5/6 Classes have been exploring Macbeth through Drama. Last week, they learnt some interesting information about William Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre as an introduction. In our first lesson this week, the warm-ups involved the children acting in pairs and taking on particular roles. This proved highly entertaining but was … Read more
As we have been studying the life of Tudors in our history work, w visited Mill Green Museum. The two ladies who met us when we arrived were dressed in clothes of the Tudor times. We really enjoyed making butter and Tussie Mussies.We also had a competition about describing Tudor artefacts and each team scored … Read more
Class 5/6 A performed their assembly on Ancient Greece this morning. Written and produced entirely by themselves, we think they did a great job! Watch it here now.
To enrich their learning about Ancient Egypt Class 3 visited The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. First we were led to a huge granite statue of the Pharaoh Ramses where the children were given the opportunity to share what they already knew with an expert guide and to find out lots more! They were all were … Read more
Miss Eldridge set up an Easter egg hunt as part of our egg-citing writing day and let the children keep the Kinder Eggs they found. It was all part of an Easter project to decorate the eggs whilst raising some money for Compassion, the charity through which the school supports two children in Africa. The … Read more
The children have made cup torches, bottle torches and head torches. In order for the torches to light up they had to include a circuit, which they made using wires, batteries, a bulb and bulb holder. They also had to include a switch, which they made out of card, paper clips and paper fasteners. It … Read more
Learning to recognise different types of minibeasts and hunting them down to observe formed the basis of our work this week.Having learnt all about what makes a bug an insect, Monday afternoon saw the children ‘tree shaking’ around the field to find which minibeasts live in or on the trees. Having found and collected several … Read more
On our way to look for signs of spring on the field, we saw the digger preparing the ground for our new building. As we walked we saw lots of flowering plants. As it was a cold day we didn't see many flying insects.
Monday started with a quick chat with ‘talking partners’ and we soon discovered that between us we knew quite a lot about snails. A non-fiction Usborne text entitled ‘Snails’ added to the children’s knowledge and they all wrote some interesting facts for their writing in class. A story recall of ‘Odo the Snail’ on Tuesday … Read more
Worms in Class 3 As part of their science unit, Class 3 have been learning about human and animal skeletons. Today we were looking closely at worms and thinking about how they move and how their body is supported. Everyone enjoyed getting close to nature and the children drew some fantastic diagrams of what they observed. We … Read more
