Class 2 were lucky enough to have a lovely sunny day for their walk to St Mary’s Church today. We all enjoyed the fresh air, not to mention the biscuit when we arrived! Reverend Roden was there to meet us and told the children all about the church. At first the children had a look … Read more
What is a toy museum and how does it work? This was our Monday morning question. Using everybody’s ideas we found some answers and then had a ‘virtual tour’ of the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood. With this experience to help us, the children put on their curator badges and started to sort the piles … Read more
Class 5/6A looked at this picture for their morning work and wrote down how they might feel if they were in the picture. The waves are towering over my head as I feel the rumbling of the ground beneath my feet. My body is numb with excitement, but my heart beats with fear. The waves … Read more
Today Class 3/4 made topographical models of Antarctica using a contour map to help them. They discovered that Antarctica, which is a landmass, is quite mountainous with the steepest inclines at the edges of the land. It also has a number of peaks in its centre which surround the South Pole, making it had to … Read more
In science we found that we push our foot on the ground to make our scooters move forward.We went faster and further down a slope.
Monday morning and there were lots of furry visitors to the reception class. The children welcomed their teddy bears into school on Monday as we embarked on a day of ‘bear centred’ activity. The teddy bears were measured with strips of border tape to find out which one was the tallest and who had the … Read more
Mr Catley, Noah and Mathilda Starts Grandad, came to our history lesson to talk about his life as a child. There were no plastic toys, only wooden and metal.
Can you drum to the beat of wild animals and dinner? Class 3/4 can and were impressive in just their second djembe drumming session. Led by specialist drumming teacher, Mr White, the children were able to keep a steady pulse and follow different drumming rhythms. The class were also able to play in two halves … Read more
Class 3/4 is reading the Spiderwick Chronicles and today acted out freeze frames. Mallory, Jared and Simon are tentatively entering the kitchen, having heard noises coming from it. Earlier Jared sprinkled flour on the floor to try and prove the boggart’s existence, but when they enter, the kitchen has been trashed! (It’s written in American … Read more
With the start of the ‘Big Schools’ Birdwatch’ the children have been learning about different birds that we hope to see when the binoculars come out and we go bird watching next week. They made bird cakes to encourage birds onto our school site. We made the ‘dark den’ into a bird hide to conceal … Read more
