The day began with a whole school assembly where we found out lots of information about Lowry’s life. Key Stage One stayed in the Hall for the rest of the morning learning how to sketch people and buildings in Lowry’s style. Then in the afternoon we learned how to paint our sketches using only white, … Read more
The children listened brilliantly to the assembly and responded really well to both the sketching and the painting sessions which followed.Although the colour mixing was quite challenging everybody tried their best and achieved some interesting results.
Our theme of bears continued from last week with all children bringing their teddy to school on Monday. The children used their bears in maths to do some measuring. The teddies were measured with strips of paper to find out which teddy was the tallest. The pieces of paper were put in length order and … Read more
We brought our scooters to school and worked on the playground.We found that we had to push our foot on the ground to make our scooter move forward.
In RE, we have been looking at the story of Esther, and also how the Jewish religion celebrates this with the festival of Purim. As part of the festival, some Jews make Hamantaschen which are a type of fruit filled ‘biscuit’. The word Hamantaschen is a Yiddish word which means ‘Haman’s pockets’.
The pupils in Class 5/6M are currently looking at how light travels and how we see things as part of their Science work. They have been doing a number of different experiments showing how light travels in a straight line and also how it is reflected off shiny surfaces. One of the most interesting experiments, … Read more
As part of the Hitchin Rugby Club community programme, we have been given some tag rugby coaching sessions. The two 5/6 classes were due to receive four sessions each, but because of the snow it has been reduced slightly! We still hope to be able to get two more sessions in before half term. Adam, … Read more
Over the past two weeks, Class 3/4 has been reading the first book in The Spiderwick Chronicles Series. Everyone has really enjoyed the book and meeting the main characters; Mallory, Jared and Simon, and were disappointed when it ended. For the first time, the class put together their own freeze frames as part of some … Read more
As part of the Hitchin Rugby Club community programme, we have been given some tag rugby coaching sessions. The two 5/6 classes were due to receive four sessions each, but because of the snow it has been reduced slightly. Adam, our coach, can be seen in these photographs reminding the pupils about the basics. It … Read more
Class 3/4s Geography topic is ‘The Rainforests’ and this week we were looking at what food and medecines orginally came from the rainforests. The children were surprised to find that so much of what is in their kitchen cupboards orginally came from tropical areas. Sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, coconut, oranges as well as the bamboo basket … Read more
