Class 7 have been reading Kwame Alexander’s The Crossover in class and today we went to see him perform at The Children’s Bookshow at The Old Vic Theatre. He was so inspiring and funny – and reminded us to never give up on our dreams, even if we come across obstacles! All of the children […]
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Today, we worked with Tony to continue making our mechanisms. Using split pins to act as pivots, we assembled our levers and linkage to create our mechanism before attaching it to our backboard. Next, we used templates to draw our savannah animals before cutting them out and using hole punches to add eyes. On Thursday,
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Year 3 have been busy preparing for Tony, our DT specialist teacher, to come in to create linkage and lever mechanisms based on our Literacy book, One Day on Our Blue Planet … in the Savannah. In preparation for Tony’s visit, we researched what linkage and lever mechanisms are and designed our own, including animals
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Year 5 and 6 are in the process of creating a new Urban Garden after our previous garden was displayed at RA Young Artists’ Summer Show. Using recycled paper shreddings from the office, they are making urban animals from papier mâché. Can you tell which animal was created today? Watch this space to see which
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Louise’s literacy group have created an amazing story board in order to plan their news report for Arthur and the Golden Rope.
Louise’s literacy group’s superb story board! Read More »
Class 5 have been learning about grave goods of the Anglo-Saxons, where people would be buried with their treasured personal items such as jewellery. They have been observing this jewellery to create some fantastic drawings.
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Class 5 have been using their scientific knowledge of teeth to make close-up observational drawings of their own. They have been learning how to change the tone of colours to create a realistic painting of all the different shades that can be found inside the mouth.
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This week, we are researching what soil is and how it is made.
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Having consolidated our knowledge of the place value in 2- and 3-digit numbers, Year 3 are now moving towards being able to select the most efficient method for addition. To begin, we are investigating expanded column addition, and started by using dienes to understand what it looks like to exchange from one column to the
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Year 3 have been researching how fossils are made. To help us understand the process, we created our own fossils before explaining how they are formed using a storyboard. The children were very excited to become palaeontologists when they excavated their “fossil”, explaining that fossils can help us to learn about the past.
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