This week was our History Fair- the theme was important buildings and monuments. The children across the school worked extremely hard to create their projects and it was heart-warming to see such a big turn out. Thank you to everyone who attended and took part, our projects ranged from local buildings and monuments, such as Coventry Cathedral, Bagot’s Castle and
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Year 3 and 4 had a visit from Reverend John this morning to learn all about the Harvest Festival. They enjoyed singing harvest related songs and learning all about why Christians celebrate the festival. Whilst Reverend John was here, one of our year 3 children proudly showed him her model of the cathedral, which will be on display during the
Whilst eating our lunches we enjoyed looking through our learning journals. Make sure you have a look at them during Parents’ Evening!
At the start of our maths lesson, we enjoyed practising our times tables on the Ipads. We used the website ‘Blooket’ and worked in teams, it was lots of fun!
Year three enjoyed a trip to Ryton Pools this Tuesday as part of their Stone Age topic. They travelled back in time by building shelters, lighting fires, handling ancient artefacts, and foraging for natural resources for paint to draw messages.
3SE enjoyed a trip to Ryton Pools on Monday as part of their history unit. During the day children learnt about how the local landscape had changed since the Stone Age, were able to handle artefacts dating back 500,000 years and travelled back in time by building shelters and lighting fires.
Year 3 have had a great day out at the Lunt Roman Fort. We enjoyed learning all about the fort and were able to handle replica artefacts. We also learnt about life as a Roman soldier and took part in a number of role play activities to cement this knowledge.
Year 3 were fortunate enough to have Dr Watson visit us this morning to lead a science workshop which focused on forces. She showed us a variety of experiments involving friction, contact and non contact forces and used a range of equipment. The children also enjoyed being scientists and joining in or conducting their own experiments. They particularly enjoyed using
Year 3 have been learning all about collective nouns. Here they are enjoying playing a game called ‘Don’t tell me’ in which they were given a top secret collective noun. They had to find a matching partner with the same collective noun, but without telling them exactly. They used describing skills such as, ‘It is the collective noun for a
This morning our KS2 History Hero winners got to visit Charterhouse. They enjoyed a tour of the house and grounds and learnt a lot about the rich history of this local attraction. A big thank you to Jennie for inviting us and for giving up her time to talk to us.