Last week, Year 4 started our brand new design and technology topic, Functional and Fancy Fabrics! We started the topic by researching an artist and designer, William Morris. We have started to think about the designs we could use for our own printing by testing out the designs in our artbook. We developed our skills by testing how much ink
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The nursery children have had lots of fun over the last few weeks practising their ball skills including sending and receiving (throwing and catching), target practice and dribbling!
The nursery children have had lots of fun over the last few weeks practising their ball skills including sending and receiving (throwing and catching), target practice and dribbling!
Year 3 have been investigating magnets as part of our Science work this term. We looked carefully at the different poles of the magnets and how the magnetic forces are created. We found out about magnetic attraction and repulsion and what happens to the magnets in each case. We also experimented with magnets of different shapes and sizes including horseshoe,
2C have been learning how to saw and join lengths of wood to make a right angled join. They did this brilliantly and then strengthened it by adding a cardboard corner. We will be making the real thing in the next few weeks!
The children raised lots of money (£28 in total) for Comic Relief while having lots of fun! We dressed up and decorated some biscuits! Yummy!
The children raised lots of money (£28 in total) for Comic Relief while having lots of fun! We dressed up and decorated some biscuits! Yummy!
This week has been quite ‘bean’ heavy! The children enjoyed reading and discussing ‘Jasper’s Beanstalk’ and conducting a ‘bean experiment’ (more to come!) They also loved developing their gross motor skills during the ‘bean game’. On Monday, they explored Giuseppe Acrimboldo’s famous fruit related art and created their own fruit art, though more observational. We talked about the parts of
This week the Nursery children have continued finding out about dinosaurs. We looked at some non fiction books and learned some interesting facts about dinosaurs and even learned some new names like the Argentinosaurus! In Maths the children discovered some dinosaur bones in the sand and we talked about the different lengths of them, thinking about ‘long’ and ‘short’. We
This week the Nursery children have continued finding out about dinosaurs. We looked at some non fiction books and learned some interesting facts about dinosaurs and even learned some new names like the Argentinosaurus! In Maths the children discovered some dinosaur bones in the sand and we talked about the different lengths of them, thinking about ‘long’ and ‘short’. We