On Friday we had amazing fun using Atlases to identify the main rivers across the UK. They were a little tricky to identify, however, with determination and perseverance we succeeded well. Working with a friend was also a good strategy. 🙂

Friday 20th March - Red Nose Day. Today in Ocean class we dressed in red and learnt about the Charity Comic Relief. We heard about all the good causes the money helps with not only in the UK but across the world. It all began 40 years ago!! We listened to Sir Lenny...

In our PSHE sessions we have been learning all about First Aid and what to do in a variety of situations. This afternoon we pretended we had injuries to our arms and bandaged each other inline with first aid procedures. It was great fun and quite a bit harder than it...

After sketching and resketching our landscape images, today we have added colour. We attempted to create the foreground, middle ground and back depth and used our previous skills of shade to alter our paint tones. We are very pleased we our results.

Today we have come to school dressed in book character costumes. We have a great range from minions, Matilda, Luigi and Mario to the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. We have read an exert from Roald Dahl's biography, listened to an audio book and designed our...

This week in school we have been considering how we belong and the impact it can have on our mental health and well-being. We had an assembly on Monday and have continued to look at mental health through the week in our PSHE lessons. We have learnt the importance of...

This afternoon children In Ocean class joined an online lesson by WWF with guest speaker Steve Backshall to learn more information about the Arctic and Antarctic, the animal inhabitants and the water life. The lesson lasted 45 minutes and we thoroughly enjoyed it....

Year 3 and 4 had a visit from Andy who works for Severn Trent water. He came to discuss water waste and how we can make a difference to save water. It was very interesting and then we had an activity to complete. Andy gave us a range of 'families' who live on water...

We have been completing work around the story of the Iron Man by Ted Hughes. We have created a specific word dictionary of words only associated with the story and also created our own little paper 3D iron man. He was a little tricky to do but through perseverance and...

In Ocean class this week we have learnt about tectonic plates and how volcanoes are formed over many years. We were surprised to find out that volcanoes still grow year on year and how the landscape changes with each eruption. We looked inside a model volcano to...

In Science our topic this half term is the human digestive system. We have looked in detail at the parts of our digestive system and the journey our food goes to pass through it. We then created our own 'human' and added on the digestive system. As you can see we...

Unfortunately due to the icy conditions we had to complete our Forest school activity in the classroom. We had great fun making bird feeders.

If you have been following our recent posts, you will be aware that we have been completing circuits in Science and understanding the component parts in a torch. Last week we designed a torch and this week we have tried to create our design. We spent the lesson...

This week we have been looking at the individual parts of a torch and how they work. We have looked at the reasons why specific materials are selected when constructing a torch. We were all surprised at home many components there were in one simple torch.

Friday 17th October - Wear it red - Stop Racism. Today we all wore red to raise awareness and to stop racism. In Ocean class we visited the Stop Racism website and followed their assembly. We learnt that racism is treating others differently this could be due to skin...