Month: June 2020
Congratulations to Mr Gallagher!
After passing his initial teacher training, Mr Gallagher has now completed further university studies and has heard today that he can now add the letters PGCE after his name… Congrats!
Year 4
In Science this week, Year 4 decorated pebbles by turning them into different creatures! Here are some of their clever pebble paintings! In English, Year 4 wrote poems to describe the damage plastic is having on our oceans.
Year 5
Year 5 have been learning about their gardens in science. Today they made mini ponds to encourage more wildlife. The ponds have stones in them so that insects can stand and drink., and have been camouflaged to make them attractive to wild life.
Year 8 Enrichment
Year 8 have been transforming everyday objects into creative shadow drawings as part of their Enrichment this week. We have had some very creative drawings come in, here are a few!
Year 3
Year 3 have been looking at life in the trenches this week in English, which is linked to ‘The Butterfly Lion’ by Michael Morpugo. Adi has done a fantastic diary entry describing what life was like in the trenches. Well done Adi!
Year 2
This week Sandro did a great job of experimenting. The tasks involved lighting a match in a bottle. He then got a balloon and an egg to drop into the bottle. We learnt how this happens because of the change in air pressure that occurs when the small fire is using up oxygen. On National…
Forest School Fun & Science Experiments
Fleur’s Forest school activity this week was ‘wonderful weaving’. Here she is hard at work! Rian is shown here conducting a Science investigation; he was lowering the air pressure in a jar to get the balloon to go into the jar and then raising the air pressure using the straw to get the balloon out.
Touch Typing
Year 1 used a touch typing programme this week in IT lessons on iPads in our classroom bubbles. Areen tried hard to use the correct finger on the right key.
Blue Peter Badge
Ibby sent his blue whale mini project to Blue Peter and gained a green Blue Peter badge!
Reception
The children have been learning all about summer flowers this week and picked some to make their own bracelets and bookmarks. Rupert was working extremely hard learning how to correctly write number 18. Reception have also been doing their own impression of Van Gogh drawings! Today is Clashing Clothes Friday so the children and staff…