We have been learning about a festival from another culture this week – the French festival of Le Carnaval (“the carnival”). It starts with Mardi Gras (which is French for “Fat Tuesday”), the French equivalent of Pancake Day. There are lots of parades and street performances and children get to Read more…
Class 9 and 10 had a wonderful time this afternoon building our own terrariums! We can’t wait to see what plants grow from the wild seeds we used! Everyone who brought a bottle is able to take theirs home and keep us updated with what appears!
In Class 9 this week, we have been thinking all about our mental health. We kicked off the week with an assembly all about Children’s Mental Health Week: Then in our RHE lessons, we looked at the different ways we can grow emotionally, including setting goals and trying new things. Read more…
To start our exploration of fractions this week, we looked at dividing one whole into tenths and hundredths. To support us with this, we used the base ten equipment to make different hundredths fractions and looked at how we could partition this then into tenths and hundredths. It was a Read more…
This week we celebrated Safer Internet Day and looked closely at gaming and how we can form respectful relationships with other gamers and keep ourselves safe and healthy while playing. We talked about our favourite games and why we liked to play them and then looked at different scenarios that Read more…
In Maths we have been learning about area. Area is “the size of the space a shape takes up.” We started by counting counters, squares and other objects to find the areas of pre drawn shapes but today we took our maths lesson outside and used PE cones to make Read more…
On Friday, Class 9 got the opportunity to vote which book they wanted to read next at the end of the day. They were shown the covers and blurbs of three books and were asked to come forward once they had decided and write their name next to their choice Read more…
This week, Class 9 were very excited to have their first session in the library. It was fun exploring all the books available and picking one to borrow for the week. There was great excitement when the boys found a ‘create your own story’ book about being England manager. This Read more…
This week, we had a visit from Rachel and Harold the Giraffe from SCARF. We talked about our bodies – even getting to see what they looked like inside – and how to keep ourselves healthy and happy. Then we too a virtual trip with Harold to Diversity World and Read more…
In our Science lesson this week, we’ve been looking at different animals and thinking about the similarities and differences between them. We then used the similarities to group our animals with other, similar animals. How do you think Lily, Aaliayah, Alfie and Evie Leigh have sorted the animals below: