11
Oct
Author: Rebecca Mackenzie
11
Oct
Making Tomato Soup in Gardening Club
This week, Gardening Club morphed into Cookery Club! To build on our work about harvest, this week our theme was “From plant to plate”. We discussed how much of what we eat originated in the ground, growing as plants, bearing fruits and vegetables. We made...
11
Oct
Year 2 Visit the Horniman Museum
As part of our science learning, Year 2 ventured to South London to visit the Horniman Museum. We had an amazing day learning about animals and their habitats. We also got to visit the Octonauts' underwater adventure, look closely at some ocean habitats and pretend...
08
Oct
Year 1 Represent and Compare Numbers on a Tens Frame
This week in Maths, the children reviewed how to represent numbers on a tens frame using counters. We then extended this learning to comparing two numbers using tens frames. Students were introduced to the greater than / less than alligator and they did great learning...
08
Oct
Year 3 Learn About The Creation Story
In Year 3 we have been learning about the creation story and Adam and Eve. We wrote questions that we would ask Adam and Eve after they left the garden of Eden for disobeying God....
08
Oct
Year 4 Science: Investigating Temperature Around the School
In Science, the children explored temperature and learned how environmental factors cause it to change. Becoming temperature detectives, they took wall-mounted and portable thermometers into various locations across the school site—checking the warm classroom, the lunch hall, near large windows, and outside by the MUGA....
08
Oct
Year 4 Maths: Exploring Perimeter with Thread
This week in Maths, the children took a hands-on approach to investigating perimeter! Using bright orange and brown thread, they carefully traced around the edges of various 2D shapes—including circles, hexagons and squares—to measure their outer boundaries. By straightening out their strings alongside rulers and...
08
Oct
Year 5 Science: Exploring Friction!
This week in Science, Year 5 have been investigating friction through a hands-on experiment! The children used a Newton meter to pull a shoe across different surfaces, measuring the force needed to move it. They compared their results to find out which surface created the most friction and discussed why some surfaces...
08
Oct
Year 6 Use Cuisinaire to Solve Mathematical Problems
This week in Maths, Year 6 have been developing their understanding of efficient methods for solving mathematical problems. The children have been exploring a range of multiplicative and additive structures, using Cuisenaire rods to represent problems and identify missing parts. They have been encouraged to explain...
03
Oct
The Winner of this Year’s Writing Competition Shares her Book!
This week in Celebration Assembly, we heard a reading from the winner of this year's writing competition, who has had her book published! Our fantastic Year 6 author received two copies of her book in assembly and read two chapters to us. We are looking...