In RE this term, we have been thinking about what makes each character in the Christmas story important. This week we got in role as Mary and Joseph and took part in a hot seating activity. Our peers asked us questions about why we would...
In Nursery we have been celebrating National Nursery Rhyme Week by listening to nursery rhymes we already know and learning new ones. We got to focus on, 'The wheels on the bus' and, 'Old McDonald had a farm'. We loved making our own paper buses...
We have been spending a lot of time this week using our imaginations and building all together. On this day we all decided to build a magical castle. Everyone helped get all the blocks we needed and we worked as a team to build the...
In Reading this week, we have been practicing our "storyteller voices". We have been sharing stories with each other so that we can practice reading with intonation in our voices, making what we are reading really engaging with our audience....
In Year 4 in our writing, we analysed poetry and put on some amazing performances. Next we will be writing our own and performing them....
In PHSE, we were learning about teamwork. We discussed why teams are necessary and what makes a good team. We then completed the challenge of making the tallest tower out of newspaper and masking tape in our teams. The winners were not the children with...
In Writing, we are looking into persuasive techniques to prepare us for writing a letter next week. To prepare us for this, we took part in a class debate. Our topic was: Is junk food suitable for children? Where we had to come up with...
In PSHE, we have been having lots of fun exploring what it means to do 'whole body listening.' We acted out what great and not so good listening looks like. We realised that good listening is not just about using your ears but also looking...
We have been writing our own Beowulf tale! We used our drama and narration skills to act out scenes from Beowulf and the Sea-hag. When we froze the narrator retold the story and the actors had to act out in response....
In History, we began our new topic based on The Vikings. To understand the importance of Viking longships, we played a detective hunt game. Here we used clues, coupled with the unique design to recreate our own longships....