In history we are continuing our investigation into Fu Hoa’s tomb. We used our classification and inference skills to organise the artefacts found into groups that could tell us about life in the Shang dynasty. ...
In History we took a close look at the artefacts found in Fu Hao’s tomb in the Shang Dynasty. Fu Hoa was a female army leader and she was buried with many valuable items....
In PSHE we explored the different zones of regulation and discussed the importance of acknowledging our feelings and understanding that everybody at some point experiences all of the different zones and that is ok. We discussed different strategies of managing our feelings such as breathing...
In writing, we have started reading the beautiful 'Willow Pattern Story' by Allan Drummond. The story is pictured in the very famous willow pattern blue and white crockery still used today. At the start of the week, we immersersed ourselves into the story and made...
This week in Writing, our learning objective is to write a play script. In preparation for this, we immersed ourselves in play scripts by acting them out, explored and identified features of them and planned our own based on the book ‘A River’ by Marc...
This week as part of our science enquiry, we devised a fair test to see what variables could impact the brightness of a bulb in a circuit....
In maths we were investigating area using manipulative, we challenged ourselves to see how many different shapes we could make with an area of 7 squares of the same size....
We have loved learning about area this week using technology. We have learnt that area is the space inside a closed two-dimensional shape. We have been calculating area, comparing area and making our own shapes of a certain area using Geoboard on Braining Camp....
For science week we are exploring the theme of ‘Growth’ we investigated how yeast causes dough to rise....
We published some fantastic setting descriptions based on their own narrative inspired by ‘A River’ by Marc Martin. Miss Porritt was blown away by the captivating figurative language used such as onomatopoeia, similes, metaphors and expanded noun phrases. We are fantastic at creating mood and...