Curriculum News
Battle of Hastings
This half term, Owls' History topic is the Battle of Hastings and the Norman Invasion. We launched the topic with an immersion day. We looked at the three contenders to the throne in 1066: Harold Godwinson, Harald Hardrada and William, Duke of Normandy. We hot seated...
Wooden Reindeers!
The Swans had a great afternoon outside making their reindeers. They also learned how to strike sparks to create fire. Thank you Mrs Martin for all your help.
Moon Talk
On the evening of Monday 18th December, over 40 children and their families stayed after school to listen to a talk from Mike Barrett of the Dedham Vale Dark Skies campaign. During the talk, we were taught lots of facts about the Moon and about the various types of...
Tilly the Tale Spinner
On Thursday 14th December the children in Kingfishers and Woodpeckers class were very lucky as they had a story telling session with 'Tilly the Tale Spinner'. 'Tilly the Tale Spinner' told the children lots of Christmas tales. The children interacted and participated...
Winter Snowflakes
The children became artists and created their own snowflakes. Mrs Clark and the children talked about snowflakes and how they are made, the way they look and the fact that they are symmetrical. The children were given three pipe cleaners and asked to lay them on top...
The Boy who Harnessed the Wind
The Swans have been learning about William Kamkambura and how he harnessed the wind to create electricity for his village in Malawi. They were then set the challenge to create a windmill that could lift a small bucket of marbles! The classroom was full of excitement...
Autumn Wreaths
This afternoon the children became artists. Today, the children went on a nature hunt to collect leaves, pine cones, tree bark, evergreen stems and other signs of autumn. The children used the items they had collected to create a wreath using a paper plate. The...
Afternoon Tea for some Special Visitors
The Swans had a lovely time providing a WW2 themed 'afternoon tea' for the elderly members of their community. They had really enjoyed sharing information about life in the village during WW2 and wanted to say 'thank you' for coming into school and sharing their...
Learning about Hinduism
The Swans have been learning about the Hindu belief in Atman. The Atman refers to the real person inside an individual. It is made of part of the spirit of Brahman. They Hindus use the saying 'Namaste' to greet each other. This translates as 'The Divine Spirit in me...
Online Safety
The children in Kingfishers class have been learning about how to keep safe online. The children thought about the enquiry question - Can we understand how to treat others, both online and in-person? Miss Jones read the children the story of Digi Duck. The story was...
Prehistoric Art
In Art we have been looking at Prehistoric cave drawings. For our final piece in this unit, we tried to keep the materials we used as natural as possible as we know that materials such as paint and colouring pencils were not available for Stone Age people! We...
Computing ‘Packets’
Did you know that every image you send, document you write or video you see has to be sent across to you in packets? We looked at packets in our recent Computing lesson and learnt that packets are when documents online are broken up into lots of pieces and sent across...
Mechanisms – Fire Engines
This half term in Design and Technology the children have been focusing on Mechanisms - Making Fire Engines. The children investigated, designed, made and evaluated their Fire Engines. Great work Kingfishers. [gallery...
Art – Pudding Lane
The children became ‘artists’ and thought about the question can we draw in the style of Kandinsky using different media to create a picture of Pudding Lane? The children learnt about the artist Kandinsky and used his artwork to inspire their work. The children...
Hot Colours
The children became ‘artists’ and thought about the question - Can we make a print of The Great fire of London using 2D shapes and ‘hot’ colours? Today the children created foam flames. They watched Miss Jones as she demonstrated how to do it. The children followed...
Henry Moore ‘Shelters’
The Swans have begun to use the art skills they have learnt in order to create their final pieces based on Henry Moore's Shelter Drawings.
Henry Moore Shelters
The Swans have been practising creating contour lines in their art work in the style of Henry Moore. His Shelter drawings show people huddled together in the underground stations. The children got into groups of 3 and were photographed in a huddling position. They...
Ancient Egypt Workshop
On Monday 25th September, the Owls class were visited by an Ancient Egyptian scribe. The children got to take part in many activities such as writing Ancient Egyptian numbers on wax tablets, mummifying a body and building an Ancient Egyptian house. We learnt that they...
Visit to ‘The Shed’
The children had an amazing evacuee lunch at The Shed in Sproughton. Berty was impressed with all their knowledge about WW2 and they learnt a lot more from the artefacts which he shared - including the air raid siren! [gallery...
Mud Painting
The children became ‘artists’ and went on a walk to collect natural objects such as feathers, grass, flower buds or heads, leaves, twigs, pine cones. The children looked at the collection and discussed how they might use the objects to create paintbrushes. They also...
Stone Age Day at Stratford St Mary
On Wednesday 20th September 2023, a Stone Age man called Sealbit travelled through time to visit the children in Woodpeckers class! The children spent the day exploring The Stone Age through hands on, immersive experiences. The children learnt how man made fire, how...
Specular and Diffuse Reflection
In Science The Swans have been learning about specular and diffuse reflection. They were able to draw scientific diagrams to show how light is absorbed more by some materials than others. They then had some fun trying to reflect light beams to hit a target and using...
The Great Fire of London
The children began exploring their new topic for this half term. They were asked to work together to complete two puzzles. The children completed the puzzles and made a picture of ‘The Great Fire of London’ and ‘Samuel Pepys’. The children gave their ideas of what...
Henry Moore’s Shelters
In art we have begun looking at the artist Henry Moore. We explored mixing colours and different drawing media to create the different colours and effects he uses in his 'Shelter paintings'.