Curriculum News
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'.
Testing Solubility
Owls' Science topic this half term is Properties and Changes in Materials. This week we looked at solubility. The children had to work as scientists to plan and carry out their own tests to investigate the solubility of different materials. Lots of great learning and...
Ancient Egyptian Immersion Day
To launch our new History topic, the Owls class started the term with an Ancient Egyptian immersion day. The children first had to 'excavate' some artefacts from an archaeological dig, examine them and make predictions about them. In Maths, we investigated how many...
Annie the Musical
On Wednesday 19th July, the Owls and Swans performed the musical 'Annie' to family, friends and staff and children in the school. The children acted and sung beautifully and confidently and wowed the audiences with their various talents, including those who helped...
Computing Programming Bee Bots
This week the children have been exploring the unit Programming Bee Bots in Computing. The children were given three challenges - build a bridge out of bricks for Bee Bot to drive through, make the Bee Bot turn all the way round in a circle without moving off the...
Netball County Final
On Wednesday 21st June, a group of children represented our school in the netball county final. They played really well demonstrating good team spirit and skill. Thank you to Mrs Wyncoll and Mrs Allum for coaching and accompanying them to the tournaments. [gallery...
Investigating the Heart
In Science we dissected a heart. The children had been learning about the heart in previous lessons so this really helped embed the learning. Some of them were really brave and used scalpels to cut into the chambers! ...
The Stolen Generation
The Swans have been learning about 'The Stolen Generation'. They wrote an explanation text about this; and one child was asked to read her work to the class. The standard of their writing has been exceptional. The children have learnt about the effects of colonisation...
Science Club
In the recent after school science club, the children experimented with different material to see which was the most effective to make 'skittles'. Great fun was had by all.
Science – Rachel Carson
Last week, the children became Scientists. This half term the focus of their Science is a Scientist Study looking at the Essential Question - Why do scientists need to look after our seas?. The children thought about the question - What is a Marine Biologist? Who is...
World Ocean Day
The children in Kingfishers Class celebrated World Ocean Day on Thursday 8th June. The children found the ocean in the classroom with lots of sea creatures and lots of rubbish. The children found out all about World Ocean Day and discussed how they could protect the...