Curriculum
To finish this terms topic the children welcomed their family members to Kingfishers Toy Museum. The children took on the role of tour guide. The children showed their family member around the toy museum. Thank you for coming, the children really enjoyed showing their visitors around the toy museum.
Year 5 and 6 had a wonderful afternoon listening to the life story of Derrick Thomas, a Windrush Elder. Not only did they learn about the Windrush Generation, they also learnt about the core values of resilience, self-belief and determination. The children had an opportunity to hold the Olympic torch and learnt about how he […]
Here is some of our published work from our instruction writing this half term. We used imperative verbs, adverbs ending in -ly, the simple present tense and some of us also used adverbials of time.
As part of our Evolution topic, we have been looking at how different artists portray monkeys and have begun to explore ideas in preparation for our final piece.
In English the children in Kingfishers Class have been focusing on the story ‘Traction Man is Here’ written by Mini Grey. The children have been writing their own adventure for Traction Man, deciding on what would happen when he visited school. Great work Kingfishers.
Year 6 have been learning about Charles Darwin and his Theory of Evolution. We looked at how different finches on the Galapagos Islands have different shaped beaks and thought about what this told us about their diet. We carried out an investigation to see which type of beak is suited to which food type. We […]
On Friday 23rd January, several of our children from Years 3-6 took part in the Young Voices choir concert at the O2 in London. Our children joined over 8500 other children to sing a range of songs to a packed audience. Thanks to Mrs Marshall for preparing the children so well for the concert and […]
Today we practiced Pentatonic Scales! We have been exploring the musical sounds of Chinese New Year, here are some of our own.
Owls Class’s DT topic this half term is Gears and Pulleys. In our first lesson, we made gears in different ways. We used corrugated card, playdough and paper clips and evaluated which ones worked better. The children showed really good practical skills to demonstrate their learning.
In History, we looked at the names, origins and professions of different Medieval migrants who came to Suffolk. We then used historical data to draw conclusions about whether they were welcomed and became fully integrated into our society.
Every Friday for this half term, we have Forest Schools. Our curriculum link for these sessions is D&T, with a focus on cooking. Today we all had a turn at making salt dough; we measured the flour and salt, carefully poured in water then mixed it using our hand. We then molded the dough into […]
For one of our weekly PE sessions this half term, we are being taught street dance by Sophie Dilworth from CDC Dance. Our first session concentrated on hip hop moves and all the children were brilliant!