History
On Tuesday 17th March, the Owls class went to Mountfitchet Castle, which is a recreated Norman castle and village. The trip followed on from last half term’s History topic on the Norman Invasion. The children enjoyed looking inside all the different buildings and interacting with the artefacts there. They enjoyed trying to find or remember […]
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 […]
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.
Kingfishers Class began exploring their new topics for this half term. The children received a parcel. Miss Jones opened it and read the letter. The children were asked to work together to complete a puzzle. The children worked as a team and completed the puzzle and discussed what they could see in the picture. The […]
The Swans had lunch at The Shed in Sproughton to celebrate the end of their WW2 topic. They enjoyed being quizzed by Berty about their topic and had an opportunity to sit inside an air raid shelter and look at the WW2 memorabilia.
In our History topic on Ancient Egypt, Owls have been learning about mummification. We tried making some of our classmates into mummies!
The Swans have been learning about life as an evacuee. They went into role as a child who had been evacuated from the city to the countryside and shared their experience in an interview. We found out that not all evacuees had a good time!
The Year One children found out about their new topic – The Great Fire of London. The children looked at pictures and used their senses to describe what they could see in the pictures. The children saw – a big fire, cloud of smoke, path, lots of smoke, thin doorways, big explosion, shop, fire over […]
On Wednesday 10th September, the Owls took part in a workshop on Ancient Egypt, run by Make The Classroom Disappear. They experienced writing the Egyptian number system on wax tablets and making mud bricks. We learnt about the layout of an Ancient Egyptian house too. The highlight for most of us was learning about the […]
This term in art we are looking at Prehistoric Art, focusing on the Stone Age! We are linking this in through forest school where we will eventually be creating our own cave art paintings using natural resources from the forest area!
As part of our Immersion Day, we made WW2 airplanes – German and British. The children worked really hard to create these from a plastic bottle and modroc – it wasn’t as easy as it may look!