Tuesday 29th April - P.E.

Today in rounders, we focused on bowling, ensuring that we were accurate in our throwing. We started by aiming into a hoop and then moved onto a tennis racket. We then played small games to apply our skills.

Friday 25th April

Today, we had an opportunity to listen to Year 5 reading their stories to us. We enjoyed listening to their Portal Stories and we were impressed with their expression and the description of their characters' emotions. We listened really carefully as it will help us with our own story writing. 

Tuesday 1st April - Science

This term, we have been looking at conservation and how humans can impact the environment. Today, we went litter picking in Maisie's Garden to improve our local environment.

27.3.25 - Football

In our P.E. lesson, we were learning about jockeying, which is a defensive move in football.

Friday 21st March - Art - Plinth People

Today, we created our plinth people using the plinths that we had previously made to display our art. We used wire to mmould the shape, then used binding to flesh out the body, and finally, cut materials to clothe them in the styles we wanted. It was very challenging, but working and helping each other and trying different techniques worked well. We were really pleased with the results. Each figure was unique and showed movement and the plinth worked brilliantly. 

Thursday 20th March - English Drama

Today, we retold the myth that we had written about Hercules! Just like a travelling band of players that entertained each town, we moved to a different class to perform our play. We had a narrator within each group and each person took on a role within the story. Can you spot who was acting the role of Hercules and who was the monster he defeated?

11.3.25 - Colchester Castle

Today, we visited Colchester Castle. We enjoyed walking around the museum looking at the artefacts; we built a Celt roundhouse and a Roman Villa; and we loved trying on costumes. The highlights of the day were going into the dungeons for the story tour and lunch time!

Friday 7th March - Art

In Art, we have been looking at plinths and how they are used to display sculptures. Today, we thought about how people may view a sculpture and made playdoh people to show how people would look at a statue. 

Thursday 6th March - WORLD BOOK DAY

We have enjoyed a whole day of revelling in books! Each House was given an Assembly by House Leaders about their author. Next, we designed our own book front covers and wrote a blurb to capture readers' interest. Then, we had Drop Everything and Read time. Next, we enjoyed a 'Book Cafe' where we were able to share books with each other and create a Book Tasting Menu of of three books we would like to read in Year 4! We learnt about the story of War Horse by Michael Morpurgo and finally, had a class teacher swap so they could read to us. What a day....

Monday 24th February - English

Today, we started a new writing unit based on myths and legends. A myth is a traditional story that explains the origin of a culture. A legend is a story based on a real person from the past often with exaggerated details. We learnt about different themes that Myths and Legends portray such as good vs evil, heroes and heroines, wise vs foolish, love and defeating an evil monster. Using the Legend of Robin Hood, we acted out parts of the story in freeze frames. 

Science - Tuesday 4th February

In Science, we have been looking at electrical circuits. We have learnt what components are needed to make a complete circuit and about insulators and conductors. Using this knowledge, we made our own switches so that we could control the flow of electricity in the circuit.

Art 3.2.25

In Art today, we painted our fruit clay tiles. We mixed the acrylic paints to make the correct colours for the fruit. Don't they look amazing!

Art - Wednesday 22nd January

In Art, we designed a our fruit tiles based on our sketches from last week. We then used different techniques to decorate our and joined pieces to make 3D effects, ensuring we joined it using cross-hatching.

Science - Monday 13th January

This week in Science, we have been looking at series circuits. We made our own circuit using wires, bulbs, batteries and switches.

Friday 10th January

This week, Year 6 can to share their stories with us. Check out the pictures on their class page. CLICK HERE

Computing

In computing we have been looking at networks. We talked about how they are connected to people in different networks. We demonstrated how computer networks work by passing messages around the classroom. This took a long time to get the message to the correct person so we added a switch to which sent the message directly to the correct person.

PE

We have been continuing to look at balances and now combined them with different jumps to make a sequence.

Wednesday 4th December

Today, we learnt about factor pairs in Maths. We learnt that a pair of numbers that are multiplied together are the factors and the multiple in makes is a product. Example: 4 x 5 = 20      4 and 5 are factors of 20.

We explored factor pairs of 24. Here is what we found.

Tuesday 12th November - PSHE - ODD SOCK DAY!

Today, we celebrated all the many ways we are different. Pupils enjoyed sharing their ideas about this year's theme of  'Respect', what it means and many ways we can show respect to those that are different from ourselves. Pupils shared things that were special about them and unique skills that they were good at. We each made a mini-flag to colloborate and create a Class Flag. Finally, we could show off our odd socks!

5.11.24

Today we started our Gymnastic block of work. We discuss why tension is important in gymnastics and practised tensing our muscles. We then practised a range of partner balance, which we had to tense our muscle for to ensure that we could hold the balance steady.

Art

In Art, we have been looking at illustrators of children's book. We have been practising using different media to create different atmospheres. Using these techniques we illustrated our own version of the Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll.

RE

Sheena and Katie came in to support our RE topic 'Can Love and Kindness Change the World?'

We worked in teams to illustrate the parable of the Great Banquet. 

23.9.24 - In Art we have been looking at illustrators and how they create different atmospheres in their illustrations. We used a range of different media to experiment how we could best represent a calm sea, a stormy sea, thunder and lightning, fire, wind and rain and a bleak forest. Can you work out which picture is which?

19/9/24: In Science we have been studying 'states of matter' the children acted out how the particles behave. In solids, particles are bonded together and tightly arranged with little energy; in liquids they are less well bonded and have more energy; in gases they are poorly bonded and have lots of energy. Can you guess which picture goes with which definition?

Thursday 12th September

This week we have been celebrating World First Aid Day. We had a special assembly where we learnt about how to be a first aider and learnt how to deal with head injuries, diabetes and CPR. In class, we enjoyed role playing scenarios dealing with an asthma attack, bleeding, burns and the recovery position. We talked about how to call for an ambulance and discussed how it is important to know your address or to have it written somewhere accessible in case of an emergency.

Thursday 5th September - P.E.

Pupils are enjoying their first lesson of 'Fundementals'. Today focussed on using core strength and balance.