We have been learning all about texture in our art lessons. After producing rubbings of textures we found outside and recreating them on salt dough tiles, we have moved on to exploring textiles. By weaving strips of different materials, we…
Year 4 have been learning all about sound during their Science lessons. They have been using vocabulary such as pitch, frequency, and amplitude, investigating how pitch changes higher and lower,and how sound travels through solids. They are really enjoying the…
We are working towards creating our own mythological character, so today we used various sources to collect visual information in our sketchbooks to help us. We used sketches, notes and cut images to help us. In our next lesson,…
This week Year 2 will be focusing on the following tricky words and unusual sounding graphemes 'dge, st,sc' in words. Please can you practice the spellings at home. They have been using amazing sound talk in class! It will be…
All of Key Stage 2 had a special treat this afternoon: we were invited to attend a concert given by pupils at KES in the Ruddock Hall. We heard Emmy playing Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata on the viola, followed by Rebecca…
Today, rather than using the internet or text books to find out about ancient Greek life, each group became ‘experts’ on a different aspect of the topic. After 10 minutes of making sure that all members of our team knew…
Year 2 have been very busy since we have come back from our summer holidays. We have solved riddles that were left in gift bags for us. We used our imagination and no instructions. Can you guess what we…
The children are getting used to Kagan Co-operative Learning Structures and we are all learning as we go, teachers included! Kagan allows us to share work with no chances to opt out. It calls for contributions from everybody. We have…
In our art lessons this term, we are learning about texture. Last week, we explored many different textures on the school field and made rubbings of what we found: Today, we used a range of modelling tools to transfer some…
This afternoon, Y4 had a lot of fun texturing salt dough! To prepare for this, the children spent the afternoon last week exploring textures around forest school. They identified different texture types and used the process of rubbing to evidence…