Y3 ‘Mouthy Monsters’ D&T Project
Y3 have designed and built moving toys this week, which open their mouths when you blow into the straw at the back. Here are some of their builds! (Noah's monster is Henry VIII!)
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Year 4!
After taking the lead in last week’s Christmas celebrations, Year 4 were very much in the festive mood this week. We have created our Christmas cards by using thumbprint reindeers (complete with Rudolf red noses) and had to use our…
Super Choir Carol Singing
Super Choir wowed the audience at St Mary’s Hospice last night with their wonderful singing. It was a chilly evening but they warmed us up with beautiful harmonies!
Saving the World – Homework Projects
Year 4 had a two week homework project to research and present a project about an aspect of our IPC topic “Saving the World” of their choice. What amazing projects!
Year 3 & 4 Inspire Workshop -Writing Skills
This morning, Year 3 and 4 welcomed some of their parents to take part in a series of activities to develop writing skills. They had opportunity to practice: Kinesthetic Spelling - practicing the Year 3 and 4 exception words. Turning…
Year 5&6 Writing Inspire Workshop
A big thank you to all children and parents who took part in our writing workshop this morning. Spelling is much more fun with beads, pipe cleaners, wooden letters and SAND! We also got to play games with vocabulary cards,…
DT in Action – Battery Operated Lamps
This term’s design and technology project was to design and make a working battery operated lamp. We had to decide who our lamp was for and then explored circuits and switches in order to finalise our designs. Making was harder…
Trip to Cannock Chase War Museum
Years five and six had an amazing day at Cannock Chase War Museum, enriching our learning through drama and handling artefacts. Our guides were fascinating and we loved hearing about Mark’s German family and considering WW2 from an ordinary German…
Y3 Nature reserve trip
We had lots of fun at the nature centre learning all about endangered species, and even getting to watch some of them being fed!
WW1 centenary
Year six have combined our knowledge of WW1 with this term’s artist, George Seurat, to paint beautiful, effective Pointillist pictures. We then cut out silhouettes of soldiers, planes etc to layer over the top. Don’t they look great on our…