Blog Author: Miss Brown

Electricity

This afternoon Class 3 thoroughly enjoyed constructing electrical circuits using wires, bulbs, switches and batteries. They worked as a team to complete challenges and explored what is needed to make a complete circuit. Fantastic work today! 

Cave Paintings

Class 3 have travelled back in time to the Stone Age era and created some amazing cave paintings!

Cave paintings are paintings on cave walls and ceilings. Usually, these paintings were made in prehistoric times. Most cave paintings date from 10,000 to 20,000 years ago. The…

The Stone Age Boy

In English today we re-created a hunting scene from our book. Om and her family took The Stone Age Boy on a group hunt, what an experience! We brainstormed thoughts, feelings and actions of each character. It was great fun, bringing drama into our English lessons.

Homework Club

At homework club this week, we completed Task 7 - to create a large Art Attack! As a team, we decided to create a flower using ourselves. We used our jumpers for the centre of the flower, the girls as petals, Miss Brown as the stalk and the boys as the leaves! 

Art - 'A Starry Night'

In Art this week, we looked at Van Gogh's 'A Starry Night'. Everyone was given a small part of the painting to enlarge to A4 using oil pastels. We each focussed on the colours, swirls and tiny details. Together, our work looks amazing!! 

Pupil blog by Beth and Ella

English/History

In Class 3 this week we have been learning about the River Nile, here is some of the information we have discovered…

Way back (3,500 years ago) the River Nile was the key to survival. It was so important to the ancient Egyptians because they…

String Telephones

In Science this week we made string telephones to explore how sound travels over a distance.

When one person talks into their cup, the cup vibrates. The sound energy of these vibrations passes along the string. The string is a solid, so the particles are very close…

English - The Pied Piper

In English this term, we have been looking at the ballad 'The Pied Piper' by Robert Browning. The legend dates back to the Middle Ages, the earliest references describing a piper, dressed in multicoloured ("pied") clothing, who was a rat-catcher hired by the town to…

Experience Church

On Thursday morning, we were invited by Reverend Martin to take part in an 'Experience Church' workshop at St Ricrius Church. We walked up to the church and were greeted by some wonderful volunteers who had organised  5 activities/ stations for us. We thoroughly enjoyed our…

Mental Health

Mental health problems affect about 1 in 10 children and young people. They include depression, anxiety and conduct disorder, and are often a direct response to what is happening in their lives.

Alarmingly, however, 70% of children and young people who experience a mental…

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