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Skeletons!!

This afternoon we looked carefully at what makes up the human skeleton, we then made our own! 

Remembrance Day

Armistice Day is on the 11th November and is also known as Remembrance Day.

It marks the day World War One ended, at 11 am on the 11th day of the 11th month, in 1918. Every Remembrance Day at 11 am, people all over the world come together for 2 minutes of silence. We have a…

Music

Today, we enjoyed our first music lesson with our new music teacher, Mrs Warner! 

Throughout this unit 'Glockenspiel,' we will learn to play and read the notes C, D E and F. We will also learn to play the tunes:

• Easy E
• Strictly D
• Play your music
• Drive
• Dee Cee's…

Eatwell Plates

Today we looked at the 5 different food groups that make up the Government recommended Eatwell Plate;

• carbohydrates
• fruit and vegetables
• proteins
• dairy
• sugars and fats

We have been learning about what each food group does for our bodies and what proportions we…

Taking Flight

This afternoon we started our new English topic based on the short animation, Taking Flight. Taking Flight is a short film inspired by Antonio Pasin, inventor of the Radio Flyer wagon. In this fictional tribute to Pasin's legacy, what begins as a small boy's boring day with…

Health and movement

We started our new science topic this afternoon, looking at how humans get the nutrition they need from what they eat.

There are many different ways you can group food. One way we looked at this afternoon was into the food groups:

• Carbohydrates
• Fruit and…

Purple Mash

Today we had our first computing lesson using Purple Mash and it was so much fun!! 

Our first unit is Coding. Throughout this unit we will aim:

• to explain what coding us
• to use timers in 2Code to create different effects
• To use repetition commands  
• To introduce if…

Number Stacks

Class 4 Autumn 1

Class 4 have been incredibly busy this half term and have worked their socks off in all learning.

As we couldn't hold our usual style of parents consultations this time round, we wanted to give you all a glimpse of some of our displays showing our fabulous learning in…

Boudica

This is Boudica. She was the wife of Prasutagus, who was the king of the Celtic Iceni tribe. When the Romans invaded in 43 AD, they allowed Prasutagus to keep his land. However, when Prasutagus died and Boudica became queen of the Iceni, the Romans took control of all the Iceni lands by…

Christmas...in October?!

Christmas has once again arrived early at Aberford Primary School as the time has come for us to design our Cauliflower Christmas Cards.

Keep an eye out next week for your order forms and your child's amazing design.

Here is a sneaky peak of some of our…

Investigating Yeast

As part of our topic on Classification, we have been looking at micro-organisms. Not only did we complete lots of research to find out as much as we could about micro-organisms, we also conducted an experiment with yeast.

Yeast is a micro-organism that is used in…