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Greek Pottery 

On Wednesday it was time for the second stage of our pottery making. We painted our dried pots with a base coat colour of either black or orange. Next week we will be painting our traditional Ancient Greek patterns.

Take a closer look at our photos in our photo…

Three Little Birds

For the past few weeks, we have been working hard in music to learn the words and the notes to Bob Marley's 'Three Little Birds'. 

Today, we performed our song to Class 4. See below how we got on!

Sharing our work across the school

On Wednesday afternoon, Class 4 joined Class 2 in the school hall to buddy together. 

Class 4 have been especially proud of their homework this week. Their task  was to create a detailed map of Aberford

using  'Google Maps' and then transform this into a…

Classifying Sweets  

Written by Alfie and Lewis

On Tuesday afternoon in Science, Class 4 were set the challenge of classifying different types of sweet (this means separating them using a branching key)

The sweets involved were: Rolos, Smarties, Haribo, Liquorice Allsorts and Fruit…

'Tuesday'

This week we have started examining the picture book 'Tuesday'. The plot is rather complicated and extremely

mysterious as frogs, sitting on lilypads, begin their flight through the night sky!

As part of our unit on journalistic writing, we have begun to delve deeper into…

Leo's Weekend Diary - Bethany

Wow! Leo has returned back to school absolutely shattered after his jam packed birthday weekend with Bethany! He was extremely lucky to have been invited to Bethany's birthday party this weekend which involved going to see Sing at the cinema and for a delicious…

Magnet Strength 

Today, Class 3 pupils investigated the strength of different magnets. As a class, we brainstormed ideas as to how we would test strength and played around to see which methods would be realistic for us to carry out. We finally decided that we would test the strength of magnets…

Homework Heroes - Spring 1 - Week 3

This week, Class 4 were challenged to produce a detailed map of Aberford, indicating all of the key areas and main landmarks. Most children used Google Maps to help them complete this task; they found it very interesting looking at Aberford from this…

Homework Heroes - Week 3

Once again, Class 3 have produced some fantastic homework pieces! I have, once again, had to choose 3 children for homework hero as it was too difficult to choose! Huge well done to everyone this week but in particular Tilly, Billy and Beth. 

Tilly 

produced two…

Bonjour

In Class 3, we have been working hard on our French accent and fluency of speaking. We have been practicing french greetings, such as 

• Bonjour
• Salut
• Coucou
• Állo
• Ca,va?
• Comment allez vous?
• Trés bien, merci
• Oui, bein merci
• Comment t'appelle tu?
• Je m'appelle…

Weekly blog by William and Beth

Ancient Greek artists created paintings and sculptures, but one of their most famous inventions is the black and orange decorated pot. These were both practical objects that could be used for wine or water, and beautiful works of art. In Class 3 we have started…

Magnetism

Last week we looked at forces and how they can make an object slow down, speed up or change direction. This week we explored magnets and magnetic forces.

We learnt that magnetism is an invisible force that acts between two materials that do not have to be in direct contact. You…