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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…

Personification Poems

We have thoroughly enjoyed bringing Might Mount Vesuvius alive this week! 

'What do you want to be when you grow up?' said the boy.

'Kind,' said the mole.

Today we  had a wonderful afternoon creating some artwork inspired by Charlie Mackesy ✨ His beautifully moving book about love, friendship and kindness has inspired us all

We're back!! 

Take a closer look at our photos in our photo gallery!

Invaders and Settlers

Today, we started our new History topic; Invaders and Settlers; The Romans. 

We began by thinking about why people may move house, town, city or even to a new country. We discovered that people move to new places for lots of different reasons and have been doing so for…