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Year 5 - What would we do with our money?
Tue 19 Mar 2024Last week, Year 5 explored the importance of being able to distinguish between ‘wants’ and ‘needs’ and discussed the importance of being sensible with money. They learnt about what a credit card was and how people are charged interest on the money borrowed and why it is important to make good choices with what they do with any money they received.
One activity that they looked at involved discussing as a group what they would do with a variety of amounts of money. They had to consider whether they would put it into a savings account, invest the money, put it in their wallet for spending or put it into their money box. There were some great collaborative conversations and sorting out of funds and surprisingly across the class, they were unanimous in their decisions.
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Year 4 Science
Tue 19 Mar 2024In science this week, year 4 have been learning about how we can group animals depending on their features and into mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates and fish. Children worked in pairs to identify the different features different animals had and explained why they had grouped them like this.
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World Book Day
Fri 15 Mar 2024For World Book day, we had lots of fun! Each year group paraded around the school twice showing their creative and imaginative outfits. The children had the opportunity to share their books with other children in their class and in other year groups to discuss who their favourite characters are!
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Year 5: The Earth is the centre of the universe discussion
Wed 13 Mar 2024
The children enjoyed coming to the round table for a discussion upon the topic, 'The Earth is the centre of the universe'. They thought the original ideas of the Catholic Church came from a well-meaning place, as Jesus was so important to them and could be thought of as the centre of their world. They also discussed how, for people of the time, agreeing that the church was wrong would lead to them getting imprisoned, or might lead to other beliefs the church held also being questioned. We talked about how we have evidence today, even from as far back as the 1500s, that considers the Sun to be the centre of our universe, therefore refuting the discussion topic and proving it to be incorrect. With the increasingly better technology of today, scientists are able to explore further corners of our solar system and far-away galaxies. Some of the children even went on to share additional information from their own reading at home and ideas that included parallel universes! -
Year 5 - Live Video Call - Moon and Mars Mission!
Mon 11 Mar 2024Skyping live from the Spaceport Centre in Cornwall and broadcasting across the globe, Jo shared information on the current mission the new astronauts are working on with Year 5.
Excitedly, the children learnt all about the plans for the future years with the mission “Artemis” and how this includes creating livable pods on the moon! We were also introduced to the next astronauts which included many from Great Britain, including two women and the first para-astronaut ever - having only one leg!
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Year 3 Shadows Investigation
Mon 11 Mar 2024Last week, Year 3 were learning all about light in our science lessons. We headed out in the sunshine to explore our own shadows and learnt how shadows are formed when an opaque object blocks light from the light source.
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Year 1 World Book Day
Mon 11 Mar 2024Year 1 had a brilliant day celebrating books and book characters. We got to parade around the school showing others our costumes. We also watched some videos of Julia Donalson and Axel Sheffler and what they do as authors and illustrators. We then had a go at being illustrators ourselves and followed along a step by step video to draw our own Gruaffalos!
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Year 1 Collaging
Mon 11 Mar 2024This week, Year 1 have enjoyed being arty! We learnt about collages and how we create them. We looked at an artist called Brianna McCarthy and discussed her collages. Afterwards, we had a go at experimenting and copying some of her work. Finally, everyone had a go at creating their very own collage of a superhero’s face. Everyone did such an amazing job and we were so impressed - have a look at some of them here!