Yesterday, Year 5 took a trip to the Breamish Valley in Ingram to explore how the river has had an effect on the surrounding landscape as well as looking at features of rivers such as the speed and depth. After a long bus ride, the classes split off in to two groups. Across the day, the children got
Everyone in Year One enjoyed our history lessons this week during which they have been learning about Mary Anning, the first person in England to excavate dinosaur fossils. They firstly listened to the story ‘Dinosaur Lady’. They then became artists and drew a detailed portrait of Mary Anning.
Over the past few weeks, Year 3 have been hard at work learning all about light during their science lessons. They began with a blind fold challenge to understand the importance of light. As part of their job, they investigated which materials would be the most reflective – perfect for designing a
In maths, Year Six have already completed a unit of work on place value and are now working on calculations. During the Place Value unit of work, the children have developed a clear understanding of what each digit in a number represents within ones, tens hundreds, thousands up to ten million. They
In Computing, Year Two have been learning all about Information Technology (IT). They found out that information technology is a computer or something that works with a computer. To begin, the children worked with a partner to name lots of different devices, including a laptop, camera and smart sp
Our PE topic of Gymnastics this week progressed onto jumping at heights. Over the term, we have looked at key shapes, balances and this week jumps. We refreshed previous learning about landing and jumps on the ground, and today we introduced various heights and turns in to our jumps. Again we ha
This week in Year 5, we moved onto our next topic, and for the next two weeks, we are going to be learning all about rivers. To start off our new topic, the children used atlases to identify and locate the most famous rivers in the world. They were given a blank map with rivers from each continent.
This week Year One had their very first computing lesson. They were so excited to use the I-pads independently. Firstly they learnt about different tools such as the paintbrush and how they could use a thick or a thin brush. Also the pupils had ago at changing the colour of the paint and were
Over the last couple of weeks, the boys and girls have been working hard to understand the place value of 2 and 3 digit numbers. Firstly, they read and represented 2 digit numbers using base 10 and place value counters. Working in pairs, they then successfully read 3 digit numbers in words and num
The children have all had a fantastic start to Nursery this academic year and are now settling well into our rules and routines. Over the last 2 weeks, the children have been working hard to understand the rules and routines we have in Nursery. We have talked about our three school rules – ready, re
