Blog by Bryn Thornton

This week, the children had a very exciting day of consolidating their knowledge about Ancient Egypt. We begun with some Egyptian mathematics! We learned all about the pyramids in Egypt and discussed why they were made the way that they were. We discussed different kinds of pyramids and which was…

Our link to world faiths in our RE topic had us exploring the Jewish festival of light, Hanukkah. Last week, the children learned the story of Hanukkah and a little about the Jewish faith. This week, we took part in a Hanukkah tradition of dreidel. The children used lots of skills to help them…

In science we have been investigating classification of animals. Children have spent some time learning about the groups: mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, fish, mulloscs and arthropods. Children split into small groups to research each classification, create a poster and then feed back to the…

To prepare our classroom for the festive period, the children spent a fun afternoon creating crafts. Firstly, we cut and created paper snowflakes to hang from the ceiling! Secondly, we decorated a Christmas bauble to represent ourselves. Lastly, we had a competition to see which team could make…

In our art, we have been focusing on getting our artistic pieces to flow and use space. Children were challenged to listen to a piece of music and create anything that came to mind from the music. Children have begun to use lines and marks alongside drawn images in various ways to represent the…

We are looking at our times tables in middle school, which means learning new times tables for years 3 and revising some for year 4. We have all had a fantastic start with our 3s and 4s. Today we learned that we can use what knowledge we already have to help us fill in the rest of the times tables…

Our art topic for this half term is Ancient Egyptian Scrolls, inspired by our topic in history. Children have been looking at the colours and patterns often represented in ancient Egyptian art. They have been looking at how they can adapt this into a representation of themselves. Fantastic…

In our PE topic this half term we are looking at dance and the topic myths and legends. We begun with the myth of king Midas and his golden touch. Children imagined what it was like to be Midas and his daughter, Marigold, at different stages of the myth’s story. They translated these emotions and…

We had another wonderful visit from let’s go sing this week! The children in middle school loved joining in on the fun singing exercises and learning the new songs. They all did so well at learning and singing - we do have a talented lot!

To introduce our first history lesson of the year, we began with some historical inquiry skills. Being a historian is a lot like being a detective, you have to build a picture based on different clues. 
To start with, children were given various clues to a mystery. Each clue told a story by…

As part of our English for this half term, the children are beginning with looking at instructions. To begin, we identified the features of instructions by trying to follow some ourselves. The instructions we had were how to fold and make an origami crab. We did very well at following the…

This week in English we are beginning to look into writing instructions. Within instructions, children may need to use prepositions. To practice our prepositions, children moved around the room, writing their own sentences with prepositions.