French Day
French Day was a huge success this week. The children in Class Three loved working alongside peers in their houses to complete an exciting variety of activities including Eiffel Tower sculptures, French food tasting, learning geographical facts about France and touring the country using the VR…
Timestables
Children love learning their timestables, so we have created competitive games using a game board and dice. A great bit of fun and you can download these from our class page to play at home.
Where are we in the world?
Where are we in the world? That is our geography question to investigate this half term! We used Google Earth to locate the United Kingdom and then Edingale. We looked at aerial photographs of the village and located key areas.
‘Leaf thanks’ pages
As part of a new classroom reflection area activity, Class Three spent time reflecting on things they are thankful for during this Harvest season. As we are in Autumn, we made ‘leaf thanks’ pages for our reflection area. The children were extremely engaged and reflective.
What a fantastic start to the year!
What a fantastic start to the year! Our work this week was based around Flower Power by Caroline Wedd. After a special appearance from Caroline, we explored the themes and imagery of her story. The children produced some amazing pieces of work including original blurbs, word clouds and amazing…
Maths transition visit from John Taylor High School
We had a maths transition visit from John Taylor High School today! The focus was simplifying algebraic expressions and the children worked extremely hard to crack the codes!
DT - Sewing a blanket stitch
In D&T this week, Class Three learned how to sew a blanket stitch in preparation for making our stuffed toys as part of our textiles unit! The children were certainly demonstrating growth in this lesson and the progress they made along with the evident growth in confidence by the end of the lesson…
Flower Power!
Flower Power! On Wednesday we met Caroline, the author! All our work was linked to themes in the story and our school values. We are all hoping to grow and flourish together this year!
English hot-seating activity
In English today, Class Three got into character for a hot-seating activity! We generated and asked questions to the main character during an interview to check everyone’s understanding of Olive at this point in the text.
Science - Newton’s theory of gravity
In Science, Class Three learned about Newton’s theory of gravity. The children identified the difference between mass and weight before practically measuring a range of objects to see if there is a relationship between the mass and weight of an object. The children learned that an object’s mass…
Chapter Six of Letters from the Lighthouse
In English this week, after reading Chapter Six of Letters from the Lighthouse, Class Three got into character and re-wrote Olive’s postcard home truthfully. They used an informal tone and included 1940’s vocabulary too!
Investigating the causes of WW2
In History, we started our topic by investigating the causes of WW2. The children worked in groups to create timelines and researched the key events. All children were fascinated and many could recall what happened to Germany at the end of WW1, the significance of the Treaty of Versailles for…