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  • Week Beginning 31st March 2025

    Published 03/04/25, by Alicia Ketteringham McCourt

    WOW! It certainly has been a busy last week of the term.

    All the children had the opportunity in D.T to create their own cushions and learn sewing techniques. All the pupils worked really hard despite this being challenging and a new experience for some children. The children then had to evaluate what they would have done differently if they were to do it again.

    In Computing, we have been looking at computer systems and their networks. Pupils have looked at examples of emails and decided whether they would allow or block. This opened up many conversations about the number of scams that happen around the world. Pupils have looked at the World Wide Web and discussed how they can find out where the website is from by looking at the address.

    In English, we have edited and rewritten our poems all based around strength. Some children chose to use their repeated phrases as 'I power on', 'I power through,' 'I am tough' and others.

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  • Week Beginning 24th March 2024

    Published 01/04/25, by Alicia Ketteringham McCourt

    We have had a very exciting event take place this week. Years 3 and 4 had an Ancient Rome experience day when they got to learn about the artefacts used, look at Roman coins and design their own ones. They had the opportunity to create posters based on recruiting soldiers and whether they would keep or give away the treasure that was left. They also had the opportunity to wear Roman armour, look at weapons and experience what it would have been like.

    In English, we have been planning and writing our own poems based on strength and resilience. Pupils have had to think of a repeated phrase they would use throughout. 

    In Science, we looked at the ear. Pupils had to draw a picture of the ear, label the key parts of the ear and write step-by-step instructions about how the ear works to help us hear sound.

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  • Week Beginning 17/03/25

    Published 21/03/25, by Alicia Ketteringham McCourt

    In groups, children completed a quiz all about the coliseum where they learnt different facts, such as when it was built, who it was built by and what material it was made out of. They then worked together to finish creating their pantheon model.

    In English, we have been continuing with our sentence-stacking lessons, using feelings, similes, repetition and metaphors. We have also created our success criteria and plotted our narrative map.

    In Maths, we have moved onto fractions where we looked at the numerator, denominator and the whole. We also looked at fractions on a number line. 

    In R.E, we have looked at Christianity and forgiveness. We looked at different scenarios and discussed which inspirational quotes matched with each scenario.

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  • Week Beginning 10/03/25

    Published 21/03/25, by Alicia Ketteringham McCourt

    In Maths, we have been looking at division where we then move onto dividing with a remainder. Pupils have used place value and counters to help support their learning of this concept.

    In Science, we have been looking at sound where this week's focus was on pitch. As a class, we completed an experiment looking at how high or low a pitch is and why the pitch can be different.

    In PSHE, pupils looked at smoking and its effects. Pupils had different scenarios where they acted them out.

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  • Week Beginning 3rd March 2025

    Published 05/03/25, by Alicia Ketteringham McCourt

    In Geography, we have started looking at Northern Ireland. This week focussed on Northern Ireland and learning about tourism. Pupils were able to learn about the history of Northern Ireland and what tourists like about Northern Ireland.

    In History, pupils looked at Julius Ceasar, learnt about his assassination and his life. 

    In Maths, we have been looking at dividing by exchanging and without exchanging.

    In P.E - pupils have continued their learning of football where they have been learning the rules and certain techniques. The children experienced mini-football matches.

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  • Week Beginning 24/02/25

    Published 26/02/25, by Alicia Ketteringham McCourt

    In English, we have looked at a poem, 'Still I Rise', by Maya Angelou. The pupils have learnt what the shapes are and have been looking at creating a poster all about the author of the poem.

    In PSHE, we have looked at friendships and how we make different friendships and why it is important to have different friendships.

    In History, we are looking at the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, where this week's focus was on the Punic wars where pupils wrote about when they happened and what happened. 

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  • Week Beginning 10th February 2025

    Published 14/02/25, by Alicia Ketteringham McCourt

    It has been a busy last week of term. 

    In PSHE, the children were set a team work challenge where they had to work together to design and make the funniest potato head. They had a range of resources to use and had to communicate with their team about the best way to complete the challenge. 

    In art, children have completed two pieces of artwork. One was based on 'The Fall of Icarus' and 'The Munch'. The children used complementary colours, discussed the design, identified the line, shape, form and colour. The children used different shapes to create their own artwork for 'The Fall of Icarus'. They then used watercolours to create the background of their artwork inspired by 'The Munch' They created their own drawings of someone screaming. 

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    In Computing, pupils use turtle academy to program a turtle, programming letters, looking at patterns and repeats, as well as using loops to create shapes.

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  • Week Beggining 03/02/25

    Published 06/02/25, by Alicia Ketteringham McCourt

    In R.E we have been looking at Buddhism. We looked at three different stories throughout the unit. In this lesson, the children have to look at which story they are going to choose and write about what the story teaches people, how this story can make the world a better place, why it was their favourite story and how it makes a difference to Buddhists.

    In English, we have started planning and writing our story based on 'The Whale'. This week, pupils have recapped skills that we have used in our sentence stacking lessons using their whiteboards to create sentences with the skills that we have looked at.

    In Maths, we have been looking at multiplying without and with exchanging using the column method. 

    In Science, we have been looking at how people have changed the local environment. The children have been discussing Florence Field and the impact this will have on our local area.

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  • Week Beginning 27th January 2025

    Published 30/01/25, by Alicia Ketteringham McCourt

    This week has been a busy week when we have been completing our assessments. The children have been working hard on these in Maths, Grammar, Spelling and Reading.

    In Geography, we have continued to look at Eastern Europe and compare the United Kingdom and Lithuania. The children used their ipads to find out key information about these two countries. 

    In History, we have been looking at leisure activities that Roman people used to do, looking at key historical facts of what the Amphitheatre and the Colosseum were used for. Pupils also looked at the public baths and how people would meet their friends, exercise and clean themselves.

    In Science, we have looked at the impact that air pollution has on the environment.

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  • Week Beginning 20th January 2025

    Published 24/01/25, by Alicia Ketteringham McCourt

    In English, we have been continuing with our sentence stacking lessons, where we have been looking at things, including feelings, cohesion, adjectives, inverted commas, fronted adverbials and more. We took on a challenge as part of an experience day when the children had to problem-solve to create a boat that would float for 20 seconds. 

    In Maths, we have looked at efficient multiplication, where children have been partitioning numbers and then multiplying the numbers by a single digit and adding the answer together. Pupils have looked at reasoning and problem-solving and identifying other efficient ways to work out the calculation.

    In Religious Education, we have continued to look at Buddhism. This week focused on The Buddha and the Angry Elephant, where pupils answered questions based on a story which looked at selfishness and compassion.

    In PSHE, we have looked at dreams and goals and this week focused on disappointment, why we might be disappointed, advice to give to people when they are feeling disappointed.

    In Science, we have identified what an ecosystem is, the importance of an ecosystem and what happens if a living thing or non-living is no longer in the ecosystem.

    In History, we looked at Pompeii and the eruption at Mount Vesuvius. We discussed the evidence left behind and why this is important. We looked at what Pompeii was like before the eruption.

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  • Week Beginning 13th January

    Published 16/01/25, by Alicia Ketteringham McCourt

    In Maths, we have been continuing with our learning on multiplication and division, where we have been looking at multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100. We have looked at factor pairs, reasoning about multiplication and multiplying 3 numbers.

    In Geography, we have been looking at Eastern Europe, where we have identified the Balkan and Baltic countries. 

    In English, we have continued looking at the Whale and completing our sentence stacking lessons where pupils have looked at similes, inner thoughts, noun phrases, personification, fronted adverbials, adjectives and have created sentences. 

    In R.E we have continued looking at Buddhism, where pupils have focused on change this week. Pupils have then drawn pictures and written about a positive change that has happened in their life.

    In History, pupils have looked at Roman society during the Roman Republic, where they created a societal diagram showing the different members of Roman Society. 

    In PSHE, pupils have looked at hopes and dreams where they have discussed how they could achieve their dream and looked at key messages of never giving up and showing resilience despite any challenges they may face when trying to achieve the hopes and dreams.

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  • Week Beginning 7th January

    Published 10/01/25, by Alicia Ketteringham McCourt

    We have had a busy first week back at school. The children have been swimming this week, where they all worked very hard. 

    In English, we have been looking at 'The Whale', where the children had an experience day when they researched different whales and created posters. The children have also looked at the main character of the book, which is Lucy, and identified from her appearance what an adventurer/explorer would look like and bring to support the adventure.

     In Maths, the children looked at the 11 timestables, 12 timestables, multiplying and dividing by 1 and 0. 

    In Science, the children have started a new unit of work based on Ecology. This week's focus was to research different habitats, looking at the animals and plants that live there, the weather and more.

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