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In Design Technology this term, Year 6 have been commissioned by a well know online department store to design a chair. Pupils have chosen their target customer and have considered the most important elements of a chair design.  Both classes decided strength and being able to hold a person’s…

Today the year 4 children set to work investigating and exploring how to join materials together as part of this terms exciting DT project. And yes they did help to clear up too!

Thank you to everyone who has donated card, tubes, cups and pots, they will make fantastic Mayan Masks and we cant…

Well done, Christina (Year 5) for her amazing achievement in a golf competition: the Friday’s Stableford Juniors. Christina was the youngest competitor and gained 5th place. She is always the first in her family to be out practising her swing and it’s obviously paying off! We look forward to…

On Wednesday 11th November, Year 6 were very fortunate to be able to attend a special Remembrance Service led by Reverend Estella at St Mary’s Church in Patrixbourne. We read prayers and thought of local soldiers who fought in the war. Year 6 also created reflective haikus to read at the service.…

Today (11.11.2020) in Year 5 we have spent time learning about Remembrance Day and why we take time to reflect on this day. The children have created these lovely ‘Black-Out’ poems. They used the poems: In Flanders Fields and For the Fallen as their starting point. Next, the children chose words…

Just before the half-term holidays, Year 5 finished making their ‘Lost Thing’ abstract sculptures. The pupil’s work was inspired by Shaun Tan’s picture book ‘The Lost Thing’, their own observational drawings of natural form objects and sculptures by the artist Grayson Perry. Like Grayson Perry,…

Year 6 had a great day on Wednesday taking part in the Virtual Cathedral School Day. We had a virtual tour of the cathedral and learnt about the history of the Bossanyi stained glass windows, designed our own illuminated letters from scriptures and reflected on our future journeys to secondary…

Wow, what a great term!

 

Year 3 have had such fun over the last few weeks learning about Bridge. We have linked our learning -both inside and outside of the classroom- to History and Geography. Our aim was for the children to have a clearer knowledge and interest of the village. We wanted…

Everyone in Year 4 hopes that you were able to enjoy the bread that we made last week? Making bread was great fun and linked nicely with our Science topic of Changing Materials and also with our DT project of product design. We wonder if anyone will make bread over half term? Take care everyone…

For our second unit of English this term Year 5 have been learning how to write an explanation text. This has engaged the children in a range of different structural and language features used for this style of writing. Our main focus was the use of cause and effect sentences where the children…

Year 5 have been learning a dance linked to our focus text The Lost Thing. The children have worked really hard developing their sequencing of movements and have completed a final performance to share with you all!

This week has concluded our learning on the True Story of The Three Little Pigs by the children writing their own story from the point of view of the wolf. Prior to writing the children acted out the story through drama and using puppets. All the children did an amazing job and included lots of…