Using Google Earth to explore a timelapse

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Year 5 students recently embarked on a digital expedition with Google Earth’s Timelapse feature to witness the profound effects of climate change. This powerful tool allowed them to see the Earth’s surface changes over time, revealing the stark reality of environmental transformations. From the…

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Year 5's Body Percussion

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Year 5 explored the concept of looping in music through the engaging medium of body percussion. They learned to create sounds using their hands, feet, and bodies and then looped these sounds to form rhythmic patterns.

By layering these loops in groups, they composed intricate musical pieces.…

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Year 1 Orienteering

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Editing photos

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Year 3 have been learning to edit photos on the computer. We started by taking photos of our orienteering course before editing the pictures with a variety of tools. 

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Finding fractions

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Year 3 have been working practically to find out 2/3, 3/4, 5/8

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Safety Seymour

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Year 3 received a visit from Safety Seymour, a superhero bear from outer space on a mission to teach children and their families about carbon monoxide (CO) and how to protect ourselves, making homes safer.  

Carbon monoxide can be very dangerous and can make you very ill. You can’t see it, hear…

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Fly Me To The Moon

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The Earth-Moon Distance

The first stop on their cosmic journey was understanding the distance between the Earth and the Moon. The children learned that this distance is approximately 385,000 kilometres

 

The Height of the ISS

Next, the children turned their attention to the…

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Year 1 Science

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Year 1 Maths

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Year 2 Maths

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Year 2 have been learning what a fraction is and how to find halves and quarters of shapes.

Knowledge :to identify 1/4, 1/3, 2/4 and 3/4 of a shape and know that all parts must be equal parts of a whole

Skills: to understand the difference between equal and unequal parts

Vocab: fraction.…

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Y6 Art

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ART! We have been MAKING MEMORIES! 

 

This week in art, Year 6:

  • explored expressing themselves in a 'literal' and 'symbolic' way
  • represented memories through shapes, colours and textures
  • looked at real artists' work and discussed how they could use elements of it in their own…
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Year 1 Geography

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