16 Apr

Year 5 debating - Should we use plastic?

In our Year 5 class this morning, students engaged in a spirited debate on plastic use after learning about ocean pollution from videos such as Blue Planet II.

They ranked everyday plastic items by necessity and discussed the material's pros and cons.

The debate highlighted the urgent…

22 Mar

Romans sin sin dex sin

We have been writing all about the Romans today. Wow! Didn't they invent a lot things?

22 Mar

Big Blue Whale

Year 3 have been using the story by Michael Morpurgo 'This morning I Met a Whale'.

Today we created our own leaflets detailing what amazing creatures whales are and

how important it is we think about protecting their habitat.

18 Mar

Year 5 and The Darkest Dark

In our literacy sessions this half term, Year 5 have been reading the story ‘The Darkest Dark’ written by Chris Hadfield (former astronaut). 
 

We’ve learnt how, as a young boy, Chris was afraid of the dark but after watching the moon landings (1969) he conquered his fear of the dark and set…

7 Mar

Year 1 World Book Day

We have dressed up as book characters and brought in our favourite books. We buddied up with Year 5 children to share our books with each other. 

15 Feb

Year 5 - Bringing our characters to life

 

Today in Year 5, we used the power of AI drawing to create images for our main characters from the stories we've created in our literacy sessions.
Pupils used a special program that used artificial intelligence (AI) to generate images based on their descriptions.

The results were amazing!…

9 Feb

Y6 Literacy

We are super proud of our Y6 story writers this week. We have written our own stories with a moral message. We then created illustrations and animations of our stories. Our results were FANTASTIC!

8 Feb

Year 3

Year 3 have been writing their own version of Stone Age Boy in literacy.

17 Jan

Thank You

Year 3 practised their ICT skills in literacy today and wrote thank you letters to Father Antony Dutton for hosting our class at St John's Church yesterday.

16 Jan

Let It Snow

Year 3 had a little break from their regular literacy lessons today.

We read the snowy poem 'Footprints' by Shirley Hughes

and were then inspired to create our own snowy poetry

based on this morning's experience.

12 Jan

Y6 Battle of Britain

Well done Y6 - Great World War 2 work!

We have been learning about World War 2 and specifically the Battle of Britain. In particular we:

identified the different phases of the battle and also compared the strengths of the Luftwaffe and the RAF.  We even had time to play our version of the…