Blog Author: Mrs Charlton

The second week of lockdown and we've all been extremely busy. In topic we learned that there are 50 states in the USA and located these on a map. We also explored route 66, investigated electric circuits and in computing discussed and created our own fake and real news on Teams. For writing, the…

It's our first week back and I'm already proud of my class at how well they have adapted to online working. We have begun our new topic 'USA Road Trip'  sharing Mr Moore's adventures and experiences of America. We have also looked at landmarks across the USA and the children have produced some…

What a brilliant afternoon!

Well done everyone with your Topic homework.

Last week we explored Roman mosaics and how they told us so much about life in Roman times. We made our own class mosaic by cutting out small tiles of clay and painting, before assembling them onto our design. This is now proudly displayed in our classroom!

Today the children have been learning how to play the glockenspeil, along with reading musical notation, notes e and d. Have a look at our attempts at keeping the pulse.

We have been extremely busy this week! Today the children used graphic score to create a piece of music to represent a Roman battle. This week we have also compared a Roman soldier to that of a Celtic warrior. We discussed how well the Romans were trained and protected, which enabled them to…

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In English this week we have been reading the story ’Escape to Pompeii’. The children have been learning to use powerful verbs and adverbs to add further description to their writing. Here is a fantastic example written by Harry.

This week as part of our topic we have been learning about the Celts.  We explored how they lived and looked at aerial pictures of hill forts around the country. We also made posters to encourage the Celts to take up arms against the Romans. Have a look at some of our fabulous…

We've had a fantastic first week back learning our new topic 'I Am Warrior!' The class thoroughly enjoyed drawing their our own Roman and Celtic soldiers. Who do you think was the most fearsome?

The children have been busy learning all about volcanoes this week. We’ve explored continents and the movement of the tectonic plates. The children plotted a map showing the ‘ring of fire’ and labelled some the Earth’s major volcanoes. We then watched volcanic eruptions including the 2010 eruption…