Image of Mythical creatures part 1
2 March 2020

Mythical creatures part 1

Using a variety of materials and Modroc, we’ve constructed a range of mythical creatures. We can’t wait to paint them when they are dry! Watch this space...

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Image of Marie Curie
2 March 2020

Marie Curie

My class had a superb day on Friday, learning all about Marie Curie and celebrating Women in Science. The children worked collaboratively to produce the poem below. I was truly blown away at how well they worked together, listening to each others ideas and offering tweaks and improvements until we…

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2 March 2020

Inspirational Women in Science day: Jane Goodall

We had a great time learning about Jane Goodall....

Jane studies animal behaviours (ethologist), and is known for her research on chimpanzees of Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. She discovered that chimpanzees make tools, eat and hunt for meat, and have similar social behaviour to…

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Image of English: Arthur and the Golden Rope
28 February 2020

English: Arthur and the Golden Rope

We’ve started our new class text ‘Arthur and the Golden Rope’, which ties in so well with our topic, ‘Gods and Mortals’. We have: predicted what we think the text is going to be about; responded to illustrations used in the book by using expanded noun phrases; written a small poem and made…

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28 February 2020

Progress with our school garden

Members of Global Council wrote to Raft wondering if they could raise money to fund a school garden. Raft kindly offered to fund this activity, and look at the resources we now have! In a few weeks, children will be planting vegetables ready for them to be harvested later on in the year.

What a…

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28 February 2020

Rishi Sunak writes back...

Before the holidays, we wrote letters to our local MP, Rishi Sunak about the devastating effects of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. This week, we have received a letter back. We are looking forward to him visiting Roseberry very soon - hopefully he will be answering some more of our…

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Image of Women in Science Day: Rosalind Franklin
28 February 2020

Women in Science Day: Rosalind Franklin

This morning, the children have been learning about Rosalind Franklin. She was a successful scientist who discovered the structure of DNA, however her work was stolen by two other scientists and as a result they won the Nobel Prize. The children were shocked that she was never awarded it as it was…

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28 February 2020

Mary Anning!

Today we have celebrated the life and work of Mary Anning. She was a fossil hunter that was born in Dorset in 1799. Mary and her father enjoyed looking for fossils on the local beach. 

After many years, Mary discovered some amazing fossils which were taken to The British Museum in London to be…

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27 February 2020

Tasting sweet potato!

This morning the children listened to the story of Anna Hibiscus. In the story it talks about how Anna really enjoys watching her family make sweet potato mash for their lunch. The children wanted to know what sweet potato tasted like, so we made our own sweet potato mash.

The children used…

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26 February 2020

Pancake Race

Well done to everybody who took part in our village pancake race!

We all had a lot of fun!

And a huge thank you to all of the adults who volunteered to help walk with us!

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26 February 2020

Our visit to Beamish

We had a fantastic visit to Beamish. We experienced what it would have been like to learn in a Victorian classroom in 1897; the children were surprised at the strictness of the teacher as they had to work in silence and refer to him as ‘Sir’. The lesson consisted of chanting the 12 times table;…

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26 February 2020

Beamish Trip

We had a fantastic visit to Beamish. We experienced what it would have been like to learn in a Victorian classroom in 1897; the children were surprised at the strictness of the teacher as they had to work in silence and refer to him as ‘Sir’. The lesson consisted of chanting the 12 times table;…

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