Space: What’s out there?
This week, the children are enjoying another SAW week (science, art and writing) with the theme of Space. Yesterday, the children used mod roc to construct their own aliens. They firstly used a plastic bottle and newspaper to form the basic shapes, followed by covering the whole structure in mod…
Heating Update
After weeks of disruption and cold we have heating. Thank you so much to everyone involved in getting our school back to normal (and warm)! Brian from HCS has been a star, the Enquire Learning Trust central team has been fabulous, The Principal of Stokesley Academy has been more than…
Creating a solar system!
Today we created our own solar systems. We used paint and glitter to create the stars and then printed with balloons to create the planets.
Then, we learnt all about the Mars rover, Curiosity. We read a story all about his journey, watched his landing and then sent him a postcard from all the…
SAW week- ‘What’s out there?’
Today we all got very creative as part of our SAW week ‘ What’s out there?’
We read the story of the Hackney Martian and then created our own aliens.
The children had to design their own aliens, think about the shape, size and length of it’s arms and legs and then decorate it with a variety…
Wonderful Work!
Last week, during Literacy, we began work on our new text, ’The Village that Vanished’. We have made predictions on what we think it’s going to be about.
In topic lessons, we found out about the area of Africa in which it is set – Mozambique.
This week, we’ve imagined being one of the…
Wonderful Week!
We have had another wonderful week in Year 4/5!
In Literacy, we have been reading a little more from our text ‘The Village that Vanished’. We have discovered that the girl’s village is about to be attacked by slavers so we found out what that meant. The children were appalled that it actually…
What a busy week!
Year 2 have had another incredibly busy week!
In Literacy, we read ‘The Dark’ by Lemony Snicket. We drew what we thought the dark looks like, wrote advice for Laszlo, and made predictions about what we thought might be in the drawers in the basement.
In Maths, we worked collaboratively to…
Reading is great!
This morning I was delighted to award reading certificates to children during our celebration assembly. I love the fact that the vast majority of children in our school family enjoy reading and share books with one another. Those children who don’t like to read just haven’t found the right book…
Den building and tidy-up!
This week, some of the children carried on with building the willow den while others decided that the wildlife area needed a bit of a tidy-up. They discovered that there are some paved areas, which are being covered with soil and weeds, so they decided to start clearing them. The children…
The Christmasaurus
The Christmasaurus is great. It is about a boy called William Trundel. There are Lots of characters including elves , Santa, Brenda Payn,The hunter and his dog Growler. The Christmasaurus is a very nice animal to have as a pet but it is very shy. It is also hard to train to stay, follow, sit,…
Stick Man
Stick man is going on a jog. He gets into a lot of trouble. He is thinking will I ever get back to the family
Picasso!
This week we’ve learnt all about the famous artist Pablo Picasso.
Did you know that Picasso was baptized with a name that was 23 words long and that he was the co-founder of the artistic movement of cubism. This is where artists would paint an object or person from different angles using…