Testing reflection
Year 3 have enjoyed testing a variety of materials with a torch and a reflection tester to see which ones are reflective. They then listed them in order of most reflective to least reflective.
Light and dark
Our new topic in Science is light and dark. We worked in groups to create a mind map of what we already know and what we would like to know about. We then grouped light sources and non light sources before putting our hands in a feely bag to guess what objects were in there. We soon learnt that it…
Christmas party
Year 3 and 4 had a lot of fun at their Christmas party!
Digestive system
Year 3 and 4 have been learning how the digestive system works. We conducted an experiment to learn where food goes after entering the mouth.
Remembrance Day
We were very respectful during the silence at 11am. We then learnt about the importance of Remembrance Day before making our beautiful poppies this afternoon.
We are illustrators!
This week, we have been learning about the illustrator of our class story Quentin Blake. We learnt that he starts with the facial expressions of his characters as getting this right is the most difficult part to do. In our sketch books, we tried drawing different faces to show different…
Y4 Mathematicians
In maths, we have started our unit on area. Today, we were learning what area is and using sticky notes to make different shapes that had the same area.
Maya Death Masks
As part of our topic 'Ancient Maya,' Year 3/4 have enjoyed designing, making and painting their own Ancient Maya death masks.
Year4 Mathematicians
In maths, we have been learning how to use written methods for subtraction. This has been a little tricky. However, we have persevered and found that using the place value counters has helped a lot.
Well done everyone. Keep up the hard work. ⭐️
Partner balancing in PE
This term in PE we have been working on balances and what skills are required for balancing. The children have explored individual, counter tension and counter balance and weight bearing balances and used these to create mini sequences. Here are a few pictures of our weight bearing balances.
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P.E collaboration
Year 3 worked so well collaboratively to perfect their mirrored balances with a partner. They produced some fantastic sequences of three balances with smooth transitions from one balance to the next.
The bones in our body
We labelled the bones in a human skeleton before working independently to label our own skeleton.
