Blog by Tag: Collaboration

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.

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…

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.

During assembly this morning, the Rotary Club kindly donated some new outdoor equipment for us to play with at playtime. We have had great fun trying it out today!

 The girls' football team went to Bradley football ground yesterday afternoon and played 6 different schools. They excelled as a team and certainly made an impression on most of the other schools. They won five out of the six games with a score of 1-0, 5-0, 7-0, 3-0 and 8-0! They also faced a…

The children chosen to represent the school by competing in the Sports Hall Athletic Heats, had a fantastic time competing against each other and together in lots of different events. These included both track and field events such as the standing long jump, the speed bounce, vertical jump and…

Our kurling team was in action just before the half term holiday. The children had a great time, with our girls' team making the final of their group and both the boys' and girls' team being awarded the the most sporting teams. Well done Dominic, Ruby, Max and Logan.

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.

It was lovely to hear about a range of achievements in assembly. The children were so proud to show us their awards and tell us about them. 

Our Year 5/6 basketball team were in action last week. They drew their first match 1-1 and were put into the competition league. Opposition was tough and the team narrowly lost the three games that they played. Throughout the tournament the team were incredibly supportive towards one another and…

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. ⭐️

We visited Bradley Pitches today to play Tag rugby against 3 other schools. We were split into mixed groups and completed 4 different warm up tasks. Then we were put with another team to play some matches, putting into action the skills we had learnt in the warm up tasks. We had a fantastic…