All about Meerkats!!
Last week we were busy making our own non-fiction book all bout meerkats. We made sure our books had a colourful cover so everyone would want to read them. When we finished we swapped and had a look at other childrens. They all looked really good.
We made sure we…
Roman day
Last week, year 4 had a visit from a Roman soldier!! Many of us first saw him in the playground greeting children as they arrived for school. He taught us lots about himself, the Roman Empire and Roman Britain. We even learnt some Latin! Also we were able to have a close look at Roman objects,…
Science at Our Lady's
Year 4 were lucky enough to be invited to Our Lady's High School for another science lesson. Today we were in a science classroom which had very long desks. We learnt how to be safe when in a science lab, which we hope will be very soon! It is important to be sensible and follow rules when in the…
Mad science assembly
The mad science assembly on Friday was mad!!!!
The whole school assembly was great fun and showed us all how exciting science is.
DIRT: literacy
In year 6 we work together to discuss and assess each other's work, this really helps us to improve. Our partners always have lots of great ideas and we share them during our DIRT (dedicated, independent, reflective, time) sessions. We then act on the feedback given by our partners and improve our…
We are scientists!
We loved our science lesson this week! We had some owl pellets, which are pellets of regurgitated food which owls can't digest. We carefully broke them up using sticks and discovered lots of different tiny bones inside them. We washed the bones and then tried to identify which animals they had…
We are bug hunters!
This week in science we have been searching around our school for living things, non living things & things that were once alive. We found some mini beasts like worms, snails, dragon flies & wood louse.
We have also been looking carefully at different mini beasts…
Blackpool Zoo
Year 2 had a fantastic time at Blackpool Zoo.
We saw some amazing animals like giraffes, lions, tigers, penguins, wolves and lizards! We also held a hissing cockroach and stroked a bearded dragon lizard.
Roman learning logs of the week
Here are Emma and Charly our new winners of learning log of the week. They are holding Emma's game all about the Romans. We can't wait to have some time to play it.
We can't wait to see who wins next week!
Food in science!
In science we have been learning how to classify animals using a key. Did you know that a new species of frog has been found in New York? Scientists spent 2 years trying to classify it.
We wanted to use a key ourselves to explore how they work, so as a class we first started by trying to…
Anti bullying week
This week has been anti bullying week and we have been focusing on this in our lessons. In year 4 we discussed what bullying is and what we see and hear when it is taking place. We also shared what we see and hear in school when there are strong friendships, we had a lot more information on…