This week we have learnt...

Summer 1 - Week 2 

This week in art we have been looking at Jackson Pollock and creating our own Drip paintings. We looked at what they were, some examples of them and explored the use of tints (adding white to colours) and shades (adding black to colours). We then went outside to make our own paintings. 

Summer 1 - Week 1

We have started our new topic this week - Snapshots of History where we will be looking at different iconic photographs throughout history and learning about each of them. This week we started with learning about the Titanic - a boat that was deemed "unsinkable". We created a timeline from when Titanic left Southampton to when it hit the Iceberg and sank. 

In Art this week we are continuing with painting and exploring the work of Paul Klee and looking at different tints of colour (created by adding white to a starting colour to make it lighter). 

Spring 2 Week 4 

This week was particularly exciting as we have had a forensic science workshop on Monday afternoon. We became forensic scientists for the afternoon, looking for clues at a "crime scene" trying to work out who the person was that committed the "crime". 

This week in topic we have been comparing the similarities and differences between Italy and the UK (including language, money and weather) using Venn diagrams. 

We have also been further developing our computing skills by putting our branching databases onto iPads to sort dinosaurs down into individuals using the same skills we used last week when we did it on paper. 

In Science this week we have been looking at creating shadows and how the shapes of shadows change depending on what direction the light source is coming from. 

Spring 2 Week 3 

This week we have been looking more in detail about the human geographical features of Italy (the physical buildings) and created posters using research about different buildings including (Colosseum, Leaning Tower of Pisa and Milan Cathedral). 

We have also been learning more about branching databases in computing and creating our own using yes/ no questions we have been coming with in lesson to sort dinosaurs into individuals  

Spring 2 Week 2 

This week we have been learning more about Italy in Topic including some of the cities in the country including Rome, Milan, Turin and Venice 

We also have been looking at nature in art, using charcoal to draw natural shapes of animals from stimulus pictures. 

Spring 2 - Week 1 

The first week of another term is here! This week we started our learning about Italy and we were looking at where Italy is on a map and the children thought about what we already know about Italy. On Wednesday we went Number 8 for a dance festival, both Year 1 and 3 performed very well and did us proud. Then on Friday afternoon in art we were looking at making our own drawings of animals native to Britain using shapes we could see within the pictures to help make the drawing process easier. In computing we have been thinking about different types of questions we can ask (Yes/no or open-ended) which will help us to make our databases later in this unit.

Spring 1 Week 4 

This week we have been learning about Hieroglyphics (the writing system of the Ancient Egyptians). The children decoded messages written in Hieroglyphics, which we found very tricky, looked at the similarities and differences between Hieroglyphics and English and also wrote our names on Cartouches which were name labels commonly found on Sarcophaguses 

Spring 1 Week 3 -

This week we have been learning about the process of mummification (what Ancient Egyptians did after a person died). We even tried carefully wrapping our arms up in bandages to see how difficult it was when doing this as part of the mummification. 

These are just a few of the children's attempts at mummification and we all discussed that it was much harder than we thought it would be 

Spring 1 Week 1 -

This week we have had a historical experience day learning lots about Ancient Egypt. Year 3 completed lots of different activities to learn more about life in Ancient Egypt which will then help us in our future learning. 

Autumn 2 - Week 3 - 

This week we have been looking at the different ways that there are of crossing rivers and bridges in particular. We looked at the different shapes that bridges mainly had and began to build our own using these shapes (triangles and semi-circles). 

Autumn 2 - Week 1 

This week we started our learning about rivers. The children came into school on Monday morning to find the classroom was "flooded" to introduce our topic of rivers. We then thought about what we would save from our own homes if they were to get badly flooded. We also started looking at the features (source, mouth, meanders etc.) of a river by building our own river valleys out of sand and then even got water flowing down our river valleys 

Autumn 1 Week 3 

This week we were learning about archaeologists (people who dig up things from a long time ago) and what they did. 

We then became archaeologists for the afternoon to carefully dig bones and artefacts carefully like archaeologists did to find artefacts from Ancient Egypt 

Autumn 1 - 

This week we have been learning about Prehistoric Britain and putting the events of the Stone Age on a timeline (from oldest to newest)