Chantez en Français avec Class 6!
Class 6 have been learning a new song in French this week, as we prepare for our upcoming WillowVision Song Contest! This video was taken during rehearsal, after just two […]
Category Archives: Year 4
Story Spoons on the Green Screen!
Year 4 took their drama learning to the next level today, using the story spoons to conduct their eye-witness interviews on the green screen! Take a look at their fantastic […]
Eye-Witness Interviews in Drama
Year 3 & 4 have become journalists this week, preparing for writing a newspaper report about the outbreak of plague in Eyam … In Drama today, children interviewed eye-witnesses for […]
Times Tables Morning Maths
To get ready for our Times Tables tests in June, Year 4 children are busy practising their TT Rockstars skills when they first come into school. A great start to […]
Investigating Money in Maths
Class 6 had a fantastic Maths lessons today, exploring and investigating with money! First, everyone had their own purse with different coins in. We had to count our money, convert […]
Year 3 & 4 Football RUFC
Year 3 & 4 Orienteering
Exploring Electrical Circuits!
Class 6 had a fantastic afternoon of investigation today, finding out how to make a complete electrical circuit! Take a look …
Eyam 2022
What an amazing residential we’ve had this week with Year 3 & 4 children! For these children, it was their first ever residential and they were absolutely fantastic, asking so […]
Year 3/4 PE Netball
KS2 Easter Assembly
It was wonderful to invite parents into school today for the KS2 Easter Assembly. We were really proud of all the children for giving a wonderful performance to their parents. […]
Iron Age Shields
This week, we’ve been using our pen & ink skills to create the artwork for our Spring term topic folder covers … Look at all that detail! Children have used […]
A day in the stone age!
What a fantastic day Class 5 had at Creswell Crags! We went back in time to the Stone Age and experienced life in a cave, making a shelter, hunting and […]
Class 6’s Bronze Age Settlement!
What an amazing term it’s been for DT in Year 3 and 4! The children have been expertly crafting their roundhouses for weeks now … carefully measuring and sawing wooden […]
T4W all about the Digestive system!
Class 5 have had lots of fun recently learning all about the Digestive System and today we used Talk For Writing to retell all the steps that take place. First, […]
Stone Age Adventure!
What a fantastic day we had yesterday at Creswell Crags! We went back in time to the Stone Age and experienced life in a cave, making a shelter, hunting and […]
Stone Age Adventure!
What a fantastic day we’ve had today at Creswell Crags! We went back in time to the Stone Age and experienced life in a cave, making a shelter, hunting and […]
Year 3/4 Girls Football
Science Week: Teeth!
Do all liquids cause damage to our teeth? This was our research question for Science Week and we decided to find out by using eggs to represent our teeth … […]
Science Week: Special Mentions
What a fantastic week we’ve had this week for British Science Week! Our Science Ambassadors have once again made us so proud, topping off the week with a wonderful demonstration […]
Science Week: Family Learning!
What a wonderful morning of scientific learning! As part of British Science Week, Year 3 and 4 parents were invited to take part in a special science lesson with their […]
Wattle & Daub Construction in DT
In Year 3 & 4, we’ve been learning about how houses were built in the Bronze Age, using wattle & daub (woven wood daubed with a mixture of clay, mud […]
Stop Motion Animation in Science
Lower KS2 children have been learning about the digestive system in Science this term. Today, we used I can animate to make our own moving digestive systems … Fantastic teamwork! […]
Freeze Frames in Drama
Year 4 have been been working on their facial expressions and body language this morning in Drama, linked to their story writing in Literacy … Children split up into groups […]
Year 3 & 4 Boys Football
Modelling Clay in DT
Class 6 worked on the second stage of their DT project this afternoon, creating a clay foundation for their Bronze Age Roundhouses! The children showed amazing teamwork and resilience skills, […]
Heart of Willow Tree Casting Day!
What an amazing day we’ve had today with Casting Innovations Ltd! Mr Brooks and his team were in school all day, working on the next stage of our Heart of […]
Heart of Willow Tree
Year 3 and 4 started work on our exciting Heart of Willow Tree project this week! Every child (and adult!) across our phase, made a heart out of Fimo clay, […]
Hand Saws and Bench Hooks in DT
Year 4 made a fabulous start to their DT project today! Children carefully measured pieces of wood, using rulers, and then cut them using bench hooks and hand saws. After […]
P4C in CLASS 5- ‘THE BLACK HOLE’
This afternoon in our philosophy for children session, Class 5 watched a short film called ‘The Black Hole’ and we tried our best to form philosophical questions based on this. […]
Video Editing in Year 4
This week, we’ve been creating our very own TV documentaries all about the Stone Age, in preparation for writing a non-chronological report next week. The children have used their oracy […]
Year 3 & 4 Tag Rugby
Maths Club Fun!
Times Table Jenga was a big hit this afternoon, at our after school Maths Club! Take a look … Well done everyone!
Fraction Treasure Hunt!
Class 6 had a fantastic morning in Maths today, hunting and sorting out fractions! We love to take our Maths learning away from the desk! Well done, everyone!
Lunchtime Class Challenge Football
Pastel Cave Art
In year 4 today we have been using pastels to creat tone and textures for our cave paintings. We hope to see some cave paintings on our visit this term […]
Year 3 & 4 Tag Rugby
The children discussed that when there is space in front of them, that would be the most appropriate time to run with the ball. Their work rate and enthusiasm was […]
Year 3/4 become archaeologists!
What an amazing start to a new term we’ve had in Lower Key Stage Two today! Year 3 and 4 became archaeologists, uncovering hidden treasures of the Stone Age, by […]
Ice Investigation in Class 6
Class 6 have been observing how long it takes ice to melt at room temperature … We used a funnel to hold the solid ice as we measured the liquid […]
Mixed-Media Fabric Art
Class 6 have had another fantastic afternoon continuing with their fabric kapok tree art … First, we defined our painted trees with black fine liner pen. Then, we put our […]
Class 4&5 STEM Challenge
Class 4 and 5 have had a fantastic morning, building a structure to meet a specific design brief linked to our class text ‘The Explorer.’ By using their superb team […]
Observational Art in Class 6
Class 6 explored the smell and texture of tropical fruits today, as part of our rainforest topic, before creating our own pastel impressions of what we could see. Take a […]
Debating Deforestation in P4C
Class 6 had a wonderful discussion this morning about palm oil… We talked about why companies use palm oil and how it benefits their products, whilst also considering the damaging […]
Explorer STEM Challenge!
What an incredible morning of STEM learning we’ve had in Class 6 today … The children were given a design brief, linked to their class text, and put into teams […]
Year 3/4 Hockey
Liquid Racing in Science!
This afternoon, classes in lower key stage two have been working scientifically to investigate how different liquids flow… First, we had to guess what each of the liquids were by […]
Fabric Art in Class 6
Class 6 made a fantastic start to their fabric artwork today … We started by drawing and painting kapok trees onto our fabric. Next time, we’ll add some of the […]
SUMDOG CONTEST BEGINS!
We have been entered into the SUMDOG maths contest across England, which begins today and ends on Friday 11th November. The children in class 1 to class 9 have the […]
Embroidery Skills in Class 6
Class 6 have made a fantastic start to the new half term in Art today, practising their embroidery skills … We started by looking at the work of a textile […]
Year 3 & 4 Hockey
A superb start to the new term from Year 3 & 4 who were introduced to their new topic of Hockey. The children developed how to hold the stick correctly […]
Butterfly House
What an amazing day we’ve had today at the Tropical Butterfly House with Class 5! Children experienced a real rainforest habitat and even handled some rainforest animals!
Class 6 experience a tropical rainforest!
What an amazing day we’ve had today at the Tropical Butterfly House! The children experienced a real rainforest habitat and even handled some rainforest animals! The children’s behaviour was exceptional […]
Rainforest Animal Classification Keys
Class 6 have been using their ICT skills to support their Science learning this afternoon, creating classification keys using Purple Mash!
QR Code Maths Challenge!
Class 6 had a wonderful morning today, using the iPads to solve our rainforest explorer challenge! Take a look …
Green Screen Action in Film Making Club
Our film is really coming along now! The children took turns to be actors, directors and camera operators tonight, as we filmed on the green screen! We even started adding […]
Year 4 Football
Rainforest Survival Kits
Class 6 have shown incredible teamwork and creative thinking skills this afternoon, making their own rainforest survival kits! Mrs Tempest brought in lots of equipment to help us and we […]
Research in Literacy
Today in Class 6, children carried out their own research, using a variety of sources, in preparation for writing a non-chronological report about the rainforest. Children used iPads, library books, […]
Year 3/4 Football
Great to see Year 3/4 putting the skills learnt over previous weeks into practice in some small sided games. The children developed their knowledge of the rules/tactics. They all showed […]
Survival Skills Investigation in Class 6
Class 6 have had a wonderful week this week, writing our instructions on how to survive the rainforest. During that Literacy learning, we thought about how we might find and […]
Year 3&4 Sports Club
Comic Life in Year 4
Class 6 used their RE homework in ICT today, to create Comic Life collages of their life journeys! The objective was to insert images from a variety of sources (this […]
Year 3/4 Survival Skills – Shelter Building
Classes 4, 5 and 6 have been learning all about how to survive in the rainforest, ready to write instructions next week. Today’s objective was to follow a set of […]
Year 3/4 Music
Classes 4, 5 and 6 have been having a wonderful afternoon with Ms Daws today, making lots of progress with their Samba Music.
Lunchtime Play
It has been great to see our Playground Friends supporting games outside this lunchtime. Sports leaders have also been busy running sports on the playground too.
Pastel Art in Class 6
Class 6 made a fantastic start to their rainforest leaves in Art today! We started with the outline (yellow on white paper and charcoal on black) then we added the […]
How many invertebrates live on our school grounds?
Class 6 had a fantastic time searching our school grounds this afternoon, looking for invertebrates! In Science, we’ve been learning to group living things in a variety of ways. Today, […]
Year 3 &4 Sports Club
Y3 & 4 Football
Year 3 and 4 take their Drama learning ‘Into the Forest’ …
What a wonderful morning we’ve had in Year 3 and 4 today! As part of their new ‘Into the Forest’ topic, Lower Key Stage Two took their learning outside, into […]
Samba Music in Year 4!
Year 4 have made a fabulous start to a new term of Music, trying out a variety of instruments from Brazil… Why might Brazil be significant to our topic on […]
Home Learning in Class 6
Class 6 have returned to school this week with some amazing pieces of home learning! Take a look … These will look fabulous on our display! Well done, everyone!
P4C in Class 6!
Mrs Graham’s new class had a fantastic P4C session this afternoon in the sun, all about being kind to our friends … Our question was: is it ever right to […]
Attendance Certificates
Well done to all our children with 100% attendance this year. We know that for some of the time this year school was closed, but for every day they could […]
Finishing Touches in Year 4…
This afternoon, the children in Year 4 finished off their clay cottages by adding some colour … Well done, everyone!