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Year 3 have enjoyed learning all about mummification in our Ancient Egypt topic, 'Who's the Mummy?'

In Science, we have been exploring the suitability of materials.  This experiment involved testing the strength of paper and cardboard.

Knowledge: 

Identify and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials, including wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard…

We are using maps to locate the Jurassic coast

Knowledge:

Locate coasts in the UK

Skills: 

Identify physical features of a coast

Vocab: coast, coastline, arch, stack, shoreline, beach

We have been learning all about |Position and Direction in maths using the Beebot

Knowledge: to recognise full turns, half turns and quarter turns.

Skills: to use the language of ":forwards, backwards, left and right"

Vocab: as above

Year 4 have been consolidating their angles and triangle knowledge with lollipops sticks. 

Well Done Year 4! 

Flashback to a great Y3 Class Assembly for parents and for the whole school. Well done!  

The Nursery children went on a shape hunt around the classroom, and then sorted the shapes. We then talked about how many sides and corners each shape has, and sang some shape songs.

In history we are learning about famous explorers. 

Children have been inspired by the work of William Morris to design and create a rainforest print.

The children learnt how to batik fabric.  

Children in Year 4 have been exploring different 3D structures as part of the design process. 

We had lots of structures falling down!! 

Well done to the Year 3 pupils and friends who performed so fantastically at the Civic Hall as the new Mayor Of Ellesmere Port took office.  We were very honoured to be present at the ceremony as our Chair of Governors, Councillor Donovan, was sworn in as the new Mayor.  You were all fantastic in…

This week, children in Year 4 have been exploring and writing their own Haiku poems about Nature and the Seasons.

Haiku poems have a unique syllable structure (5-7-5) over 3 lines.