3 Feb

Year 5 - Fun with Fractions

To support some of our Y5 today, a FRACTION of the class was having a WHOLE lot of fun with fractions!

Pupils were able to use their fractions knowledge in various ways, such as cutting a Wagon Wheel in HALF and QUARTERS and splitting oranges into eighths to bring segments back together to make…

2 Feb

Year 5 Storyboarding

In our literacy lessons, Year 5 have been channelling their inner directors and working together to create a storyboard for a scene from 'Arthur and The Golden Rope'.

We had to plan out how the scene would be shot if we were the director, we had to take into consideration how we would capture a…

1 Feb

Y6 KIND WORDS

PC Johnson generously gave Y6 her time this afternoon to talk about KIND WORDS.

We covered lots of topics including 'hate crime' and 'protected characteristics'.


We even took our fingerprints!

 

Thank you PC Johnson!

 

31 Jan

MAD Science

Today all the children were WOWed by our MADScience Assembly.  The children explored SOUND in a variety of fun and exciting ways. 

 

Please keep an eye out for a leaflet about the MAD Science after school club in the next few weeks. 

31 Jan

Spot the Difference

Children have been playing 'Spot the Difference'. 

Can you spot any similarities and differences between Roman Chester (Deva) 2000years ago and Chester now?

31 Jan

Year 1 Science

It's been a busy Science day today starting off with an amazing Science assembly in the hall with the whole school. We hope the children were inspired to become a scientist. In Year 1 we continued to explore materials and their properties. We found out which materials were absorbent. 

31 Jan

Year 2 Maths and manipulatives

Year 2 have been using manipulatives to find equal groups. This has helped them to count in "lots" or "groups" using Numicon.

Knowledge: Calculate mathematical statements for multiplication and division within the multiplication tables and write them using the multiplication (×), division (÷)…

31 Jan

Y6 RE - Sikhism

KNOWLEDGE:

Learning about how Sikhs worship.

Learning why the Gurdwara is important to the Sikh community. 

Why do Sikhs have a Langar?

What is the Golden Temple like?

 

VOCABULARY:

Langar, Guru Granth Sahib, Khanda, Gurdwara, equality, worship

31 Jan

"Y6 Geog Blog!"

KNOWLEDGE:

Lots of geography knowledge gained in Y6 this week. We have:

  • read about the major biomes around the world and considered how human actions are affecting them
  • considered how to make 4 and 6 figure grid references and gained some valuable map reading skills
  • learnt the major…
31 Jan

Year 1 Maths

Exploring patterns in our environment. In shape and colour patterns and number patterns. 

31 Jan

Year 1 Maths

Maths, exploring our numbers up to 20 in lots of practical ways.