4 months ago
Posted on 27th Nov 2024 by Mrs Ceri Williams

Rocks and Fossils with Dr Rogers 27th November 2024

Today we had a fabulous visit from geologist Dr Steven Rogers. He brought in lots of different rock samples for us to look closely at and some amazing fossils to hold and study. We learnt a lot about igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks as well as fossils such as trilobites and ammonites.

4 months ago
Posted on 20th Nov 2024 by Mrs Ceri Williams

Flint Knapping with Mrs Watts 20th November 2024

On 20th November 2024 we were lucky enough to welcome Mrs Suzy Watts into Class 3 to show and tell us all about flint knapping, a stone age skill. Flint knapping is the skill of making stone tools by hitting a stone core with a hammer to create flakes. The flakes are then shaped into tools like arrowheads, knives, and spearpoints.

4 months ago
Posted on 11th Nov 2024 by Mrs Ceri Williams

Prehistoric Art October 2024

This term we have been learning about prehistoric cave paintings and trying some ourselves using pastel and charcoal. We have been drawing animals on paper and sandpaper we they could experience what it may have been like to paint or draw on cave walls. You can also see us working on coil clay pots and some of the ones we have made.

5 months ago
Posted on 22nd Oct 2024 by Mrs Ceri Williams

Beeston Castle Trip

On 22nd October 2024, Classes 3 and 4 visited Beeston Castle in Cheshire. We walked up the very steep hill to the top where we saw the ruins of the medieval castle. We could see for miles and miles! We also visited a replica Bronze Age roundhouse.

6 months ago
Posted on 11th Sep 2024 by Mrs Ceri Williams

What Do Plants Need?

We looked at what a plant needs to survive. We divided into groups and each group looked at a different element such a light, water, soil, air and the correct temperature. We observed our young broad bean plants over a week and then looked at the results.

9 months ago
Posted on 09th Jun 2024 by Mrs Ceri Williams

Enchanted Apples and Magic Stories

This week, Class 3 started a new English unit on portal stories. Our hook lesson involved imaging that the basket of apples Mrs Williams brought in contained one enchanted apple. In the story-telling area, we each ate an apple and imagined what magic power it might have. Some of us thought the magic apple might make us a champion footballer or give us a secret voice, only audible to animals. We had great ideas.

We also thought of some lovely adjectives to describe our apples as we ate them such as; crunch, juicy, delicious, tasty to name but a few. Mrs Williams then read us our model text; a story about a little girl Poppy who finds an ancient, wooden door which takes her to a world of fantastic feasts and tiny people. Our work in the coming weeks will be inspired by this story when we will write our own portal tales.

10 months ago
Posted on 22nd May 2024 by Mrs Ceri Williams

Tomato Plant investigation

We have been learning in Science about what a plant needs to grow well. To investigate this more fully we got into groups and each were given a young tomato plant. Each group decided what they were going to deprive their plant of for a week; the options were water, light, warmth, air and soil.

After a week we compared the results with our control plant which had all of these. We were surprised to find out that the plant in sand (instead of soil) grew well although it wasn’t quite as big as the control. The plant deprived of water and the one deprived of warmth drooped and wilted very much. The plant deprived of air wilted a little. We decided that water and light were the most important for a growing planted.

We also made videos in our groups to explain our findings. Each groups had a director, presenter, plant expert, production assistant, camera person and script writer.

10 months ago
Posted on 15th May 2024 by Mrs Ceri Williams

Chocolate Tasting

As part of our explanation text writing this term, we have been writing about how chocolate is made. With all of the learning about and writing about chocolate, our mouths were watering so we decided to taste melted chocolate with fruit. As we ate we thought about the journey the chocolate had made from the bean or pod to the bar to our tummies. Needless to say, we really enjoyed this exploring lesson and it helped us very much with our writing.

11 months ago
Posted on 01st May 2024 by Mrs Ceri Williams

Cadbury World trip

On Wednesday 1st May, Class 3 and 4 went on a trip to Cadbury World in Birmingham. We learnt more about the fascinating ancient civilisation of the Maya and discovered their involvement in the early history of cocoa in c. AD 900. We found out that they made a drink out of cacao pods and that this eventually became fashionable in the UK, when John Cadbury started making hot chocolate and selling it in his shops. We also learnt about the current journey of chocolate from bean to bar and, of course, tasted some yummy chocolate as well as going on rides and touring the factory.