Blog Author: Ben Thomas

Year 2 celebrated the end of an excellent week with a story in the new outdoor classroom! The class have really worked really hard and have already produced some really good pieces of work, well done Year 2! 

This afternoon Year 3 got the opportunity to share their music learning with their parents. Children sang ‘This Is Me’ from ‘The Greatest Showman’, ‘Shotgun’ by George Ezra and a kenning poem called ‘Our School’ that the children wrote together. Children then used Purple Mash to show their parents…

In Year 3 today we have been learning how to colour mix. We used the primary colours and made other colours by mixing two or three primary colours together.

World Cup fever has hit Year 3!

This week children have all been assigned a country to research and produce work about. Children have made a flag, found out interesting facts about their country, and made a PicCollage on the iPads too.

Mrs Smith has been in each class over the past few weeks as children took part in the Southlands Virtual Competition. Each class completes four different challenges and each time a challenge is completed, points are gained.

A total score is calculated and this is then compared to other schools…

In Year 3 this week, we have been learning about angles. On Thursday, despite the very windy conditions, the children completed a range of angle challenges outside. They had to write down the route from the start of the cones to the end using the vocabulary; forward, 90 degrees, clockwise and…

In preparation for the royal wedding, Y5 made flower sculptures and researched royal weddings.  

In Year 3, to celebrate the royal wedding, we have been creating wedding invitations. We used the PicCollage app on the iPads to combine text and graphics to produce the invites. Some of our invitations are below, we think Harry and Meghan will be delighted by them!

The school handball team won the competition at Southlands! They played 3 games, winning two and drawing one, scored lots of goals and played superbly well throughout.

Congratulations to the team!

This week in Science, Year 3 have been learning why different plants need different amounts of water, heat and light. To understand this, we are going to investigate it by planting seeds in different conditions. Some of the seeds are outside where they will have access to light, heat and water and…

In RE we have been learning about the Hindu celebration of Rakshan Bandham. The celebration is all about family, love and unity and Hindus give each other Rakhi bracelets as a gift to symbolise the love they have for each other. We made our own Rakhi bracelets using wool and card.

Today Year 3 have been learning about St George and have been using the story about ‘St George and the Dragon’ to improve their writing. Children had to use a range of different sentence starters and structures to describe in detail a specific part of the story. Below are some examples of the…