Year 2 started their history topic, The Great Fire of London, with a trip to the City of London. The children learnt historical concepts such as ‘significance’ and ‘continuity and change’, and compared and contrasted varied architectural styles. They learnt all about Christopher Wren and...
Year 3 have been enjoying reading the book, ‘The Legend of Spud Murphy’. Two new vocabulary words they have been practising using are boredom and adventure. They have been enjoying their partner reading sessions. Partners take it in turn to read each page and summarise...
Year 4 made a role on the wall for the character of Edward Tulane. They used the book to help describe Edward’s personality at the start of the book. This is going to help them when they write their own character description of Edward. They...
Year 5 were lucky enough to have a STEAM workshop run by Kingston university. They brought their mobile lab to us and engaged the children in several different activities to teach them about forces. Rimsha said, ‘I enjoyed testing how far cars travelled on different surfaces....
Year 6 had a fantastic trip to Hackney Museum as part of their Black History learning. They learnt about Ethiopian coffee ice cream, called Buna Gelati, and looked at different materials from Kenya. They discussed the colours and patterns seen in the fabrics. ...
Nursery have had a busy week mark making, mixing colours to create new ones and developing their play skills. It is always lovely to see the big smiles on the nursery children’s faces as they have loads of fun at school. ...
Reception had another fantastic session at Forest Schools this week. They used hammers to help create leaf prints. ...
This week, year 1 went to Hackney Museum as part of the Black History learning. They enjoyed exploring the museum and learning all about the African Communities in Hackney. ...
Year 2 had another brilliant science lesson where they were investigating materials to find out if they were waterproof or absorbent. They tested four different materials and observed what happened. They were able to draw some conclusions about the different materials based on their properties. ...
This week in science, year 3 has been learning about the human skeleton. We used a pattern seeking enquiry to investigate if height was related to bone length. ...