This week in year 3, the children learnt about jobs involved in working within the built environment, including the fields of architecture, construction and engineering. They visited the New London Architecture Centre. They explored 3D models of London, spoke with architects and engineers and created...
Year 2 began their World of Work week by learning about the roles of emergency services in our community. The children learnt about several jobs that have an important place within our local communities and involve services to the public: emergency services, health jobs, fixing...
This week, we have been learning all about robots and machines for WOW week. They started the week learning how to programme a robot to follow a set of instructions. They then became civil engineers, building their own marble run using a range of materials....
This week for Reception's small world provision they created a map of a small town. The children constructed tunnels and bridges, added houses and road signs. They thoroughly enjoyed moving cars and people around their small world town. [gallery ids="9355,9356"]...
This week, we have been exploring different jobs served by the local community. We had a workshop explaining the role of postal workers and were given the opportunity to sort letters out in alphabetical order. Together, we explored the roles that police officers, doctors, builders...
This week in science, we have been learning about different species and classifying them by their different characteristics. In our lesson we created our own species identifying their physical attributes, diet and habitat. [gallery ids="9330"]...
In history this week, we continued learning about the Anglo-Saxons. We studied maps to help us identify place names that had Anglo-Saxon influences and discussed their meanings. Did you know that the Anglo-Saxon word for village was ham? Therefore, Tottenham is an example of their...
In reading, we are still thoroughly enjoying our class text, ‘The Boy at the back of the class’. We worked with our partners to answer questions from the text. Before we answered any questions we identified what the question was asking us to do and...
In history this week, we have been learning about the history of Hackney. We began by creating a timeline of notable Hackney landmarks. We analysed sources and used our prior knowledge of history to help us reason when we ordered the buildings from oldest to...
In maths this week, we have been measuring length and height, mass, volume and capacity and temperature. We have been enjoying carrying out lots of investigations measuring different objects with different units of measure. We particularly enjoyed measuring the mass of various objects using different...