This week, Year 4 started their new design & technology unit of learning about food. The children started exploring the question, what makes a good sandwich? In this unit the children will be designing, making and evaluating their own healthy sandwich. They began by looking...
This week in science, Year 3 discussed what is a balanced diet? They identified the different types of nutrition a human needs and applied their knowledge on nutrition and food groups into designing balanced meals. [gallery ids="9785,9787,9788"]...
This week, Year 2 went on a fabulous trip to Hackney Museum for their Mas, Music and Movement Carnival workshop. We uncovered the history of carnival in Hackney across a 50 year period. We learnt about the emergence of the Caribbean carnival, the influence of...
In science, Year 1 have been learning to identify, name and sort everyday materials. They went on a material hunt around the school and found objects made from fabric, metal, glass, wood and plastic. [gallery ids="9773,9774,9775"]...
This week, Reception have continued settling into their routines and exploring their classroom. They have been engaging in lots of mark making activities including drawing self portraits, writing their names and writing all about Elmer the elephant from their key text. [gallery ids="9768,9769,9770"]...
Nursery have had another fantastic week settling in classroom routines and exploring the different resources available. They have made the most of the lovely weather and are confidently exploring the great outdoors. [gallery ids="9759,9761,9762,9763,9764"]...
Inspired by Frida Kahlo, Year 5 have been using water colours to paint their self portraits. They have been using their knowledge of colour theory to create complementary, contrasting and harmonious colours which create an atmosphere. Children needed to mix appropriate colours using watercolours to...
This week, Year 4 have painted their portraits. They created their own colour wheel mixing two primary colours together to make a secondary colour. They then created tertiary colours by mixing two secondary colours. We then choose one tertiary colour to create tints, shades and...
This week, Year 3 finished their self portraits. They all look incredible. The children pretended to be in a gallery and looked at each other’s artwork as part of our evaluation lesson. In pairs, the children reflected on their completed portraits with a peer identifying...
This week in writing, Year 2 we have continued to take inspiration from the text,’ Someone swallowed Stanley’. We have been finding adjectives to make our writing more descriptive. We know adjectives are describing words like sizes, feelings, appearances and colours. We then added them...