Horus the Avenger
This week in Year 5, we have been rewriting the myth, ‘Horus the Avenger’. First, we read the myth and put actions to the words to help the children understand the story. Then the children had to order the pictures from the myth and worked in small groups to think of creative expanded noun phrases, […]
Pulley Systems
In Year 5 this week, we have been researching what a pulley system is, what they are used for and how they have evolved over time. The children then made a prototype of a pulley system before creating their own design specification. They had to choose appropriate materials and tools to develop their own pulley […]
What are we learning this week?
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Area
This week in Year 4, we encountered area for the first time. We learnt that area is the amount of space taken up by a two-dimensional shape or surface. We explored different ways of working out the area of a shape, and recognised that some ways are better than others. We found the area of […]
Queen Elizabeth I
This week year two have been identifying features of a story in English. In maths the children have been identifying the tens and ones in numbers. In topic the children have been using historical sources to ask questions about Queen Elizabeth I.