In Year 2 we are learning about the heroic historical figure, Grace Darling, who rescued survivors from the shipwrecked Forfarshire in 1838. In order to understand how modern water safety has improved, we had a visitor from RNLI. We learnt all about the lifeboats and the special clothing that these voluntary lifesavers have to wear. We even got to try on some life jackets ourselves!
Photos to follow…
Year three have been investigating the origins of the Greek Olympic games and have been discovering all about the different events and why the games came to be. Did you know that the Ancient Greek Olympics were a celebration and a chance to worship the god Zeus? We were also very surprised that the competitors didn’t wear any clothes! We are now preparing for our own version of the games where we will invite our parents to be spectators. Don’t worry, we will be fully clothed!
We have been working hard to improve our number formation and write addition and subtraction number sentences.
On Friday 6b finished their Philip Pullman work! It looks amazing!
Teaming up with 3b, we had an afternoon of sharing our Philip Pullman ‘This is your life’ biography videos and reading our biographies to them.
After this we opened our hearts to year 3b as they showed us their learning which was spectacular!
Watch our ‘This is your life’ biographies!
Year 6 ‘ignited’ our new project ‘Cracking the Code’ on Monday!
We had an insightful day learning how coding works on ‘Scratch’ a computer system, understanding the importance of Bletchley Park and how it relates to Code Breaking in World War Two and learning how to write coded messages to our friends in Morse Code, a Zodiac Cipher and a Caesar Cipher!
Here are some pictures of the day!
https://www.cia.gov/kids-page/games/break-the-code (CIA code breaking game)
http://turinggame.sciencemuseum.org.uk/user (Alan Turing Science Museum)
1a and 4a met on Friday to share their amazing key author learning. 1a were superb in showing their amazing floor book with all of their learning inside and in particular not only singing their Gruffalo song but teaching the year 4 children their song. It was clear that year 1 had learnt a lot about Julia Donaldson.
Unfortunately, 4a’s edited version of their interview with Micheal Morpurgo had a few technical hitches however they were still able to show some clips of their work.
We can’t wait to share more learning with different years across the school.
The children in year 4 had an amazing ignite today as they left their normal selves behind and became Egyptian slaves, dancers, Pharaohs, craftsmen and actors today.
They had an amazing morning in which they were given the alter ego of an Egyptian to perform as for the day and took part in creating a variety of different objects that would have been placed in a Pharoah’s tomb. Amazing learning zones were achieved by all of the children in the morning as they were able to physically learn about the Egyptians.
A big congratulations to our year 6 star reader for completing the ‘Mythical Maze Summer Reading Challenge’ which was set by the library for the Summer Holidays.
She managed to read a total of 6 books in under 2 weeks!
WOW! Well done!
What a fantastic few days 6b have had back at our school!
We showed our Summer Holiday learning projects! The children really showed a fantastic understand of Philip Pullman and the journey of his life.
We then ‘ignited’ our ‘This is your Life’ Project where the children will be creating imovies using the ipads showing the journey of Philip Pullman’s life!
The children were taught the skills of drawing Polar bears….
…how to create a ‘This is your life’ movie using imovie by inserting sounds, pictures, visuals and voice overs…
…and have been learning about the structure and content of biographies ready to write their own biographies…
They will be using these skills to create a ‘This is your life’ movie on Philip Pullman!
We can’t wait to see the end result on Friday!
We have all tried out independent learning with our lanyards today. The children have really enjoyed moving around the unit and being responsible for their learning tasks in each area. 
