Today Year 6 walked to the Town War memorial to pay our respects to the fallen.

This week Year 4 have begun their Design and Technology project.
The children will be learning about, discovering and making bread.

This week the children were given a sample of different types of bread to test and evaluate including white bread, pitta bread, whole meal bread and a naan like flat bread.

After tasting and evaluating the different breads the class determined their favourite to be a tie between the white bread and the naan bread.

With the wet, cooler weather approaching it was time to move indoors for this week’s football. Yet again another great match where all the skill that have been developed over the previous weeks were then put into practice with another year 3 vs the school competition.

To start with it was a close game until out of nowhere the school team scored but it wasn’t long till year 3 could stand no more and matched them.

This week in performing arts the children have begun to look at anti-bullying. Roleplaying situations where bullying could potentially happen the children then discussed what went wrong and how to make the situation better.

This week the children have learnt about the Hindu celebration of Diwali.

We started by learning about Diwali using the story – Dipal’s Diwali. The children learnt that people who celebrate Diwali buy new clothes, decorate their homes with; flowers, Rangoli patterns, and Diva Lights, and enjoy a feast with friends and family at the temple.

The children have a range of learning opportunities linked to the theme of Diwali.

The children took part in adult led activities; making 2D shape Rangoli patterns, making Diva Lights, and making Vegetable Curry.

Once the vegetable curry was ready the children tried what they had made…

Today Year 4 began their new Science topic.

We started the lesson by categorising different materials into different ways. The children were given: a paper towel, breadcrumbs, plastic spoon, water, white vinegar, flour, custard, sand, food colouring, rice, hand sanitiser, washing up liquid and breaded croutons.

After a number of minutes and a great amount of discussion in groups as to how they could be sorted the children then discussed as a class what had been found.

The children were then asked to think about which were solids and which were liquids. This then started a debate as to what was meant by solid and what the definition of a liquid was.

After another bout of categorising the children then determined which were solid, and which were liquid. But there was still some confusion as why water could pour but sand could also pour but this was a solid.

The children then went outside and made themselves into a solid and then into a liquid. This showed how the structure of the two are made up and how liquids are able to move much more freely.