Blog Author: Karen-Jane Bowers

Tiger Class have enjoyed learning how to be responsible this week when they made their own flour baby and took care of him/her.  They learnt what a baby needs to survive and how they should be looked after. Well done to our two most responsible parents!

We have been learning to weave on a loom like they did in The Iron Age.
The children have enjoyed this and showed lots of resilience.

Here is year 2 making castles with drawbridges for our D&T

Pond dipping in the school pond

Making rockpools - using junk modelling

This week we had our Mad Hatter's Tea Party to celebrate our learning on Alice in Wonderland. We have been working hard this term looking at the novel of Alice in Wonderland and at the other works Lewis Caroll has produced. We have also been writing instructions for cakes to take with us to the…

Expanding our vocabulary by investigating the parts of a fish

We have been re writing a traditional tale 
Here is an example of some of our writing 

Making Woolly Mammoths in Year 3

We have been learning all about Inuit art and today we created our own piece of art inspired by them!
First, we had to learn all about primary and secondary colours - we had lots of fun mixing and making the colours!

We then created our penguin inspired Inuit art! 

We visit Kent Life where we took part in various Stone Age workshops.  We met a tribe member, learnt about Stone Age weapons, learnt to grind grain, Stone Age worship, trade and hunting as well as created our own cave paintings.  We even enjoyed seeing the animals and had fun in the play areas! We…

What a fantastic WW2 evacuee day year 5 have had! 
We were joined by our first guest; from The Deal History Project, who taught the children lots of new facts about our local area during WW2. Our second guess (Mr Russel) shared a personal love story, which inspired the children to then write a…