This week, Year 5 and 6 have been exploring our guiding question: How have trains been on a journey of change? We discovered who had a pivotal role in the invention of the steam engine and how these machines transformed Britain at the time. To do this, we used the protocol ‘Building Background Knowledge’ where the pupils work collaboratively in groups to share information from a key text. We learnt about George Stephenson, James Watt, Richard Trevithick and Nigel Gresley and brought our findings together as a team.
Category : Beautiful Work
Oops! Neville spoilt the potion again… lucky, 6CC were on hand to fix it!
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📍 With Neville (me) ruining the felix felicis potion, it was 6CC’s task to filter the potion back to its original state. Through many stages of experimental filtering and sieving, all groups were able to systematically filtering out gradually smaller solids from the potion until they were left with the clearest liquid they could create. Yet again, each team demonstrated excellent problem-solving, collaborative and communication skills. Awesome effort, Crew Cicero! ✅
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Chance To Dance
This year, Y3 are working with the Royal Opera House on the Chance To Dance programme. Through this programme the children will be working on the Royal Ballet Alice in Wonderland. This week the children came up with 8 beat movements that they thought expressed the different characters from the ballet. The children used their imagination to transform into the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts and Alice. They thought about how all the different would act and used this to put together small routines in the style of the Alice ballet.
Comparing numbers with a ‘Twist’
3HJ couldn’t believe their ears when they were given permission to use the tables as jotters this week! You can see the excitement on their faces. Here we are showing our understanding of less than, more than and equal to. A fantastic maths lessons which resulted in wonderful outcomes! I also had plenty of volunteers to clean up too!
The Clean Water Challenge!
This week, our children became scientists for the afternoon and were tasked with the challenge of “cleaning” their dirty water sample. Through sharing ideas, and using a trial and error approach, the pupils constructed their own filtering systems with some real success!
Hogwarts Art Work
Chance To Dance
Last week saw the launch of our new and exciting dance program ‘Chance To Dance’. Year 3 visited Cast in Doncaster to watch an exceptional performance from the Royal Ballet! Our focus is Alice In Wonderland and we have been working hard to create motifs for the main characters – Alice, The White Rabbit, The Mad Hatter and The Queen of Hearts. Children have thought carefully how to portray their characters through movements and facial expressions which we then put to music!
Doncaster Museum
A very Roman visit from Ronulus
Rewind some 2000 years and 3HJ found themselves in Roman Britain! What a wonderful day we had learning all about the Roman way of life from a huge selection of artefacts including children’s toys, coins and jewellery. The children got so much from a hands on learning approach and we’re amazed to discover how Ronulus spent his time!
Check out the amazing costumes too!
Representing Numbers
3HJ have had their heads in the game this week and have made an awesome start to their maths work. The beautiful weather has enabled us to to take lots of our learning outside. Today Children challenged each other to represent a range of numbers in many different ways. Here we are using Base 10. Super learning on a super morning!
