Our challenges on Friday included; reflecting a light source to reach the 'eye' using a mirror maze, investigating the link between the distance of a light source and the size of shadow-is there a formula? Making shadow puppets to create effects of light/texture...all going on in one lesson -busy but lots of fun 😊 [...]
We are setting up an ‘Autumn’ area this week. Therefore, if anybody is braving the weather for a windy walk this weekend...we request any conkers, sticks, pine cones and dry leaves that you may find. Thanks! :-) Miss Smale
Thanks ever so much to Tilly, Thea, Tess, Ned and also Holly and Erin for making 150 cup cakes. Thanks also to impressive cakes from the Brakers and Hakins too! We now have about £80 for FROGS... which is really helpful for their funding! One complaint: I was only allowed to have one. Technically though, I saw four fingers.
A really busy and productive morning in class 3! We used Google Classroom to collect in a list of everyone's clubs and activities. Everyone edited the same Google Document and it was fun watching the document grow in size, and font choice, and colour! We also discussed the sharing of information and how we trusted each other with our documents [...]
It's been all about food in the Stepping Stones tent this week. The children have gathered around the table to put their culinary skills to practice and we have to say, the results have been absolutely delicious. Monday the tiddler bakers were set the biscuit challenge. They were each asked to think about what ingredients might be needed to make [...]
Class 3 were lucky to have a lovely day for our WW2 workshop today and we had a great time finding out about life for children and evacuees, drills, Morse code and code breaking as well has having the opportunity to hold and investigate different artifacts. We learnt to spot who might be a spy (who would have suspected innocent [...]
By popular request, we did our maths outside today......An excellent session - well done everyone. [categories whole-school, class4]
Thank you to Rachel Percival for her GIANT courgette/marrow donation... today it’s going into the Mediterranean Couscous Salad and Roasted Vegetable Lasagne. Xx
What a lovely afternoon's service! Class 4 started us off with a walk through from 1868. What would they put in a Time Capsule back then? We fast tracked back to the present day and opened up their Time Capsule only to start another in the present day... and again we zoomed to the school of the future where they [...]
We've started learning the story 'Handa's Surprise'. We've been learning all about different exotic fruits and today we had a chance to try some! We had; passion fruit, kiwi, pink grapefruit, papaya, pomegranate and mango! We had some mixed reviews...as you can tell from the pictures! We then voted for our favourite fruit. The most popular was mango. Nobody voted [...]
