Chandra, Sputnik & Voyager Class Blog

  Welcome back everyone. Well it has been a fun packed week and we have thoroughly enjoyed celebrating World Book Day. It was great to see so many children dressed up as a variety of characters from books. The school was full of wizards, footballers, dragons, Vikings, princesses, elves and

Well, what a strange end to term 3. Thank you to all the children who joined us for our online learning sessions this morning. Thanks also to the parents who were no doubt sorting out technical issues etc. in the background. We teachers must admit, that we had forgotten about

This week has been Children’s Mental Health Week. The children carefully considered the things that will help them to grow not only in body but also in mind. They discussed how important it is to have kind and caring people around them, people they can talk to, good friends and

We have had yet another busy week. Today, we all went out onto the field to join in with the Big Garden Bird Watch. Using binoculars, we spent time identify different birds. We spied lots of carrion crows, starlings, gulls, wood pigeons and even a little wag tail or two.

This week Glenda, who is  a senior nurse, came into school to tell us all about x rays. Following a presentation, we discovered lots of interesting facts about x rays. We learned that the x ray was first discovered in 1895 by a German called Wilhelm Roentgen. X rays are

This week we have been busy writing warning stories in English. During Talk for writing, we learnt a story called ‘The Canal’. We performed the story, looked at the sequence of the story and we did some short burst writing. We created our own warning stories based on going to

This week we have been busy finding out more about our enquiry, How is my body amazing? We have talked about the function of the skeleton and we have discovered that a skeleton is needed for protection, support and movement. Did you know that the ribcage protects our delicate internal

Happy New Year! It has been wonderful to welcome Year 3/4 back to school after the Christmas break. They have settled back into school life really well and we are looking forward to some more excellent learning this term. We are being scientists this term and are investigating the big

The Christmas break is finally here! We hope you all get a chance to rest and recoup over the Christmas break – have a wonderful holiday! In year 3/4 here is some of our learning and some other activities we have been up to this week… Christingle We

This week we have been finishing off our project work by writing persuasive arguments either for or against the Vikings being vicious. We used our writing to help us carry our a debate on this topic as well…