Chandra, Sputnik & Voyager Class Blog

Happy Easter! Well it has certainly been a very busy end to the Spring Term. Our enquiry project, ‘How is my body amazing?’ has come to an end. On Wednesday morning, we were delighted to welcome Jupiter and Pluto children into our classrooms to share our learning. It was great

This week as part of our enquiry, we had a visit from Jenny the dental nurse. She explained the important of keeping and teeth and gums healthy.           We have all been busy writing up explanations about human digestion which we will be publishing

We have all been delighted that the sun has shone this week. It makes such a difference being able to use the outside space. In science this week, the children have been continuing their work on digestion. We carried out three different experiments to see what happens during the digestive

Happy Red Nose Day! Thank you for all of your contributions towards this fund raising event. It was great to see so many children sporting red tops, noses etc. This week in English the children have writing suspense stories. They have set their stories in a variety of settings including

In English we were thinking about a writing technique called Tell not show. This is a writing tool that authors use to help with characterisation and to create suspense. We thought about how we use our face and body to show an emotion.    

  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