Chandra, Sputnik & Voyager Class Blog

Oracy Focus Week This week we had a school wide focus on our oracy (spoken language) skills. On Wednesday, we marked this by holding ‘No Pens Wednesday’. This is an annual day of spoken language activities that takes place in schools, colleges and early years settings across the country. The

Odd Socks Day This week was anti-bullying week. To raise awareness of this we all came to school wearing odd socks on Monday. Thanks to all that took part, it was good to see so many odd socks walking around school!         Maths We have been

We’ve had another busy week in Year 3/4 this week. There have been lots of different events and activities taking place alongside the usual learning. Here are just some of the highlights… Remembrance Day We had a remembrance day assembly on Wednesday and  as part of this, thought about

Our learning this week… We hope you enjoyed a relaxing week over half term. We have started this term by researching Shakespeare as one of the famous people from Tudor times. We enjoyed finding out about his about about his life and the lasting impact he had on the

Over the last two weeks, we have been exploring what it would have been like to be a Tudor monk and what happened to the Mary Rose...

This term we have been finding out about the Tudor period of history. As part of this we became artists and drew portraits of King Henry VIII. We followed step by step instructions, listening carefully, so we could produce our own. We are really pleased with how they have turned out and will add colour and detail to them next.

This week in science we have been investigating how shadows are made. We used torches and a variety of opaque objects to complete our investigation. We learned that shadows are formed when light is blocked by an opaque object. We observed and concluded that the closer a light source is

This week in maths, we gathered data using skittles. Everyone’s data was different and we needed to think for ourselves in order to interpret the data we had in our packets. First we looked at odd and even numbers and needed to decide if our packet had an odd number

Our project in terms 1 and 2 will see us become historians as we step back in time to explore the Tudor period. We’ll start by finding out how the Tudor times began; discover who the Tudor monarchs were, taking a particular look at Henry VIII and his six wives

We hope that you have had a lovely summer break. We are really looking forward to seeing you all return to school as Term 1 gets underway; we have some really interesting learning planned for you all! We know that returning to school after the 6 weeks holiday and such a strange few last