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Monthly Archives: January 2020
‘Celebrating’ in Nursery
In RE we have been discovering what a celebration is and how people celebrate. We talked about a memorable celebration and drew a picture. The children remembered special birthdays, Baptisms, Christmas and New Year’s Eve. We looked at the different elements of a celebration and discussed how we find out about a celebration – (someone…… Continue Reading
The Keilty Challenge…Year 6…24th January
The Keilty Challenge has been a feature of Y6 from time immemorial. Points are awarded for many praiseworthy actions: kindness, brilliance, achievement, progress, exceptional intelligence, clever vocabulary etc. The class aim to earn – between them – over 32 points in a week. When this target was first met (a difficult enough feat) the agreed…… Continue Reading
School Council Launch ‘Friendship Fridays’
If you have a niggling worry (you may have popped one in our worry box recently…) then let us help you! Come along to one of our Friendship Fridays every fortnight starting this Friday, January 31st from 12:30 – 1:00pm in Y3 classroom. You will be able to share your worries and we will offer…… Continue Reading
Y3 Investigate Numbers Like Pythagoras
Last week, we all took part in some Pythagorean challenges and investigated square numbers, just like the ancient Greek, Pythagoras. Following these investigations, we looked at a variety of statements by ancient Greek thinkers and had to prove whether they were correct or incorrect. Come and take a look at our work:… Continue Reading
Y3 say ‘WeDo’ to Building Mechanisms
Year 3 have been building a series of mechanisms (gearing mechanisms, cam mechanisms, lever mechanisms, etc.) using LEGO. They then learned how to program these mechanisms to move using WeDo. They learned so much that they were able to apply their computing knowledge to building dancing birds, moving crocodiles, goal kickers, dancing people and drumming…… Continue Reading
Y3 Investigate like Archimedes!
As part of our Ancient Greece Creative Curriculum topic, Y3 have been learning about that great inventor, scientist, mathematician, philosopher and astronomer, Archimedes and how taking a bath led to Archimedes’ great idea – Eureka! For the story of how he used this idea to help the King of Sicily solve the problem of his…… Continue Reading
Weekly Notice 27th January 2020
Weekly Notice 27.01.2020 The latest edition of the Weekly Notice, is now available for you to download and read at your leisure. It will tell you everything that is going on at school this week…… Continue Reading
Maths in Year 5
Year 5 have been learning all about measurement in Maths. They have been using lots of practical equipment to get to grips with length, mass and capacity. They have also been practising converting between different units of measurement. First, they explored ‘What is 100g?’ In this lesson, they estimated, weighed and calculated the weight of…… Continue Reading
Iona Star 24th January 2020
Friday 24th January The latest edition of the school newsletter, The Iona Star, is now available for you to download and read at your leisure …… Continue Reading
