As part of our Forces topic in Science, Year 5 were tasked with a challenge: to design, build and test a parachute that would effectively stop an egg breaking if dropped from a height. We did this in order to test our knowledge and understanding of air resistance. The...
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Year 3 Weekly Round-up
Year Three have been busy creating Golden Tickets to invite people to the Chocolate Factory. They wrote detailed descriptions about what to expect during the factory tour. We wonder who the lucky finders will be....?! Years 2 & 3 took part in a Personal Best...
Year 4’s Storytelling Week Comic Strip
Year 4 collaborated with other year groups to share great stories this week. Check out our comic strip...
Year 3 – Weekly Round-up WB 03/02/20
We have been creating freeze frames from the chapter, 'The First Two Finders' in Charlie and Chocolate Factory. Year Three thought carefully about the body language, facial expressions and height of each of the characters. Whilst creating these freezes they imagined...
Year 3’s Visit to London Tradition
As part of our Inventors topic, Year Three went on a visit to London Tradition which is a coat factory. They were shown the original coat designs and then how each individual part is created. Year Three particularly liked the variety of fabrics and all the machines...
Year 5 and 6’s Visit to Deptford Creek 31-01-20
A great day was had by all at the Creekside centre in Deptford on Friday - we took a muddy walk up the river Ravensbourne, went river dipping to find out about the life under the surface of the water and learnt about the amazing history of one of the Thames’s biggest...
Year 5 & 6’s River Models
On Monday's beautiful sunny afternoon Year 5 and 6 made models of rivers in the playground using sand and water. The aim was to recreate the life of a river from source to the ocean in miniature. When we had finished labelling the different features we poured water...
Year 3 Feel the Force
Year 3 have been experimenting with forces. They discovered that all forces are pushes and pulls and came up with a brilliant list of imperative verbs to demonstrate this.
Year 4 Manage Money
Year 5 – Rivers and Quicksticks!
Year 5 have been delving deep into their rivers topic in geography and having a great time in P.E playing ‘Quicksticks’ hockey!