F1 explore heavy and light…

By S Wilkinson4th May 2023

The children have been enjoying exploring the balance scales and seeing which bucket is heavy and which is light. It’s a tricky concept though as sometimes the bucket with the most in is the lightest!

Y4 – KING CHARLES III CORONATION: Coronations – What are they and why are they significant?

By Miss L STEWART4th May 2023

Today, the children in Year 4 explored, discussed and debated a range of photographic sources of evidence with the aim of identifying the significance of historic coronation events for British citizens of the past.

We first explored the Timeline of British Coronations over the last 200 years and utilised our mathmatical skills to determine the length of each British monarch’s reign.

 

In teams, we then explored, discussed  and grouped our sources of evidence in a range of ways:

Photographic evidence
Paintings and portraits
Black and white photographic evidence
Colour photographic evidence
Celebratory images

Comparisons were made in relation to  the validity of photographic evidence with that held within paintings of a  monarch’s coronation. From this,  the children deduced that paintings of historic coronations  may not be a  true representation of the event as some of the detail could have been enhanced or omitted by the artist; whereas the more modern photographic evidence provides a truer representation of each event due to it being recorded instantly.

Further observations of the ways in which British citizens celebrated historic coronations as a nation over time allowed the children to identify that each celebration was similar in that people dressed smartly, a special feast was shared and that communities were decorated with flags and bunting to honour the monarch of their time.

To complete our lesson the children then created a group mindmap to identify ways in which they will celebrate the coronation of our monarch – King Charles III on Saturday 6th May 2023.

From this, we were able to infer why the upcoming coronation of King Charles III continues to be an important event within British society today and deduced that it is an event which many British citizens continue to take pride in celebrating as a nation just like the historic celebrations of past monarchs were for our ancestors.

Y3 are learning about Money

By Miss T LITHERLAND2nd May 2023

In Y3, we have just started our unit about money. In this small step, children consolidated their knowledge of notes and coins from previous years and all did very well. In Year 2, children found that different combinations of coins could equal the same amount and we explored this further by making different amounts using the £ and p notation. We  then worked on comparing different amounts using < > and =.

Times Tables Rock Stars Day!!

By Miss T LITHERLAND26th March 2023

All of Year 3 and 4 are doing so well learning all of their times tables so on Thursday we had a times tables day where we had lots of battles between classes, year groups and the teachers! We all had our own chrome book so we were able to battle away and get better at our times tables!

Tigers Trust came into school and worked with each class on some interactive maths. In partners we had to throw the beanbag into a numbered hoop, times those numbers together then work out the answer. We had a minute to complete as many calculations and then it was our opponents go – we had lots of high scores!

We finished off the day with an amazing disco where LOTS of rock songs were played and we had the chance to do some air guitar and then we had an awards ceremony to crown the winners! Don’t we all look great?