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We have been working on our Christmas prints for weeks now, building up the different layers of colours. It has been great to have Naomi to help teach us some of the key skills. Have a look at some of our finished prints. We are really proud of them!

We had so much fun on our Egyptian Day, Mrs Mayor thought our costumes were amazing and we made a scarab beetle bracelet to wear. We played games, baked Egyptian bread, made pyramids and even had a mummy competition! We also wrote our names in hieroglyphics on a cartouche and learnt about the…

What a fabulous day we had at Lancaster Museum.  We crammed a lot into a short space of time.  We spent time exploring all the artefacts in the museum seeing exactly how they have changed over time, we also went into the old school room and learnt a bit about life at school for children in the…

Year 6 Enterprise Week has begun! Our teams have been assigned, our jobs have been agreed and we have begun to plan how we will use the £12 given to each team, in order to make the best profit we can at the Christmas Market next Friday. We have already started making some products. As the week…

We have been completing lots of investigations to learn about friction. We used force meters to move our PE bags across different surfaces and have devised our own experiment to test which surface creates more friction. We have also made paper spinners to test air…

We have been really lucky in Y4 to have the opportunity for an Egyptologist to come into our class. We discussed Egyptian society and together we formed a triangle to show the importance of different jobs. We even got the chance to mummify a body! Have look at our…

During our topic about Ancient Egypt, we have learnt about Tutankhamun. We have looked closely at a photograph showing some of the artefacts that were found in his tomb thousands of years ago and have tried to infer information about Tutankhamun from this. We used our deduction skills just like…

In Year 4, we have been putting key dates in history into chronological order. We have been discussing the terms BC and AD and using these to order key events.

In Year 4, we have been exploring different circuits and making our own. We have been investigating materials that are insulators and those that are electrical conductors.

We had great fun today enjoying lots of healthy activities.

We had a fantastic session with Ali from Pyjama Drama this morning. We had to help the Gruffalo when he had toothache.

We have been looking at everyday materials and sorting them in different ways. We discussed their material name and their properties.