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In DT we have been developing our cutting, folding and fixing skills in order to make packaging for our Christmas biscuits. We also learnt about different colour schemes to develop a style for our ‘brand’ and used these colours to decorate our boxes. 
 

Over the last three weeks, we have been working hard on developing our printing skills, to create our Christmas cards for this year. We used polystyrene blocks to cut out our basic design. We then used special printing ink to evenly coat our blocks before transferring the design onto paper. 
The…

Today was the Year 3&4 Christmas party and we had a great time. We played some old favourites like musical statues and pass the parcel.  We also played some new games like Hoops. “You can’t eat Johnny Smartie” was a favourite again!

Today was the Year 3&4 Christmas party and we had a great time. We played some old favourites like musical statues and pass the parcel.  We also played some new games like Hoops. “You can’t eat Johnny Smartie” was a favourite again!

Mrs Helen Bowden from Lancaster Music Centre joined us for a special Music Assembly today. Look out for information about the Centre in this week’s newsletter.

We investigated the different properties of materials. We looked to see if they were bendy, waterproof or transparent.

This morning, we began making our decorations with the help of a returning Mrs Brown! 
 

This week we made our calendars. We found out that in each season the leaves are different colours. 

During the last half term, Year 4 have been practising skills to make pictures move. Over the last two days, they have put these skills to good use making a Christmas themed pop up picture. 

This week, Year 6 have been making a start on constructing their shelters, which they have been designing. The task is to design and make a shelter to house a family of four playmobile people, which must withstand wind, rain and pressure from above. Today, we focussed on our cutting skills, using…

This afternoon, Year 2 and Year 3 had a great, interactive lesson from Niscu all about the Christmas story.

Last week, Year 6 had a very busy week, preparing for the Christmas Fair. They were split into six groups and each loaned £15 by SCOT4ALL. Each group had to work as a team to design and make items to sell at the fair with the aim of making a profit to be given back to SCOT4ALL.

Each group had a…