6 Mar

World Book Day- The Day the Crayons Quit! En français... Rébellion chez les crayons !

Bonjour mes amis!

Today across school, the children have been celebrating World Book Day by sharing Drew Daywalt's wonderful story- The Day the Crayons Quit.

In Year 6, we wrote letters back to the crayons persuading them to return to us by telling them how much we loved each colour and by…

6 Mar

Book day in Year 3

Today was Scotforth’s book day which was based around the story The Day the Crayons Quit. We wrote a letter to the beige crayon to cheer it up and we made some animations using Scratch.

 

3 Mar

DT 3D nets

Today, we have been learning about 3D nets as part of our DT work on packaging. 
 

2 Mar

Water resistance

We have been making different shapes from plasticine to investigate water resistance. We looked at the shapes of boats and fish to make different streamlined shapes that travelled faster through the water. 

2 Mar

Be the Change - Go Green!

Today Year 5 and 6 went to Lancaster University for a “Be the Change Day” focusing on the environment.
This was organised by the students of the university and took place on campus.

We learnt all about food miles, how fruit and vegetables are grown and transported and the impact of plastics on…

28 Feb

Be the Change Day (Go Green!) Year 5

Today Year 5 and 6 went to Lancaster University for a “Be the Change Day” focusing on the environment.
This was organised by the students of the university and took place on campus.

We learnt all about food miles, how fruit and vegetables are grown and transported and the impact of plastics on…

27 Feb

Worship led by the Worship Team

This week the Worship team led our whole school Worship on Lent. 

27 Feb

Year 1 Live with Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler

We were very lucky to have Julia Donaldson read a traditional tale as part of our literacy topic this week. We also had an illustration masterclass from the famous illustrator, Axel Scheffler.

27 Feb

Our Exciting Visitors!!

Thank you to Mrs Kornas who brought in their beautiful pet guinea pigs. We learnt all about how they care for them , what they eat and where they sleep. We all had the option to give them a stroke too! 

27 Feb

Amateur Animators!

Today we have been designing our characters, writing the plot, and practising our stop-motion animation skills in groups. Within our groups, we each had an important job- controlling Noah, controlling the raindrops, controlling the animals, and camera-person!

We found what we did well within…

24 Feb

Colour Mixing

We explored mixing the primary colours to make secondary colours. We also discussed how we could make them lighter and darker.