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This week, we’ve been learning all about earthquakes, volcanoes and the infamous ring of fire in our topic lessons. We also managed to squeeze in some time to analyse how volcanoes are depicted in art, and create some of our own. In maths, we’ve been working hard on learning how to multiply by 10. And …

Below are a few snaps of Falcons beginning their ‘Setting Description’ journey. We’ve been reading The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe for inspiration and have now moved onto creating and sharing a bank of words to up-level our descriptive powers!

Falcons spent the morning getting to grips with the concrete, pictorial and abstract elements of multiplication and division.

Woodpeckers spent the morning learning about states of matter and how to classify materials based on their properties. Toothpaste remains a contentious issue, but I think we got there in the end!

Our new topic this term is Planet Earth. In this topic we will learn about volcanoes, earthquakes, tectonic plates, the ring of fire, rivers and the water cycle. To get started, this afternoon we created our own volcanoes. Later this week, we’ll be going outside to watch some of them erupt. Pictures to follow.

We have completed the ‘make’ stage of our DT cooking project. We measured, weighed, chopped, grated (and finely grated), peeled, snipped, tore, boiled, stirred, drained and garnished. We really enjoyed making and tasting the lovely pasta bake.

Every Friday, well, most Fridays, okay – some days that we were actually in school (and some out to be fair), Falcons took part in a carefully and painstakingly designed lesson to develop the power of problem solving, creative, lateral and very, very outside the box thinking. Alright, we did Taskmaster, but still… if the …

Sticky water!? | 15 Jun 2021

Falcons found out about ‘sticky’ water as part of the Great Science Share for Schools.

But not the Britney version… never the Britney version. Falcons spent the morning getting into the spirit of competition on TT Rockstars. Definitely some speed-metal fans in this class! Blink and you’ll miss it! img_3715-1.mov img_3718-1.mov

Autumn 2nd English Knowledge Organiser 2020 Chocolate Homework Grid 2020 Knowledge Organiser Chocolate 2020 Y4 states of matter KO Autumn 2nd Maths Knowledge Organiser
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