It’s been a dull day today here in Ingleborough, but that definitely hasn’t dampened our spirits! We’ve had another AMAZING day filled with action, laughs and a LOT of mud and water! We’re currently all just getting ourselves ready for dinner, which will be served tonight by our orienteering competition losers…Result!! We may be a …
Update…we’re country dancing pros! Just tucking into our supper of hot chocolate and biscuits then we’re off to bed. We’ll go straight to sleep, we promise…
We’ve arrived safe and well, and have had a fantastic first day so far! After enjoying some much needed pizza and chocolate cake for tea, we’re currently attempting to make our beds and polishing our dancing shoes ready for some country dancing at 7:30! Wish us luck!
Today is World Poetry Day! To help celebrate, School Council have hosted a poetry writing competition. There were lots of amazing entries and they found it incredibly hard to judge! In assembly this morning, 2 winners were announced… Ruby from Herons and Luca from Woodpeckers. A huge well done to everybody that entered! Below are …
Since Sam the Sea Turtle arrived at Tranmere, School Council have been helping him make his way through school to spend some time in every class. This week, he’s made it to Woodpeckers! This afternoon, we’ve spent some time learning all about Sam’s journey (through school and in the sea) and with the help of …
Within our recent Y4 maths lessons, we have been learning to measure, find and calculate the perimeter of regular polygons, irregular polygons and rectilinear shapes. Today, we had a go at a number of different games and challenge activities that helped to test and stretch our learning in this area. We finished off the session …
After a successful term of running ‘Chill Out Tuesday’ for KS2 children, School Council have now swapped their club to allow Reception and KS1 children to attend. So far, it’s been very popular! The children have loved mixing with each other through playing board games, building models, reading, drawing, crafting and dancing (thanks to DJ …
This week in Woodpeckers, we’ve had lots of fun celebrating British Science Week. The theme this year is ‘connections’ which we’ve explored through the book ‘ The Most Important Animal of All’. This book introduces children to the concept of ecosystems, demonstrating just how important the connections between organisms are in keeping our planet running …
As part of our ‘Rocks’ topic in science, we have been learning about how fossils are formed and found in sedimentary rock. Today, we had a go at making our own using bread (sediment / sedimentary rock) sweets (dead organisms) and dictionaries (pressure / gravitational pull).
On Wednesday Year 3 were challenged to measure things first to the nearest cm and then to the nearest mm. We measured lines drawn by our partners and then objects around the classroom. We then used these measurements and compared them using the correct symbols.