Hokusai Class Learning Story
Paper Sculpture
How many different ways can you sculpt with paper? Rolling, cutting, tearing, folding... Hokusai class...
Mmm… Anglo Saxon stew
On Tuesday afternoon the children in Hokusai learned all about Anglo Saxon food as part of their new topic work. The recipe was for a vegetable and barley stew. The vegetables were prepared and Miss Begum took the cooking pot to the school kitchen. We eagerly awaited...
Tom Gauld the Illustrator
Tom Gauld illustrated the version of the Iron Man by Ted Hughes that year 3 have been learning about as their topic this half term. Tom wrote to year 3 answering some questions on his inspiration for his Iron Man illustrations, and what it is like to work as an...
Problem of the Week
Have a go at home and put your answers in the box outside Hirst Class. Good Luck!!...
Afternoon at the Idea Store
This Monday, the children in Year 3 went on an exciting trip to the local Idea Store in Chrisp Street Market. Parents of children in 3B were invited along so that they could sign up for an Idea Store card during the visit. The children enjoyed listening to a story and...
Easter Hat Parade
Today was our Easter Hat Parade and the hats were magnificent! We all enjoyed watching the children (and some adults) parade with their Easter Hats made from recycled materials. All of the children worked really hard on them at school and at home and there were some...
End of another term!
Wow! Only a few days away from the end of our second term in Year 3.. and what a term it's been! We've been on a fantastic trip to the Photographers' Gallery in Oxford Circus, where we learned to make Camera Obsucuras. Did you see your child's one at home? Ask them...
Sports Relief Dance-a-thon
Dance-a-thon Sports relief this year was a big success with all children taking part in a class dance-a-thon to help raise money for the charity and have a go at dancing their way to becoming dance-a-thon king or queen of their class. Thank you for all your donations...
Year 3 Trip to the Photographer’s Gallery
On Tuesday 15th March, Hokusai and Hepworth classes went on an exciting trip to the National Photographer's Gallery in Oxford Circus. We had a look at some photographs and described what we could see. Then there was an exciting workshop where we made a camera obscura....
Maths Problem Solving Workshop
A huge thank you for all the parents/carers and family members, who participated in the workshop this morning. It was fantastic to see so many of you accepting the challenges presented and working together as teams to solve the problems. Well done to the Year 6...
Shadow Puppet Family Workshops
Today was our third project workshop with David from Tower Bridge and Peter, a puppeteer from Wilton's Music Hall. We read through our script, and started to make our character puppets. Our story is really coming to life...
Newsletter February 2016
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Tower Bridge and Wilton’s Music Hall shadow puppet project
We are very excited about having been chosen to take part in a special project with Tower Bridge and Wilton's Music Hall. It's a family learning project, where children and their parent/ carers work together to make a collaborative film using shadow puppets. Our film...
Roman pots
Year 3 are having lots of fun learning about the Romans at the moment, and in art we looked at Roman pottery. We made our own coil pots, and learnt how to join clay together by rolling, scoring and using a slip. ...
Attendance and Punctuality 7 January
Attendance: Year 1 B - Goldsworthy class (96%) Year 3 B - Hokusai class (100%) Punctuality: Year 2 A - Tagore class Year 6 B - Peggy Angus class
