What Do You Think?

Philosophy for Children, otherwise known as P4C, is a subject in which children participate in philosophical enquiry. This enhances children’s thinking and communication skills and boosts their self-esteem. There are 4 skills of P4C which are: caring,...

Magnificent magnets!

Magnificent magnets!

Today, Year 3 spent a fun afternoon investigating magnetic fields of attraction and repulsion. We sorted materials in our mini scrapyard into magnetic and non-magnetic and found out that not all metals are magnetic! They have to contain iron, cobalt or nickle in order...

Mechanisms and Machines

Mechanisms and Machines

Today, Kahlo Class took part in a Design and Technology workshop with Stephen Guy where we learnt about different mechanisms and machines. Exploring mechanisms We looked at different inventions which use mechanisms. They were made from wood, cardboard and other...

Shireen Class Camp Fire

Today Shireen Class were making a camp fire. The children collected sticks from the garden, they needed 100, they counted the sticks and found over 30! They then started to rub two sticks together to make the fire. Someone suggested 'We need to use one of those...

What Do You Think?

Philosophy for Children, otherwise known as P4C, is a subject in which children participate in philosophical enquiry. This enhances children's thinking and communication skills and boosts their self-esteem. There are 4 skills of P4C which are: caring, collaborative,...

Doubles or Near Doubles Dice Game

We love learning number facts and strategies. Today we were playing a dice game. We had to roll the two dice in our pairs and decide if it was a double or near double. We could only write down these on our white boards. The winner was the pair with the most double or...

Street Child!

Hello everyone! Welcome back from half-term and into our final half-term of the year. In the last couple of weeks since we have come back we have been doing a lot of exciting things in Lichtenstein class. To kick us off into this half-term we have switched our focus...

Goldsworthy join 365,000 other singers live on Zoom!

This time with 365,000 other children from across the UK! Today we joined Young Voices virtual choir via Zoom, led by Yolanda Brown. We sang Lovely Day arranged by Billy Ocean. It is a great song and we loved learning it! The warm ups were so fun. First we warmed up...