CHRIST’S HOSPITAL YEAR 5 LONDON MATHS CHALLENGE
Monday 10th February, four wonderful mathematicians from Year 5 attended a Maths Problem solving competition at Guildhall. Representing East London and the only school from Tower Hamlets in attendance, our fearlessly focussed problem solvers took on five different...
Wheels & Wings in Yinka
This half term our topic has been wheels and wings. In literacy we have been reading stories about transport. We used our senses as we listened to and engaged with the story 'On the Journey Home from Grandpa's'. 'The car drives down the bouncy bumpy road' 'The train...
Year 4 and the Anglo-Saxons
We had a very busy and fruitful half term! Van Gogh and Riley classes learnt about the Anglo-Saxons through literature, geography, history, art and even design technology. Our cooking activity was a great success and we would love to continue it soon! Please, have a...
Hunting for minibeasts in the local woodlands
by the whole class On our trip we had fun exploring at the Soanes Centre. The Soanes Centre is a type of habitat called a woodland, and the word habitat means an environment that animals and plants call their home. We searched the woodlands for smaller habitats such...
Reading in Year 3
In Whole Class Reading, we read the The Worries by Jion Sheibani. We had lots of fun practising reading and performing a piece of text and considered different voices, volumes, adding actions and sound effects alongside our fluency phrasing in our fluency focused...
Yinka and Robbins Art Exhibition
Thank you to all the families who came to the art studio today to visit an art exhibition of their children's work. Yinka and Robbins classes have been working with artist Amy Leung over the past term as part of this year's Bow Arts project. They have explored...
People who help us!
We are enjoying learning about the different jobs people do. In our class, we have had many role play scenarios; Chinese Restaurant, Vets, Dentist, Doctors and Cafe. This week the children voted for an Ice Cream shop, where they can all take turn to be the helpful...
Nature Comes to Life: Our Visit to the Soanes Centre
This term, we’ve been learning all about habitats—from forests and grasslands to ponds and wetlands. The children have explored the different creatures that live in these environments and how they are perfectly suited to their homes. But nothing beats seeing it all in...
Trip to the Fire Station
On Tuesday afternoon we took a trip down to our local fire station on East India Dock Road as part of our learning about 'People who help us'. The firefighters told us all about how they help the community, from putting out fires to helping people stuck in lifts. They...
Chinese New Year!
We have doing lots of fun activities while learning about Chinese New Year. We made Chinese Lanterns, Used black paint to write some Chinese Calligraphy numbers, Created a paper mache Chinese dragon to do some Chinese dancing and we got to try some fortune cookies and...