Our week in science 💡
Students have been turning off the lights and picking up torches as they continued exploring the topic Light in their science lessons last week. Questions and investigations centred around what material is best for sunglasses and how shadows are formed. The class...
School Council 🗳️
As the school year is well underway, it was time for Hokusai's outgoing student council members to brief the class on the responsibilities and advantages that come with representing the class, and the search began for our new councillors. The class discussed the...
Reading Buddies
The year 1's and year 6's have been reading together on Friday afternoons for several weeks now. Today for the first time the year ones read their guided reading books to their year 6 buddy. They felt a little bit nervous but had a great time reading to the year 6's....
Year 6s Roaming the Poplar Rates Rebellion
On Wednesday we went on a trip to roam places that were involved in the Poplar rates rebellion. In total we walked 3.2km! First we put on our vests and left the school through the office. On our way we encountered St Mary’s and St Joseph's church. Next to the church...
Parts and wholes in Year 1
Today in maths, Goldsworthy class were beginning to learn about parts and wholes. We used fruit to learn about whole objects (where you can see all of it) and parts (where you can't see all of it!). The apple that Ms Dickman hasn't touched is the whole. The apple...
Autumn is here!
This week in Carle Class we have been exploring the changes that come with autumn. We have noticed that the leaves are falling from the trees and changing colour. Some of us used conkers and autumn colours to make autumn pictures outside in the garden.
Year 3’s Design & Technology Day – Part II
Day 2 of our DT project has been all about designing, discussing and building. Lea Jagendorf was back in to assist us in considering why design matters, and we ended with pieces that will be housed in a school exhibit near to our front entrance to welcome you to our...
P4C – is technology always a good thing?
This week in P4C, Kahlo Class used a scene from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for a discussion stimulus....
Forest School Tea
It was a beautiful, warm afternoon for Forest School this afternoon and we began with a sensory walk, feeling the different textures, listening out for any natural sounds (trying hard to block out the man made sounds of the road!) and smelling different plants in the...
Anyone need a seat? 🪑
Recently, year 3 have been using some of their wider curriculum lessons to hone their art and design skills. They've been getting stuck in - and their hands dirty - as they created a piece of furniture for the Festival of Britain. Our works in progress: "First we...