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• Thursday 21 November 2024 Year 3 / 4 Trip We had an amazing day at Compton Verney and we were so lucky with the weather! Linda took us on a journey through the woods to our Stone Age camp where we made wattle and daub fences by weaving willow, made stone age bread by grinding barley with rocks and mixing with oats and water, built shelters, explored a cave of artefacts and lit our own fires with flint and steel (not quite as the Stone Age people would have done it with flint and flint!). We had a great day getting a taste of what life would have been like all those thousands of years ago.
• Thursday 21 November 2024 Maple trip to Compton Verney We had an amazing day at Compton Verney and we were so lucky with the weather! Linda took us on a journey through the woods to our Stone Age camp where we made wattle and daub fences by weaving willow, made stone age bread by grinding barley with rocks and mixing with oats and water, built shelters, explored a cave or artefacts and lit our own fires with flint and steel (not quite as the Stone Age people would have done it with flint and flint!). We had a great day getting a taste of what life would have been like all those thousands of years ago.
• Wednesday 20 November 2024 Children in Need Year 3 had a really 'odd' day Friday in aid of Children in Need.
• Friday 15 November 2024 Remembrance Service On Monday 11th November, Year 6 lead a Remembrance Service where they read aloud In Flanders Fields by John McCrae. After this, the whole school took part in a two-minute silence to show their respects for the service and sacrifice of all those that have defended our freedoms. Year 6 then visited the war memorial in the town where they laid a wreath and took more time to reflect.
• Wednesday 6 November 2024 Music Workshop Chestnut thoroughly enjoyed their music workshop this afternoon with Nick and Abbie from Cheltenham Festivals. We learned all about how saxophones are played and the differences between Nick's tenor saxophone and Abbie's soprano saxophone.
• Tuesday 5 November 2024 Mysteries of the Musiverse Maple thoroughly enjoyed their music workshop this afternoon with Nick and Abbie from Cheltenham Festivals. We learned all about how saxophones are played and the differences between Nick's tenor saxophone and Abbie's soprano saxophone.
• Monday 4 November 2024 Harvest Service The children did a fantastic job at leading our Harvest Service, I was really proud of all of their efforts, and how well they presented themselves; I could hear every word they said!
• Sunday 3 November 2024 Oak Palaeontolgists Last Thursday, Oak Class learnt about the work of palaeontologists. We watched a video of a palaeontologist at work and then used tools to painstakingly uncover hidden bones in our sandpit, piece together dinosaur skeletons and Year One thought about what tools might be useful for someone who discovers fossils. We had a lot of fun.
• Thursday 24 October 2024 Rocks and fossils The thumbnail has been assigned to the news item, and for convenience also added to the body here:
• Friday 18 October 2024 Fantastic Forces To enhance children's knowledge and understanding of forces they have been working scientifically to investigate friction, air resistance and water resistance, including their effects on objects.
• Thursday 17 October 2024 Maple Life Ed We had a great Life Education session with Tom. He taught us all about what’s inside our bodies and what we need to stay alive (water, oxygen, sleep, food and exercise). We then thought about the things that we needed to stay happy and healthy and the importance of time to connect with others. We met Harold the giraffe and went with him on a screen free day with his friends to the theme park. At the theme park, we blasted off on a rocket to space where we met a strange race of aliens where all of them were exactly the same. We decided that life is much better when everyone is unique and when we celebrate our differences!
• Tuesday 15 October 2024 Reception - 'Three' Walk Reception went on a 'three' walk last week to find as many representations of the number three as they could. Here are some of the threes they found. I think you'll agree that they did an amazing job!
• Saturday 12 October 2024 Oak Class Meet Harold the Giraffe Oak Class had a great time in the Life Education tent on Thursday afternoon. They learnt about how to stay healthy, what's hiding underneath our skin and got to meet Harold the Giraffe and give him advice about what to do if he feels sad.
• Thursday 10 October 2024 Life Education session Willow class thoroughly enjoyed their session in the Life Education tent. We loved meeting Harold again and found out how to keep ourselves healthy and happy.
• Thursday 10 October 2024 Making Fossils Our topic this term is 'Dinosaurs' and we have been finding out about the famous fossil hunter, Mary Anning. Her story inspired us to make our own fossils using salt dough and we were very proud of our results.
• Sunday 29 September 2024 Oak Class - Exploring the Garden We had a wonderful science afternoon exploring our garden. Year One really enjoyed showing the new Reception children around, and pointing out the features. To top it all, it wasn't raining!!
• Thursday 26 September 2024 Maple investigate rocks In Science, this week, we have been investigating the hardness of rocks. We scratched our rocks with a finger nail, a 2p coin and a nail and recorded our results using the Mohs’ scale. We then ordered our rocks from hardest to softest.
• Wednesday 25 September 2024 Trip to The Real Outdoor Xperience On Tuesday 24th September, Alder Class visited The Real Outdoor Xperience at South Cerney lakes where the children took part in kayaking and Sky- Line. During the Sky-Line the children had to negotiate an aerial adventure featuring 14 obstacles spread across two levels. The children were certainly made to challenge themselves and for many they had to conquer their fear of heights! In kayaking the children were set various challenges such as navigating their kayaks both forwards and backwards as well as trying to stand up and avoid falling in the water!
• Thursday 19 September 2024 Maple football with Rob Maple have made a fantastic start to their football lessons with Rob. This week we have been learning how to control the ball with different parts of our feet.
• Wednesday 18 September 2024 Welcome to Year 3!
• Wednesday 3 July 2024 Oak - Summer Sewing The children have been creating some very delicious looking ice creams using their embroidery skills. All the adults have been blown away by just how much perseverance and skill they demonstrated. I'm sure you'll agree that Oak Class did a fabulous job.
• Wednesday 19 June 2024 In the Net Year 4 had a super afternoon at Stow-on-the-Wold Primary School watching an interactive play, ‘In the Net’, presented by the Alter Ego Company. The play told the story of Dotty, a 7 year old girl, who got a new iPad for her birthday. She spent the day online making a new best friend called Jenny, posting information and pictures about herself, exploring websites and being unkind to a girl called Ava on ‘FriendsFace’.
• Wednesday 12 June 2024 Oak -Sunscreen Investigation Last week we had a visit from Mrs Lewis, a science teacher from the Cotswold School. She brought some exciting resources for us to use. We were given a beaker each, then had to count out ten special beads into our beaker. We covered the beaker in cling film then spread either nothing, moisturiser or sun-cream over the clingfilm. Mrs Lewis then shone UV light from a special torch through the clingfilm onto the beads. After ten seconds, we took the clingfilm off and looked at our beads. Some had turned dark purple and pink! We had to count how many beads had changed colour. In the beakers covered in nothing or moisturiser, approximately 7 beads had changed colour. In the beakers covered in sun-cream, only 1 or 2 had changed . It was very obvious how important it is to wear sun-cream.
• Tuesday 11 June 2024 Sunscreen Experiment We were very lucky to have two teachers from The Cotswold School come into our school to perform an experiment with the children. We were investigating how to protect our skin from ultra violet light. We used special beads that changed colour when they were exposed to sunlight and created a skin-like barrier using cling film. We then covered the cling film with either moisturiser, sunscreen or nothing at all. When an ultra violet light was shone on each pot, we counted how many beads changed colour. Everything was kept exactly the same to make sure it was a fair test. The results were very clear- we need to wear sunscreen, even on a cloudy day.
• Tuesday 11 June 2024 Clay snails The children had a lovely time making clay snails. They coiled the clay to make the shell and attached it to the body. When the clay had dried, they painted their snails.
• Wednesday 5 June 2024 Museum of Natural History Oxford To link to our Science unit, Evolution and Inheritance, the children explored how Alfred Russell Wallace and Charles Darwin came up with their solution to the problem of how evolution occurs; looked at the driving forces of natural selection and fossil history and considered the evolution of vertebrate life. The children had a fantastic day exploring the museum!
• Wednesday 5 June 2024 Oak - Slimbridge Visit We had the most amazing day at Slimbridge with a fun learning session and plenty of time to explore. The children were an absolute pleasure to be with all day.
• Wednesday 8 May 2024 Athletics in the sunshine! What a gorgeous morning for outdoor P.E.! Maple have been working hard on their throwing, jumping (standing long jump, triple jump and speed bounce) and running. We have been recording our distances and times and trying to improve our PBs!
• Wednesday 8 May 2024 Oak - Geography in the Garden Oak Class have been looking at aerial views of the school garden using Google Earth. We were surprised how little you can see from a bird's eye view - just lots of trees. We decided to go to the garden to see what you can see from a ground level view and used observational drawings to record our favourite things.
• Monday 29 April 2024 Language Day at The Cotswold School We really enjoyed our trip to The Cotswold School for the Year 4 Language Day! We had a carousel of activities where the Year 10 students were the teachers. We learnt lots of new Spanish and German vocabulary for topics such as numbers, colours and school subjects. Some of us played Boules, some of us built Eiffel Towers out of spaghetti and all of us learnt how to Salsa dance! The organiser of the day commented on how beautifully behaved and polite the children from Northleach were. Well done, Year 4!
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