DT: Fruit Cobbler

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This term we have made a fruit cobbler.

We used a number of skills to produce our desserts, which included weighing ingredients, measuring out liquids, rubbing in the butter and flour to make the dough and timing the cook.

Years 3 & 4 DT

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Year 3 and 4 Cave Art

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Year 3 and 4 have spent this term looking at examples of Cave art dating back to the stone age. After looking at these examples the children designed and created their own cave paintings to tell a story of a hunt. They used a range of materials and techniques such as crayons, charcoal and paints…

Years 3 & 4 History Art and Design

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Year 3/4 Iron Age Experience day

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This week Year 3 and 4 had a vist from Matt Russell an Iron Age expert. The children were engaged in the history of the Iron Age through hands on activities where they held replica and ancient tools and weapons. The children also took part in warrior training and shield design and…

Years 3 & 4 History

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Olympic Sports Week

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What an amazing week we have had, we had a great start to the week on Monday when we lit our Olympic flame.

During the week we have participated in many sports including Tag Rugby, Year 5 & 6 ran a 26 minute mini- marathon, Tennis, Archery and Fencing!

On Friday we had a fantastic Sports…

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Fairground Fun with Sparrows

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Across the last two weeks, Sparrows have been working hard to investigate Fairground rides allculminating in them creating their own. They have evaluated existing rides, used circuits and construction materials to investigate pulleys, built prototypes, designed their own version and built…

Years 5 & 6 Science DT Design Technology

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STEMazing visit for KS2

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Today, Key Stage 2 had the pleasure of a team of inspirational women from STEM.

These inspiration women opened the children's eyes to the wonder of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths through an assembly on STEM Superheroes and individual class workshops on Exploring…

Years 5 & 6 Years 3 & 4 Science Maths Design Technology

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Girls Football Team In New Premier League Kit

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The girls football team continue to play in this seasons Swindon PSFA Girls cup competition in their new kit. 

PE

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Book Week 2024

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This year for Book Week our focus text was The Wizard of Oz.

We had so much fun dressing up as the different characters, reading the story and creating amazing pieces of work based on the book. 

 

Reading Writing

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Year 5 & 6 Geography Field Trip

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Year 5 & 6 children walked to the Shaw Ridge leisure complex for a geography field trip.  They were looking at aspects of human and physical geography in relation to culture, the environment and safety.  Having drawn sketch maps, later in the term they will be re-designing the area to improve the…

Years 5 & 6 Geography

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Year 3 and 4 trip to Lydiard Park

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This term year 3 and 4 went on a trip to Lydiard Park to explore and write a recount on when they returned to School. We played in the woods, fed the ducks, explored and played in the park. 

Years 3 & 4

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Year 6 go ice-skating!

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Our Year 6 children are having ice-skating lessons on a Friday afternoon at the Link Centre.  They are making great progress already after only one lesson.  After walking to the Link, exerting themselves on the ice and then walking back to school, they were certainly tired out and ready for a rest…

Years 5 & 6 PE

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Making Tudor Houses

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Seahorses, Turtles and Starfish had so much fun on the first day back of Term 3!

We learnt about what houses were like in London at the time of the Great Fire in the 17th Century.

Then we made our own Tudor houses using cardboard boxes. We even added straw to the rooves!

Years 1 & 2 History

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