Blog by Lucinda Croston

In History this week, we learned about the Roman army and what the Roman soldiers wore and the weapons they may have carried. We then drew ourselves as Roman soldiers to make a testudo formation on our display board. I think we all make very good Roman soldiers. Click to see more photos.
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On Wednesday we were lucky to have a special 30 minute yoga session. We had a very relaxing time and learned some new yoga poses. 

In year 3 we have been learning to touch type using Purple Mash.

Today we had our skipping workshop with Gabby from Dan the Skipping Man. It was so much fun and we learned some new skills such as rodeo and crossover. Even the teachers got involved and we all got our hearts racing - skipping is hard work! 

This week in English, we are learning about persuasive writing. We discussed how adverts help persuade people to buy certain things and that they use adjectives to make their product sound better than others. We then each got a different chocolate bar to look at, smell and taste and think of…

Our new Reception children have completed their first full week at Heyhouses and have impressed us with how well they have settled in. They have made lots of new friends and have enjoyed playing together in all the different areas of the classrooms. It was a busy week but everyone had lots of…

Today we had a taster fencing session. It was great fun and we learned some new skills and vocabulary.

Today in History, we learned about Boudicca. We then had to draw a picture of her using a description.  

Welcome back! We’ve had a great first day. We started off with assembly. Then we talked about our new life as a junior including going through our planner. We did some English and maths too. This afternoon, we started to paint a self portrait to go on our display, they look fantastic! Remember to…

As part of our ICT unit we have been learning how to make PowerPoints. We used our English notes on bees to help us create a PowerPoint all about bees. Today we showed the rest of our class our PowerPoints and which transitions and animations we had chosen. 

Today, Mrs Croston brought in 2 little paddling pools for us to have some water play and keep cool. First we tried making paper boats. Then we had a raft building competition using multi link cubes. We all had some very innovative ideas! 

Today we took advantage of the sunshine and completed our shadow investigation. We wanted to answer the question, “How do our shadows change throughout the day.” We all wrote our predictions and then went outside to trace around the shape of our partner’s shadow 3 times throughout the day.…