Spreadsheets and budgeting in Y4B for ICT 💻

We planned our own parties, starting with a budget of £1000 (imaginary). The children have been learning how to use a spreadsheet to manage calculations and set up formulas. We have a few changes to make to our spreadsheets as circumstances change, building our skills and confidence.

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Stop motion ICT fun in Y4B 🎬

Turning our storyboards into action with props such as Lego and pipe-cleaners. Film-makers of the future ? Watch this space!

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Y4B explore digital digestion in science 🍽️

Y4B used technology to understand the journey of food inside our bodies​ and how our body is fuelled.

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Willow Tree Warriors – keeping safe online assembly

Today, our fantastic willow tree warriors offered support, Guidance and advice through their first assembly of the year!

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Y6M ICT: Spreadsheets

Y6M made a great start to our spreadsheet learning. We created a table, before changing the font and creating borders. We then used a formula to calculate the total, and […]

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Staying safe online

As part of our PSHE work, year 5 have been focusing on the importance of online safety, and how we can always ensure we are keeping ourselves safe when online.

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Y5 Stargazing Event

Year 5 have had a spectacular evening reaching for the stars ✨ at our stargazing event. Wrapped up warm, we became astronomers as we delved deeper into our science learning […]

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Y4A live spelling

This afternoon we did a live spelling lesson on homophones and near homophones. Well done year 4 for getting involved and using your spelling words in different sentences.

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Y3 E Safety: Think Before you Post

This week in ICT we have started to explore more about E-Safety. We have considered the importance of thinking before posting things online. We created comic books to tell a […]

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Year 3 WTA Oscars entry

We are proud to introduce to you the WINNERS of the best costume award at our annual Willow Tree Academy Oscars ceremony. Children from all of the schools in our […]

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Y3 use Tinkercad Circuits with Mr Harrison

Some of our children become STEM experts this morning in an exciting programming morning with Mr Harrison. They used computer programming to create a light series and algorithms on the […]

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Business Presentations at Enterprise Club

Today at Miss Sealey’s enterprise club it was finally time to share our wonderful business ideas! The children came to the front and presented their ideas which they would like […]

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Angles and Turns in Y3S

Yesterday in Y3S we focused on recognising angles as a description of a turn. The children have worked collaboratively to create a maze, measure angles and find the angles in […]

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Y3S Help Save the Bees!

This morning in Y3S – linking to our topic – Habitats, we have been learning all about bees. We considered the question: Why do we need Bees? Y3S worked collaboratively […]

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Solids, liquids and gases

Y4W have been budding scientists exploring the properties of solids, liquids and gases. We discovered that these materials behave in different ways and some behave in very odd ways indeed!

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Y5 Roscar

Today 11 children from Year 5 started our Roscar film at Winterhill CLC. We used green screen technology and IMovie to piece together the finished product! Fingers crossed it’s a […]

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