Y6Sn visit Clifton Park memorial
Today Y6Sn walked to our local memorial at Clifton Park. It was quite emotional looking at all the names of the people who lost their lives to save ours. Many […]
Category Archives: History
Remembering our Local Heroes
Year 6M walked to the war memorial in Clifton Park this afternoon to support our work in our topic. The maturity shown by the children was incredible and they showed […]
Y6Sn-WW2 Evacuation Broadcast
As part of our literacy learning, we have developed our oracy skills by creating a formal evacuation broadcast in the style of WW2. We have explored how to use formal […]
Y4A black history month art
This afternoon in Y4A we discussed black history month and the black lives matter movement. We discussed our physical appearance, but also what is on the inside. We used some […]
Historical reading for Black History Month
This week in Y3 we have been exploring our new texts ‘Little Leaders’ which are all about inspirational leaders for Black History Month. We have really enjoyed exploring these during […]
Y4K Black History Month
To mark the beginning of Black History Month, Y4K have learnt about the achievements of Barack Obama, Muhammad Ali and Rose Parks. We then looked closely at ourselves in the […]
Y5- Using our new Atlases to help find space events around the globe 🌍 🚀
Y6St Outdoor Maths Trail
Today in maths, we applied our place value understanding to solve problems that were hidden within the outdoor areas around school. After putting the answers in ascending order, we were […]
Y6Sn Maths meets History
Today in maths we used our logical thinking skills to solve mathematical clues hidden inside historical information to order events on a timeline. We had to work together as a […]
Y6M TinkerCad
Y6M have started designing their Anderson Shelters ready for the 3D printer. We showed fantastic resilience and teamwork.
VE Day Celebrations
To start a weekend of VE celebrations the Y6 team held a Zoom meeting. Some children dressed up in true 1940s style while others made banners and bunting to mark […]
Adding money and decimals at the toy shop!
Today we have been learning to add decimals in Y3. We asked the children to create their own Victorian toy shop – what a creative bunch you all are.
Finding a Steelworker’s bag
Y3 have been very busy in history today exploring the bag of a steelworker. We found coins, his hat, a diary entry and left over sandwich crusts. We developed some […]
Viking Research
This afternoon 5S have been researching and learning about the Vikings. We used iPads to conduct our research and then each group presented what they had learned for the rest […]
Lesson planning
The children worked hard this afternoon researching their given area on the Vikings. They then had to teach the rest of the class what they had found out in preparation […]
Y5 visit to Gainsborough Old Hall
Yesterday we took lots of Y5 children to Gainsborough Old Hall. They loved learning about the Tudors and pretending to work in a real Tudor kitchen!
Tudor timeline and research Y5S
Y5A WTA Oscars winner
Here are some of the cast from Romeo and Juliet performed by Y5A last January at the Civic Theatre. We were very pleased and proud to accept the Award for […]
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 […]