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On Tuesday we had a visit from Rocksteady. We had a whole school assembly where we learnt more about the instruments and what they can sound like, and afterwards a workshop where we created our own KS2 band!

In science, Mrs Dowson has been teaching us all about plants and their lifecycles and in geography we are learning all about plants of the rainforest and how they survive.  Today we drew and painted some hibiscus flowers using watercolour pencils.  We really enjoyed mixing colours and seeing how…

This term we are learning all about tropical rainforests and in our art lessons have been practising making shades and tints of colours. We have been mixing lots of different greens. We will be using these in a rainforest collage later this term.

Year 4 learned all about rivers earlier in the year, but today they had the chance to take a journey down the River Lune, from its source at Newbiggin-on-Lune in Cumbria all the way down to the estuary beyond Glasson Dock. We started off at St. Helen's Well - the source of the Lune - just outside…

We used Audacity to record our voices and edit them. This is part of our podcasting unit. 

Today Year 5&6 went to the Lancaster Town Hall to watch a performance of Peter and the Wolf by Prokofiev. It told the story of a boy called Peter and his encounter with a wolf.  Each of the characters had different instruments representing them. The flutes were birds, the oboe was a duck and the…

Today Year 5&6 went to the Lancaster Town Hall to watch a performance of Peter and the Wolf by Prokofiev. It told the story of a boy called Peter and his encounter with a wolf.  Each of the characters had different instruments representing them. The flutes were birds, the oboe was a duck and the…

The sun shone for Year 6 today as they walked into Lancaster. Having learned about the development of the settlement of Lancaster in class, we followed our maps (both a modern OS map and a 1610 version) down the A6 before walking past White Cross then down Penny Street and Market Street up to the…

Today we started our new geography topic - Wonders of the Rainforest!  We listened to the sound of a tropical rainforest and drew what we could hear or imagine. We then wrote down our ideas about rainforests and what we already know.  We are looking forward to learning lots…

We continued our exploration of nature today by doing a texture touching challenge of natural things in the school grounds. We used words like rough, silky, jagged, downy and serrated to describe the things we felt. We will use some of these words in our nature poems.

Last half term Year 4 looked at two different artists. Friedensreich Hundertwasser and Karla Gerard. Hundertwasser was Austrian and Karla Gerard is American. Hundertwasser was also an architect designing lots of unusual buildings in Vienna.

The children practised their drawing skills by…

We carefully wrote code to make a painting programme. We had to debug as we went along.