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We had a great time at our Christmas party. We played lots of games and had treats too.

Our finished boxes are all ready for our Christmas biscuits! Here are some of the finished products.

In DT, we have been practising cutting, scoring, folding and using templates. We’ve also investigated Christmas colour schemes and tried different fonts. Today we were able to use all these skills to make our Christmas packages for some tasty Christmas biscuits. We all had to really focus to make…

This morning, Year 4 cooked their own Welsh Rarebit as part of their Design and Technology topic. They chopped the bread into festive shapes, grated the cheese, mixed the ingredients and spread it onto their bread. After a few minutes under the grill, it was ready for tasting. Yum!
 

For a second time this week, Year 6 have been sharing some festive joy with the elderly residents of Scotforth. This afternoon, we visited Ashton Manor, where we sang lots of carols for the residents, then had time for a snack and a chat with many of them. The residents loved our singing and some…

After several weeks of work, Year 6 have finally finished their multi-layer printing project, just in time to turn them into their Christmas cards.

In DT we have been exploring different Christmas colour schemes and fonts for our packaging. Here are some of our designs. Next we will chose our favourite scheme and decorate our cardboard nets. Watch this space!

The Year 6 children joined Mr and Mrs Weatherill for a service in Churnside House this afternoon. They sang numerous carols beautifully. At the end of the service the children spent some time talking to the residents.

Year 6 have been working hard all week, to produce items to sell at the Christmas Fair today. Each group was given an “investment” of £15 by Scot4all, with which to buy resources and every group made a profit from the sale of their various Christmas-themed products. We had to use a huge variety of…

This morning, we were using mirrors to look for lines of symmetry in 2D shapes.

We have been looking at the four seasons and been exploring the changes in our environment during each season. We have linked our calendars and made 4 trees based on each season. 

We are continuing our DT topic of packaging and today we practised the skills of careful cutting and folding.  We learnt to use scissors to score the card so that we could get a really good fold. We made 3D Christmas houses to help decorate our class Christmas tree!