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STEM day at Museum of Science and Industry
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On Wednesday 14th November, 30 children from Years 4,5 and 6 enjoyed a fantastic day of learning at the Museum of Science and Industry.
The focus of of the day was STEM, and built upon our learning from last week when we looked at what engineers are and why they are important to us.
We…
Posted by /blog/author/ksalza/page:2 on 14 November 2018
Category: Visits
KS2 Science Day
On Monday 5th November, KS2 had a fantastic day becoming engineers. Our day started off with a visit from the Museum of Science and Industry, where children learned all about the history of engineering, learned what the term meant and took part in a few fun experiments.
They were then…
Posted by /blog/author/ksalza/page:2 on 12 November 2018
Category: Curriculum
Year 3 Science Fun!
This afternoon, 3S and 3D explored different types of skeletons including; endoskeletons, exoskeletons and hydrostatic skeletons.
We had lots of fun investigating the pros and cons of each skeleton and looked at examples of exoskeletons with the help of some shrimp and crabs! We can now…
Posted by /blog/author/ksalza/page:2 on 18 September 2018
Category: Curriculum
Nick Carter Comes to St Clare's
This afternoon the children at St Clare's were lucky enough to have a very special visitor come to our school.
Nick Carter held an inspirational assembly for both KS1 and KS2 and shared his experience of his adventures and challenges that he has been on so far. These included challenges such…
Posted by /blog/author/ksalza/page:2 on 29 June 2018
Category: Curriculum
Year 3 Ancient Greece Day
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On Wednesday 13th June Year 3 had a fantastic fun-filled day learning all about the Ancient Greek's. They had the chance to play traditional Greek board games, apply their mathematics skills with a jigsaw activity, create their own Olympic games as well as research the history of Ancient Greece…
Posted by /blog/author/ksalza/page:2 on 15 June 2018
Category: Curriculum
Royal Wedding Celebration LKS2
Today, St Clare's RC Primary School celebrated the Royal Wedding with lots of fun and activites.
LKS2 spent the afternoon playing traditional garden games such as; tin can alley, hopscotch, ring toss, duck duck goose and parachute games. They also competed amongst each other to create the…
Posted by /blog/author/ksalza/page:2 on 18 May 2018
Category: Curriculum
Year 3 Cinema Trip
This morning, Year 3 visited the cinema as an end of topic treat. They enjoyed the new film ‘Early Man’ which is based upon a Stone Age boy meeting and competing against a Bronze Age football team. They were a fantastic example of our lovely behaviour here at St Clare’s. Myself and Miss Dodman…
Posted by /blog/author/ksalza/page:2 on 13 February 2018
Category: Visits
Stonehenge Paintings
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3S have been learning about the Stonehenge this week in their topic lessons. They then decided to create their own Stonehenge paintings using a blending technique.
Come and see their fantastic work, it is displayed on their classroom window!
Mrs…
Posted by /blog/author/ksalza/page:2 on 31 January 2018
Category: Curriculum
Numeracy Fun
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Today, 3S began their learning of perimeter. This is a new concept to the children and before the lesson they were very unsure about what the term meant.
However, after a very fun and practical lesson which involved children creating 2D shapes on our playground, and measuring the sides of the…
Posted by /blog/author/ksalza/page:2 on 25 January 2018
Category: Curriculum
Bronze Age mining Children
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This week, 3S have moved on with their learning of Prehistoric Britain, and the Stone Age, and are now focusing on the Bronze Age.
To to help the children to imagine what the life of a Bronze Age child miner would have been like, we made a 'mining tunnel' in our classroom which the…
Posted by /blog/author/ksalza/page:2 on 25 January 2018
Category: Curriculum
Stone Age Discovery
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This morning, Mr Knott discovered a Stone Age settlement in our playground! Year 3 are currently learning about the Stone Age and have become experts at recognising the artefacts that were discovered. The children had an assembly this morning after coming across this settlement, and were asked to…
Posted by /blog/author/ksalza/page:2 on 23 January 2018
Category: Curriculum
Year 3 End of Topic Celebration
We would like to say a huge thank you to all of the parents who came to take part in the Year 3 End of Topic Celebration. We had an amazing afternoon sharing our learning so far and finished the afternoon with pizza making and biscuit decorating.
I think we can see from the pictures below that…
Posted by /blog/author/ksalza/page:2 on 19 October 2017
Category: Curriculum