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• Year 5 DT

  Thu 10 Nov 2022

  Yesterday in Year 5, we had a DT day with a focus on bread making. We tasted different breads from around the world, designed our own bread and then made it. We also evaluated our bread creations and designed the packaging for them. After seeing Year 5 action, Paul Hollywood may have some competition!

  

• Year 2 Great Fire of London Workshop

  Fri 04 Nov 2022 Mrs Harvey

  On Friday Year 2 were lucky enough to be visited by Ben from Treehouse Theatre. We went back in time and learnt all about the Great Fire of London. To begin the session, Ben re-enacted the events of Sunday 2nd September 1666. The children were very excited by this and it was interesting to hear the various things that happened when the fire broke out. We then took part in a workshop where we had to pretend to be someone who was alive during the Great Fire. The children chose jobs that they would have had during those times. Can you remember what your job was?  They had to think carefully about what items they might save from the fire and how they would feel about all those that they had left behind. They then acted out trying to put out the fire, and realised what a tricky job this would have been in 1666. To end the workshop they had to discuss as a team how they could pay the ferry to take them across to the other side of the Thames. The session was a great success and the children gained a great deal of knowledge from it. 

   

  

• Year 3 Victorian Day

  Fri 04 Nov 2022 Year 3 team

  Today Year 3 travelled back in time to experience what life would have been like for a Victorian school child. Boys and girls had to line up separately and of course they had to pay for their education. They entered their dark, dull classroom and had to sit in rows and rise every time an adult entered the class. Boys and girls completed separate activities, including sewing for girls and gardening for boys. If children found themselves in the pit, they were not offered any help or resources which the teachers found very hard!! Other activities of the day included: drills, Geography map work, History mnemonic, listening to traditional fairytales, reciting times tables, singing the National anthem, reciting the Lord's prayer and writing on slate boards with chalk (right hands only!). We reflected on the day during circle time at 2:45 and recognised we are super fortunate not to have had to experience Victorian education!