Year 6 Science
In Science this week, Year 6 have been investigating how the brightness of a bulb is affected by the voltage of the cells in a circuit.
Year 2 Learn Charcoal Art
Year 2 have been learning to use charcoal in art by applying pressure to make lighter and darker textures and patterns.
Monkwood Recommends
Miss Wilson’s book recommendation is The Good Bear by Sarah Lean. “It’s the Christmas holidays and Thea is looking forward to spending them with her father. She can tell him all about her plans to become a writer, and maybe he’ll buy her the typewriter she’s been dreaming of. But when Thea arrives in snowy Norway, everything […]
Primary School Climbing Competition 2023
Last week, students from the eight Wickersley Partnership Trust Primary Schools went head-to-head at the WPT Primary Schools Climbing Competition 2023. The competition took place at Thrybergh Academy’s bouldering room, which has a large section of climbing wall with different angles and an additional speed climb wall. Four students from each school were selected to […]
Mr Howlett-Wright’s Book Recommendation📖
Hiya gang!! For this week’s book recommendation, I’ve decided to go with ‘Holes’ by Louis Sachar. “A boy is wrongfully sent to a brutal camp, where the camp warden and her staff force the children in their care to mysteriously dig holes all day long in the desert. Their rehabilitation is questioned, as they think […]
Y2 Portrait Drawing
This half term in art skills, year 2 are learning how to draw portraits! This week we practiced drawing self portraits using pencil. ✏ Look at our amazing pieces of art!
The Very Hungry Caterpillar with FS1 Class 1
The story we have been looking at this week is ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ 🐛🍎 We have been talking about life cycles and learning to care for living things. We have been closely monitoring our own caterpillars every day, we can’t believe how big they have grown. Elena said “It’s not built a cocoon yet!” Here […]
History update from Y6
In History, Year 6 have looked at a variety of sources about why people from the Caribbean migrated to Britain as part of the Windrush generation. We worked together to sort them into which were push factors and which were pull factors.
Year 3’s Roman Workshop
Year 3 have really enjoyed the Roman workshop delivered to them by Laura from the Schools Library Service. They were very interested in the Roman artefacts and couldn’t wait to get dressed up as a Roman soldier.
Y6 History Learning
In history, Year 6 have been looking at how Britain has been shaped by people migrating here over time. We are now going to be focusing on the Windrush generation: why they migrated to Britain, what their experiences were and why the Windrush scandal happened.
