Year Six Computing
Year Six have been developing their programming skills using Scratch. We started by developing a stage, then a sprite to create the beginnings of a Space Invaders game!
History Club
We have some enthusiastic historians at DS! We've looked at British military medals and started designing our own using clay. We found that a lot of them are cross-shaped, to emphasise Britain's Christian heritage and the cross as a symbol of hope, peace and courage.
Team Challenges in Year 5!
Year 5 had a great morning of team challenges in PE! #enjoy #embrace
Writing what happened next to the Big Bad Wolf #independentwriting
Year 3 have been busy this week as they have planned and then written the continuation of our story, The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs. They are so proud of their writing about what happened next to the Big Bad Wolf.
Pre School- Egg experiment
This week we have been learning about Humpty Dumpty. After discovering that all the kings horses and all the kings men couldn't put humpty together again, we decided that we needed to create something to protect him, just incase he fell off the wall again. We spoke about the different materials we…
Year Six Wet Break!
Despite the rubbish weather, Year Six had a blast just playing board games, playing snap and even twister with each other! Oh how we've missed these days!
Year 1- PSHE- Feeling Proud!
What a lovely PSHE lesson we had! The children embraced the learning and enjoyed sharing special moments when they felt proud of themselves.
They all made Mrs Bentham proud!
#embrace
Year Six Science Investigation
Year Six have been planning a science investigation into how microbes grow, and how we can alter the conditions that fungi can grow in.
We discussed the possible conditions we could subject fungi to, and then set out our constants and variables.
We'll check back on our investigation over the…
Year 5 - Designing Houses!
Today, Year 5 have #enjoyed exploring the visual art from the architect Huddertwasser. We took inspiration from the artist and started work on our own house designs.
Zones of regulation
Today we spoke about our feelings. Our teachers came into school dressed as a different emotion. We created our very own zones of regulation using the characters from the Inside out film. We spoke about scenarios that might make you feel happy, sad, angry and worried. We then made some sensory…
Year 4 - Spelling Partners
Year 4 always #enjoy working with their partners in Spelling. Today we completed our dictation, and checked our partners spellings of words using the prefix auto-
Year 2 - Comparing Objects
Year 2 have been tackling some comparison questions in Maths this week, using some brand new symbols to show greater than, less than and equal to!
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