Blog by Tag: Hedgehogs

This week in Hedgehogs every is a Gold Star! 

Everyone was celebrated this week in front of the whole school for showing resilience, positivity and being exceptional in their multiplication checks.

Our text for this half term in English in 'Julius Caesar', which  links nicely to our history knowledge of the Romans. We began the week by looking at an extract from the play and acting it out as a class. The children took their roles very seriously! 

We then spent some time planning and…

We have had lots of fun making marble runs during our STEM day! We have been competing to make the slowest marble run. We have worked in teams to create some AMAZING marble runs and the children are very proud of themselves. Well done team Hedgehogs, you have…

In PSHE this week we explored group dynamics. We understood that there are people who take on roles of leaders or followers in a group and when is the appropriate time to take on these roles. We then applied this knowledge of group dynamics in our art lesson where we created prints as a…

This week we have been learning all about the first emperor of Rome - Augustus. We began by exploring how Octavian (Augustus), Julius Caesar's nephew, defeated Mark Anthony and Cleopatra and how cunning he was as he grew in power.

In Science we have been exploring volume. In particular, this week we have been describing the relationship between vibration strength and volume. We then presented our results using a bar chart. We changed the way we played a musical instrument and measured the volume, in decibels, from the…

In our science lesson we have been exploring how sounds are heard through different mediums. We have also been researching how whales and dolphins communicate underwater. 

This week in our art session we have been exploring how to draw using tone to create a 3D effect. We have been taking the time to choose which sketching pencils to use to create shadows.

Please take a look at our AMAZING pavilions that we have planned and constructed during our DT lessons this half term.

This week in our maths lessons we have started a new unit about graphs. We have focused on drawing the graphs with a pencil and a ruler and making sure that they are plotted in the correct place. We have also been practicing reading the graphs to retrieve information.

This week during our writing lessons we have been identifying some key features of a journal entry and then we have been planning our own journal entries to retell the story of Our Tower. We have used Showbie to create our plans and we have created a word bank as a class to help us with our…

In geography we have been learning about the river Rhine. We know that the source is in the Alps and that the mouth is in Rotterdam. This lesson, we focused on Rotterdam. We now know what a port is used for and can use the terms 'importing' and 'exporting' correctly. We have also compared some…