Science

This afternoon a mixture of Owls, Doves and Kestrels have been doing a range of experiments and investigations.  We were using chromatography to split the colours in felt tips to see what colours  had been mixed together to make that colour felt tip. We also looked at how the coloured sugar…

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Earthquake structures

In Owls we have been studying all about earthquakes.  We have learnt that there are 2 scales used for measuring the intensity of earthquakes.  The first is called the Richter scale which is recorded on a seismograph and the second is called the Mercalli scale.

We had a go at creating a…

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Owls Outdoor Homework

Part of Owls homework this week was to go on an outdoor walk and observe the things that you see at this time of the year. Below is a selection of the photos that children sent into school.  

What did you notice about the outdoors at this time of year?  Is this season your favourite?  Why/why…

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Class Assembly

Well done to all of the children for their participation in our class assembly on Advent.

What did you learn about advent from our class assembly?

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Writing with Dan Worsley

Last week we had the fantastic experience of having local author Dan Worsley join us in our class.  He taught us how he plans, edits and writes his stories and how he magpies ideas from his other writings.  

Dan gave us the challenge of changing the end of one of his short stories Blown Away.…

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Owls Poulton Field Trip

This morning we walked to Poulton and on our route we looked out for different human and physical features.  We produced a map of Poulton town centre identifying the different shops and land use in the town centre.  Also, we went into St Chad's church yard and sketched the church building using…

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Y3/4 PE

This afternoon we have been doing athletics.  We were doing relay races and circuits looking at invasion.  We also learnt a new throw today, a push throw and practiced this by playing a game of Push Golf.

Can you tell me what area of athletics where they use a push throw?

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Folk Tales

Today, we have started to learn about Traditional/Folk Tales.  We were able to come up with a super list of different tales that we knew and then we retold them.

What is your favourite traditional tale and why?  Can you tell us who the characters are and the plot of the tale?

We hope you…

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Dan Worsley Interview

It was great to have Dan Worsley in school today.  We were able to interview him so that we can write his biography.  Hopefully we'll be able to share our biographies when we've finished writing them.  We asked him a lot of questions and found out some funny moments from his childhood.  

What…

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Owls First Swimming Session

Yesterday we went for our first swimming session.  We had a great time and some of the children who were a little bit frightened off the water enjoyed themselves once they got in!

We look forward to the rest of our swimming sessions this term.

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Stone Age tools by Owls

For our history lesson we became stone age humans. We had to imagine that we were back in time-back to Stone Age! As stone age humans we made tools. As a class we went outside to gather different materials that stone age humans would use. We worked together and created our tools with stones,…

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Owls Visit Dave and Dotty

Dave and Dotty have come to visit Little Chicks today. Owls were very lucky to go and visit Dave and Dotty. The children were really quiet and mature whilst being around these 2 week old lambs. They asked some super questions. What a fantastic experience!

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