Eagles have been super busy creating a variety of home learning. We have had buildings, coins and information lists relating to our topic of the Great Fire of London.
Eagles have been busy understanding the significance of why we wear poppies. We watched a short film, and discussed why the music made us feel different and created some poppy wreaths. Some people could explain the significance and where these wreaths are placed in Folkestone and shared their knowledge with the class.
On Monday, we had an amazing trip to Dover Museum, to see the world’s oldest seafaring boat, built in the Bronze Age. The children really enjoyed a workshop focused on making a clay recreation of the Bronze Age boat. They also enjoyed a workshop handling different objects from the Stone, Bronze and Iron Age. The … Continue reading
This term we have been creating some amazing homework related to our topic of Pirates. From messages in bottles to wanted posters. Eagles have shown how creative they are by sharing their ideas and encouraging each other.
This week in History, year 4 have been learning about the pyramids in Egypt. The children were challenged to make the strongest and tallest pyramid out of spaghetti and marshmallows. All the children worked incredibly well and there were some great results.
We have been concentrating on re-telling a Greek story using our own ideas. Each group had a story to read and discuss, we then had to re-tell that story in our own words. Some of us chose to be presenters and report the story as it happened, others re-enacted the story. Each group was then … Continue reading
Eagle have competed their training at Folkestone museum to become curators. We visited the museum on three afternoons and last week we were able to choose all the items to go into our display case. We wrote cards explaining what the pieces were and we made some bunting to decorate it. The children have worked … Continue reading
This morning we finished our Topic of Titanic and completed our class reading book; Kaspar Prince of Cats. We celebrated this and the end of term by having afternoon tea in the classroom. We ate scones with jam and cream and drank tea (decaffeinated) some of us drank multiple cups of tea! We all had … Continue reading
This morning we had a Kic Theatre workshop with our friend Ian. As our Topic is all about The Titanic this is what we focused on in the lesson. First we had to think of the designer and how he would have put his ideas on to paper. Then we had to build the ship, … Continue reading
As part of our learning on the history of Folkestone fishing, Owls visited the Folkestone fishing museum. The children walked around the museum and looked at different artefacts. Afterwards they were able to pose questions to two local fishermen. We found out that they have been fishing during storms, caught hundreds of fish and that … Continue reading
Today in owls we have been extremely busy! The children started the day with P.E…
As a class we have been comparing difference materials. We carried out a scientific experiment…
Today it was children from Year 3 that had a turn to visit Pelham House.…
Today we were very lucky to have two members from Music for Schools Foundation visit…
