How do we use the toolbar?
Learning to use the Chromebook is very tricky but lots of fun! Today the children learnt how to type capital letters and investigated the bold, italic and underline tools on the toolbar. Great work everyone!
Budding historians
The children became wonderful historians putting clues together to answer the question, “What was life like in Tudor times?” The used their knowledge to make for sale posters for Tudor houses.
KS2 Boccia Festival
On Wednesday this week, we staged the annual Staffordshire Schools boccia festival. With 40 children taking part in the sunshine, from across the KS2 age range, the spectators in attendance were served up a treat of exciting sport. All the children showed outstanding sportsmanship and…
The Howard 3 St Mary’s 3
Man City v Man Utd
PSG v Bayern Munich
Liverpool v Everton….
The Howard v St Mary’s
What an amazing game of football we witnessed on Tuesday. The boys played brilliantly and showed such team work, perseverance and skill. Everyone there witnessed an amazing end to end game.…
Super scientists
Today we continued being super scientists by exploring which biscuit has the best properties to make a good dunker.
The winner was…..the mighty custard cream!
Making music
Today we took our music lesson outside! This term we have been learning how to play the djembe drums.
Geography
Today in geography we have been creating mood boards showing the different amenities in our village compared to those in a city. In each group everyone had a key role. They were;
“The Tech person” was in charge of getting the information for the group.
“The creative editor” this person was in…
Materials and their properties
We have had lots of fun in science looking at different materials and then exploring their properties.
A greener, fairer and wiser future
- Today the children have taken part in two workshops to show how we can make changes for a greener, fairer and wiser future. We thought about what happens to our waste, how we can make small changes for a better environment and even had a 360 degree virtual tour of the an Energy Recovery…
Geography Fieldwork
Yesterday we conducted some fieldwork which relates to our Geography topic. Children created a tally to show the volume of traffic coming into Elford as well as the types of transport. We then used this data to create a bar graph.
What can we do with a paintbrush?
This week we started our final art topic of the year. We are exploring our painting skills. The first lesson focused on brush strokes. We explored how different sized brushes could be used in different ways to create different effects. Lots of fun and learning!