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Cogden RE: Sikhism – Guru Nanak
Week Beginning 9/6/25 The Sikhism: Guru Nanak unit offered Cogden Class a meaningful exploration of faith, equality, and compassion through the life and teachings of Guru Nanak. Year 3 and Year 4 pupils began by...
Cogden PSHE: Growing and Changing – Coping
Week Beginning: 2/6/25 This PSHE unit gave Cogden Class a powerful toolkit for navigating emotions, change, and personal growth. Through diary writing, group discussions, and reflective activities, Year 3 and Year 4 pupils explored how to recognise and manage...
Year 6’s begin their leaving journey at Salisbury Cathedral 9.6.25
Today, our Y6's took the train to Salisbury Cathedral where they took part in a service with around 300 other Year 6s.It marked the beginning of 'lasts' for the year group. The service focused on how the storms of life can be...
It’s All Change! How Can We Manage It Positively?
We began the week, focusing on ourselves and how unique we are. We had a go at writing down 3 things we liked about ourselves. However, we all found this quite hard so we switched tactics. Each person was given the opportunity to state something positive about each of...
The Kingdom of God
This week we have been exercising our philosophical thinking, our questionning and debating skills. We have explored what we think the Kingdom of God is and what Jesus says about the Kingdom of God through his parables. WE had a better understanding of what we mean by...
Cogden RE: Christianity – Creation
WB 19/5/25 The Christianity: Creation unit offered Cogden Class a reflective and creative exploration of the natural world through the lens of faith. Year 3 and Year 4 pupils began by immersing themselves in...
Seamstress visits Powerstock
As part of our DT: Textiles unit, we were visited by local seamstress, Beth Harris. Beth visited each class and shared her wealth of experience in the industry, ranging from her primary school days in Sewing Club, to working in amateur theatre, to university and...
Seatown’s Super Salads
We had so much fun learning different ways to prepare food including: bridge cut, claw cut, slicing, peeling, grating, zesting, dicing and shredding. Once we had made our salad, we tasted and adjusted the amount of ingredients in order to improve the taste, texture...
Cogden DT: Health Eating and Recipe Creation!
WB 21/5/25 The "Healthy Eating and...
Animal Lifecycles focus on humans
Seatown have spent a week looking at the lifecycle of animals but with a particular focus on humans. We studied the details of growth and change at all the different stages of life: prenatal, infancy, childhood, adolescence, young/mid/late adulthood. We had...
Seatown Visit the Yeovilton Fleet Air Arm Museum May 2025
To end our unit of work on The Battle of Britain we visited the museum where we enhanced our learning with a deeper understanding of how technology and the Royal Navy played a role. [gallery...
Battle of Britain
We spent 2 weeks looking at the events that led up to the Battle of Britain, how we won it and the affect it had on the Home Front. The subjunctive..... Journalling our knowledge ....... Historical narratives with...
Cogden History Unit: The Romans
21st April - 2nd May The "Romans" unit for Cogden Class, immersed Year 3 and Year 4 students in Roman history while enhancing their narrative writing skills. Students explored key concepts such as the...
DT – Sew Additions and Embellishments to a T Shirt
Seatown enjoyed a week of sewing using running stitch to make seams and create embellishments. Buttons and sequins were also sewn on. The resulting T - Shirts were then subject to a product description and a customer review. [gallery...
Seatown RE Unit: Christianity – Salvation
Seatown spent a week recapping the Easter story but learning about an aspect that is often not remembered - The Road to Emmaus story. Our English skills focused on summarising in caption form, timeline form (using fronted adverbials of time) as well as writing a brief...
Journey-Burton Class narrative
Burton class loved the story of Journey. We did drama when there were two or more characters, we learnt about using speech bubbles and inverted commas. On the final few days we wrote about what happened next.
Journey by Aaron Becker, Seatown’s narrative
This week we have been enjoying exploring a wordless book - Journey by Aaron Becker. Our focus across the school was writing dialogue but Seatown was also working on describing characters and settings and building tension. Lots of discussion, ideas and experimentation...
Cogden Narrative: Journey
Week Beginning 17/3/25 The pupils of Cogden Class have just completed an exciting narrative unit inspired by the enchanting picture book Journey by Aaron Becker. Throughout this unit, pupils honed their skills in using inverted commas and crafting engaging dialogues....
Codgen Science: Plants
Week beginning 10/3/25 Cogden have been delving into the fascinating world of plants. Building on their previous knowledge from Year 2, where they learnt about the basic parts of plants and their functions, students have expanded their understanding by identifying and...
Living Things – Classification, Habitats and Food Chains
We spent a week looking in more detail at the characteristics of all organisms, focusing first on observable characteristics. In the school grounds, we identified all living things in various micro habitats such as log piles, tree,...
