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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,...
Oceans – our Geography unit of work
We began by learning about the oceans, what they are called and how there are many ways of naming oceans. They could be sea, bays, gulfs and bights to name a few. Our writing reflected the beauty of the oceans but also revealed how they are damaged by human and...
Dressing up as a book charcter Assembly
We all enjoyed dressing up as a character from a book- we had Mary Poppins, Harry Potter, Little Red Riding Hood and a wolf, a boy in a dress, Goldilocks, Billionaire boy and Thing 1 and Thing 2 to name a few! Well done to everyone involved in organising such...
Come to Kampong Ayer
Burton class wrote persuasive brochures about Kampong Ayer- the biggest water village in the world!
More World Book Day 2025!
We enjoyed dressing up as our favourite book characters! And still on a book theme, our Book Nook is ready to use!
Cogden Class Travel Brochures Extravaganza
Weeks Beginning: 24th February and 3rd March During our Geography unit, Cogden pupils explored the dynamic changes in their local environment, learning to identify and describe both natural and human-induced changes. They observed and recorded these changes,...
World Book Day 2025
We began this year's World Book Day with a book tournament - The Battle of the Books! Each key stage were read pairs of books. Pupils then voted for their favourite book which then went into round 2. Eventually one book emerged as the winner..... [gallery...
Visit from a printmaker
To round off our art printing unit, the school welcomed Paul Cleden, a local artist. He was able to share his printmaking work with us and explain the process from initial ideas to the finished artwork. Here are some of his prints... [gallery...
Burton: Printing and poetry writing
Burton Class printed using their hands, shells, plasticine and foam boards. The children worked with paint and printing ink and created lots of different prints. We then chose the subject of trees to write poetry. The year groups worked together to draft their poem...
Ekphrastic poetry
Ekphrastic poems are poems inspired by works of art. Here are some examples that we wrote during our monotype unit of work.
Exploring Art and Poetry: A Journey with Monet and Matisse
In their recent Art unit, Cogden pupils have been delving into the vibrant worlds of Monet and Matisse. The pupils explored the unique techniques and styles of these iconic artists, creating their own masterpieces inspired by Monet's impressionistic brushstrokes and...
Monotypes
Seatown have been creating monoprints in art this week. We explored mark making using different media before exploring 4 different ways of creating prints. The first was by placing paper onto an ink bed. This was followed by taking 'ghost prints'...
