School Blog
In Year 5 we have been looking at different ways to decipher a secret message. We learned about Alan Turning and the Enigma and Morse Code. We also made our own Caesar Cipher Code Wheel and created encrypted messages for our classmates to...
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Year One had an exciting visit from the Camden Learning Centre. The children enjoyed a wonderful day’s learning, exploring how to use Beebots. This introduced them to coding and computational thinking.
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Year 6 had great fun on Tuesday 1st December, when Gillian Ingram visited from the CLC in Camden to show them how to program Micro bits. Pupils had to use Chromebooks to write programs that controlled LED lights on a little micro bit, very...
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Good luck to the Key Stage 2 children who are taking part in the London Youth Games Virtual Athletics Competition. All children in Year 3,4,5 and 6 will take part in sprinting, throwing and jumping events during their PE lessons. Their...
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4 Maple very much enjoyed their gardening workshop with Mr Smith this week. They learned about the Swedish scientist, Carl Linnaeus, and his work on classifying plants and animals. They then had a go at classifying some live animals from the...
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As we are not able to go on trips at the moment, the museum came to the classroom. Thanks to an excellent selection of artefacts from the Schools Library Service, we were able to set up the classroom as a Roman gallery. At each “case” were...
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Everyone in the school put their best (odd) feet forward in their celebration of Anti-Bullying Week. Everyone wore odd socks as a symbol of individuality and the right to be ourselves. The theme, Unite Against Bullying, asked the children...
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Over a three-week period during the first half of the Autumn term, our Key Stage Two children took part in a Virtual London Mini Marathon competition. They completed laps of the 180 metre track on our school pitch, with some pupils clocking up...
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Year Two have been historians this week as we have explored artefacts to learn more about the past. We examined each item carefully and predicted what they may have been used for in the past and made comparisons to the present day. The...
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Have you learnt about equivalent fractions? Year 6 have been using paper strips to build their Fraction Wall to help them understand equivalent fractions. They started with one strip at the top to create a whole, then folded paper to...
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In numeracy, the children have been playing games to improve their number fluency and secure their number bonds, including addition by counting on from a larger number. Another focus was to explore different game strategies that would determine...
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Humpty Dumpty was one focus for learning in Nursery recently. The children practised performing the nursery rhyme and they drew, painted and wrote about it too. They built different walls in their maths sessions and decided whether Humpty Dumpty...
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