Year 4 have recapped their sewing skills this week in preparation for designing and making their own Victorian style 'hot pad' using quilting. We have our lists of 'Super sewers' ready to helping with threading, knotting and problem solving!
Monday, 28 April 2025
Year 4 - History
We are enjoying our new topic and learning about the rapid changes that took place during the Victorian era. In History this week, we placed our previous historical topics (from Years 1-4) on a timeline and then discussed what we already knew about the Victorian era. Some of the questions the children want to find our during this topic are:
- why were schools so strict?
- why did Queen Victoria marry her cousin?
- which countries were in the British Empire?
- what was this used for (a replica Victorian tooth extractor from the topic table!)?
- were children happy going to work in the Victorian times?
- would I have been sent to the workhouse if I lived in the Victorian times?
Spectacular Summer Term
Children were excited to be back at school to begin the Summer Term. They visited different Year 1 classes to complete a range of activities. In Lemon, children planted seeds like the character in our new book ‘The Extraordinary Gardener’. In Juniper, children made weather vanes to learn about wind. In Damson, children made clocks to tell the time.
Thursday, 24 April 2025
Year 4 Oak Tree- Ragged school
This week Oak tree went to visit the Ragged school museum, learning about how school have changed over time. The Victorian school was very different to Bannockburn. Using different material to write, like slate and chalk and they also got to see different methods schools in that era would use to sit up straight.
"The teacher was very strict!"
After lunch, we visited another room which was set us to look like an old photograph of a house with everything in one room. We even got to see the original photo the room was based on and some of the things they would have used then.
We got to learn about all the different method they would use to wash and iron clothes without modern electricity. 
We had a blast visiting the school and be able to take a glimpse into the Victorian era.
"Can we sleep here!"
Year 3 Disco
We had a great time during the Year 3 disco! We got on our dancing shoes and our glad rags and headed to the school hall. We enjoyed showing off our fantastic dancing moves and dance the afternoon away! We stopped for refreshments, to give us energy for more fun and dancing.
What a great day!
Year 3 Art: Clay pot
In today’s Art lesson, we used clay to create a pot by smoothing it with and fingers and other smoothing tools. We looked at the patterns we created in the previous lessons and used them to help decorate our pots. After creating our tiles, we walked around and looked at our classmate’s work, before providing feedback to each other.
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