Beautiful Banyan Trees by Beech Class

In art, we have been looking closely at Banyan Trees.  Banyan Trees have long roots and branches and a single tree can spread over a large area.  We have even seen a picture of a restaurant built amongst the branches of a Banyan Tree! After looking at lots of pictures of Banyan Trees, we then … Read more

Beech Class visit the Natural History Museum

Beech Class had a fantastic time at the Natural History Museum in Tring. We had great fun exploring the museum and finding out lots of facts about animals. The museum has six galleries with over 4,000 animals on display.  We found out that the largest animal in the Museum is the southern elephant seal and … Read more

Amazing Maths Day in Beech Class

We had great fun in Beech Class on Maths Day.  First we tried to solve different maths problems and puzzles, such as ‘crack the Code’, mathematical anagrams, joining 9 dots with only 4 lines and finding mystery numbers.  We used calculators to work out answers to sums and when we turned the calculator upside down … Read more

Making pizzas at Pizza Express

As part of our unit of work on pizza packaging, Class 3/4 went to Pizza Express in Hitchin, to see how pizzas are made and to have a go at making a pizza ourselves.  We were given a ball of dough, which we had to pull and stretch by hand so it would fit into … Read more

Class 3/4 have been designing and making torches

The children have made cup torches, bottle torches and head torches.  In order for the torches to light up they had to include a circuit, which they made using wires, batteries, a bulb and bulb holder.   They also had to include a switch, which they made out of card, paper clips and paper fasteners.  It … Read more

Making circuits in Class 3/4

We have had great fun investigating electrical circuits and working out where wires, bulbs and batteries need to go in order to make a bulb light up.  It was quite tricky putting the equipment together but we found out that a circuit needs to be complete in order to make an appliance work.  In another … Read more

Class 3/4 visit to The Natural History Museum in Tring

As part of our science unit this term on teeth, Class 3/4 went to the Natural History Museum in Tring.  First we looked around the museum at the many animal displays and completed a worksheet about animal teeth.  We then took part in a workshop and each group was given a different animal skull to … Read more

Awesome Audacity

Class 3/4 continued their Computing unit of work on Communication and Sound, utilising the software package Audacity to make fabulous sound clips! After last week mastering uploading sound effects, this week the children were learning how to upload and manage backing tracks along with their own voices. They recorded nursery rhymes (or their versions of!) … Read more

Our Pizza Express Experience

On Tuesday 2nd June 2015 Class 3/4 went to Pizza Express. We left school at 8.50am. It took us 20 minutes to walk there. When we got there the waitress, Wendy told us the history of Pizza Express. It first started in 1965 and a man called Peter Boizot started it. There are over 500 … Read more