Some of the pictures show the children in Base 5 exploring different books based on our current topic: How much did the Ancient Egyptians achieve?

The children loved looking through our selection of topic books and finding new information about the Ancient Egyptians. They especially enjoyed the fold-out book that had a huge map of the river Nile!

Other pictures show some children’s art work. Children were using wire to create familiar Egyptian symbols such as a scarab beetle and The Eye of Horus. The children had to using joining, bending and shaping techniques to form the outline of the symbols.

Thank you Base 5 – it is really interesting to keep up with how much you are learning about the Ancient Egyptians and their way of life.

Music Heroes are in school this week doing their regular lessons.

Lots of children are now learning guitar and piano and also Jenny Burgess is in school teaching woodwind instruments.

Hriday has started to learn piano and has shared his lesson with us today.

Base One are reading Goodnight Mr Tom and today as part of their learning, they have been writing an additional chapter to the story.

Mrs Smith said that there were lots of creative ideas and she was really happy with how hard they were working.

We are sure that the children would be happy to tell you about this lesson and everything that they have learned.

Last week’s Science for Base 4 included work on resistance.

They investigated air resistance and designing the safest and slowest parachute by investigating string length and surface area.