Gretton
27/11/24 Another very impressive art lesson. Children scaled up drawings of animals from last week. We learnt about proportion, blending, scaling and applying different pressure by using different grips/ parts of the medium.
19/11/24 We enjoyed a lovely wintery walk today , looking for inspiration for our writing. Children hunted for wintery nouns to help set the scene for our story. A solitary red kite circled above the snow covered cottage.
13/11/24 We really enjoyed our creative Cave Art session, re creating ancient art form over 35,000 years ago. The children found out how our ancient ancestors would blow pigment over their hands to make hand prints and use line drawings to capture the world around them and even communicate to each other.
11/11/24 Completing our Apple and Salted Caramel pastries. Lots of Fun, the children particularly enjoyed eating all the spare apples.
Class Remembrance Song 11/11/24
5/11/24 As part of our DT food project, the class enjoyed practicing skills of chopping and peeling. We soon learned who helps out at home 😃. A very good effort from all.
16/10/24 Today in class, students explored the world of flowering plants through hands-on dissection! Each student carefully dissected a flower, identifying key parts like the petals, sepals, stamens stigma and ovaries. The activity helped them understand the function of each part in the plant’s reproductive process. Afterward, they made detailed observational drawings, capturing the intricate structure of the flowers.
Gretton Class Recreates Coded Indus Valley Messages
15/10/24
In Gretton Class, we’ve been diving into the fascinating world of the Indus Valley Civilisation, one of the earliest advanced societies in history. This week, the students engaged in an exciting project: recreating coded messages using symbols similar to those found in the ancient Indus Valley script.
The Indus Valley script, made up of mysterious symbols, has never been fully decoded, leaving much about their communication a puzzle to archaeologists and historians. To explore how people might have communicated, students invented their own symbolic codes, imagining what messages people at the time may have needed to share—about trade, religion, everyday life or who the best football team might be 😁
Through this activity, students gained insights into how challenging it can be to understand ancient communication and also how ongoing research might unlock the secrets in a similar way to the Rosetta Stone.
Science 24/09/24
Children Studying the the effects of capillary action in plants.
Some great teamwork to work scientifically and making detailed observations of changes over time.
Summer 2024 overview and timetable
Spring 2024 overview and timetable
Autumn 2023 overview and timetable
Beach Day - June 2023
Felting - March 2023
World Book Day 2023
Spring Overview
Super effort from everyone in Gretton for Crazy Hair Day!
