Year 6 have been planning, making and eating burgers as their DT unit this half term.  We have had lots of visitors drifting into the Year 6 classes, lured by the delicious smells over the last two days!  Great effort and attitude by the children.  It has been great to see them learning new skills and tasting new flavours.  Well done Year 6!

Year 3 had a fantastic afternoon taking part in some orienteering and team building games led by sports leaders from secondary schools around Bedford (including a number of Livingstone graduates!).  The children worked in mixed teams of year 3 and year 4 and teamed up with others that they wouldn't usually work with on a daily basis.  Everyone had a great time, worked together very well and some pupils showed good leadership skills with some tricky problems.

For the start of their series of lessons on coding, Wagtails and Woodpeckers have been busy solving logic problems.  The children have been really enjoying these and many have even chosen to keep working on the problems during golden time.  If you would like to explore more we have been using rodocodo.com which is available to use at home for free.

Year 4 are having so much fun at Trinity learning how to swim. They have all challenged themselves to become much more confident in the water. Year 4's are working in small groups in the pool, to improve their swimming skills and should be very proud of their progress.

We have been busy designing a Christmas card for the Purple Mash annual Christmas card competition. Fingers crossed!

Here are a few of the entries. Good Luck!

Year 5 had a wonderful time last week when they visited the Space Centre in Leicester! We got to spend time interacting with lots of fascinating exhibits about our Solar Sytem and beyond! A highlight of the trip was the opportunity to spend time in the Planetarium where we were taken on a journey around our universe!

Penguins class showed off their acting skills today! After reading and learning about the story of Little Red Riding Hood, the children acted out the story as narrated by Mrs Bliss.

There were some Oscar-worthy performances! 

This week in Swallows we have been experimenting with clay in our art lessons.

The children used different tools and shaping techniques to mold and shape their clay into decorative snakes and tiles. We used Lego blocks to stamp patterns into the clay to create different textures. Once the sculptures have dried we will be decorating them and mounting them for display.

Last week year 2 spent some time talking about anti-bullying week.

We had a very successful odd-socks day on Monday where lots of children decided to wear their odd socks. It was nice for Mr Brown to not be the only one wearing odd socks for a day!

We also spent some time discussing how everybody in our class is different, but how it is those differences that make us special and unique. We then asked the children to design their own odd socks, highlighting all of the things that make them special.

We hope that everybody in year 2 will remember to Make A Noise if they see bullying in the future.

Woodpeckers have had a busy few weeks back. We have come to the end of our Stone Age work and finished the topic by completing our cave art pictures. We are now moving on to learn about the Bronze Age. In music we have been learning to play the glockenspiels and have been adding our accompaniments to a song we have learnt. 

Wrens had a great time at Biddenham International School and Sports college recently when they participated in a range of sporting activities. These activities tested their balance and co-ordination skills and encouraged teamwork. Thank you Miss Churchill for arranging it and Biddenham for hosting. 

Kestrels have had a fantastic start to this half term with the start of our new book 'Holes' by Louis Sachar, a fun morning of Bagels and Books and some mature discussions on friendships and anti-bullying.  The class also enjoyed making their own anti-bullying blanket, which we shall have on our book corner sofa!  We even managed to sneak in a trip to the cinema to enjoy Spiderman last week!  They are working hard on our unit in Maths, which is recapping fraction work from Year 5 and building in the work of Year 6.  We are very impressed with their positive attitude to getting their homework done and for engaging with Doodle Maths both in and out of the classroom.  Thank you to the grown ups at home for your support. 

Year 4 went to Holdenby House where they were transported back to 1942. Owls and Ospreys spent the day as WW2 evacuees and enjoyed many fun activities. 

It has been a fun few weeks in Kingfishers! In English, we have been reading Holes by Louis Sachar and we are currently planning a non-chronological report about a Yellow-Spotted Lizard! Pupils are thoroughly enjoying the plot, characters and flashback element to the story. In Maths, we have been working on Fractions and today pupils have begun researching different North American cities that they are going to present to the class. So far, highlights of this half-term have been a trip to the cinema to watch Spiderman 2 and celebrating diversity/ differences by wearing odd socks (and creating our own designs) in support of Anti-Bullying Week. Next week, we will be making burgers, which pupils are really excited about :)

As part of our Maths learning this term we have been learning all about circles and triangles. We looked at the work of Wassily Kandinsky and created our own versions of his work 'Squares with Concentric Circles' using oil pastels. We each designed one square and put them together to create our class masterpieces (we think they look as good, if not better, than the original!).  

In Science we have been learning about the five senses. Last week we carried out a taste test where we tried different foods, including marmite, jam, lemon, chocolate and crisps. 

Lots of children in Herons and Hawks participated in Odd Socks day for Anti-Bullying Week. It was really great to see so many children wearing a fantastic selection of brightly coloured odd socks to raise awareness against bullying.

Year 5 had a great morning last week when Polly Ho-Yen, author of Boy In The Tower, visited us via zoom. We spent last half-term reading the book and doing lots of English work linked to it so it was fantasitc to be able to finally get to meet the author. The children asked loads of great questions and listened really well to Polly talking about the book and what inspired her to write it. 

The Puffins made  Chocolate Divas.

The children made poppies for Remembrance Day.