Ancient Egyptian Landmarks
Y3 made clay models of Ancient Egyptian landmarks and added them to a map of Egypt plotted on our playground. As a class we then visited Ancient Egypt!
Y3 Egyptian mummification writing
In Y3, we mummified a class mate to help us to write ‘how to mummify a body’ instructions. Come and check out our instructions in the classroom! Hopefully, they are clear and easy to follow.
Pre-School Summer 1 Week 5 Oliver’s Vegetables
This week we have been reading Oliver’s Vegetables. We’ve been exploring the new vegetable gardens and making scarecrows. We also measured ourselves against a sunflower and planted our own sunflower seeds. The children also went on a trail to identify different insects they may find in the soil or feeding on plants and blossom. We’ve […]
Y6 – SATs Week
The Year 6 team, as well as all the adults at Dore Primary School, would like to congratulate the Year 6 pupils for the manner in which they conducted themselves during SATs week. Children approached the tests with great maturity and displayed calm, purposefulness and resilience throughout the week. Well done!
Y4 Roman Road Making
To support our understanding of Roman technologies, Y4 spent an afternoon learning about how the Romans built layers up to create their famous road system. We found out about the different materials used, then went outside and had a go a creating mini ones of our own.
Y1 Virtual book event!
Year 1 have been learning about Caryl Hart’s book ‘how to grow a dinosaur’. They were invited to a virtual book event about her new book ‘meet the weather’ They enjoyed reading, singing, drawing and getting a private tour around the illustrators studio!
Y2 Science – Changing Materials
In Y2 we have been learning about materials that float or sink. Today we investigated how changing the shape of plasticine affected its properties!
Philosophy for Children (P4C) – Black Lives Matter
As part of our Ancient Egypt and Mists of Time Learning Journeys we have been think about how humans evovled in Africa and spread around the world. Last lesson, we considered, if in fact we were all Africans? Today we moved on to thinking why the Black Lives Matter movement started and why it was […]