In computing this term, the Year 3 and 4s have been developing strategies for finding errors in programs. They have looked at some of the different types of bugs found in coding and have learned that collaboration and resilience is key to finding and correcting these types of problems.
Diamond Class Activities
Residential
What a wonderful time Year 5 and 6 had on residential to How Hill. They learned how to dissect an owl pellet and what owls eat, and how to analyse the quality of the water in the broads. They learned what animal life there is on the broads and at How Hill from a boat trip, from dyke dipping and from setting animal camera traps. They also learned how to read a compass and completed some complicated orienteering courses. The pupils were amazing and we hope to return to How Hill to learn more about our broads in the summer.
Plough Monday
Monday 17th January saw the celebration of Plough Monday take place in the afternoon collective worship. Mr Tibbenham and Judy Pritchard attended from the Poor Trustees and church, and presented every child with a loaf of bread. The pupils led prayers and explained the unique tradition. We wish to thank them for our bread!
Visit from Santa
Santa visited on the last day of term and delivered us all a wonderful present. We then had a lovely party.
Thank you Santa!
Christmas Cards
We learned how to use paper folding, cutting and sewing skills to design and make our Christmas Cards this year. Some of us found the sewing difficult but we persevered and we think they looked amazing!
Christmas Scones
Our Design Technology project this Term was designing and making Christmas scones. We tasted and evaluated plain scones then a range of Christmassy ingredients so that we could design our own festive ones. Having made them, we tasted our own and evaluated them against our original design criteria. They tasted amazing and looked Christmassy too!
Christingle Service
Working with partners, we all made our Christingles and then Year 6 led our Christingle service in school on the last morning of term. Rev Steven closed the service with a reflection and prayer. We celebrated the meaning of the Christingle and Emerald class wrote and read their own prayers.
Lego Education
East Norfolk Sixth Form visited school with a Lego workshop and Diamond Class learned to code through playful problem solving.
Speech
In English we are learning how to punctuate and set out speech correctly. We acted out a conversation between Tinkerbell and Wendy from our class novel ‘Peter Pan’ and then wrote up the conversation using inverted commas. We are definitely improving at writing speech.
