On February 10th, Year 4 had a fantastic day visiting West Stow, the Anglo-Saxon village!  We left school at around 9am and had a brilliant coach journey all the way to Suffolk.

To begin with, the children enjoyed sitting together with one of the school adults exploring artefacts related to the Anglo-Saxons!  Each group got to handle the objects, guess what they were and what they were used for. There were actual artefacts found at West Stow alongside replicas and they ranged from part of an animal skull to a beautiful brooch for a cloak!

Then, the children had an opportunity to explore the museum! There were lots of glass cases full of other artefacts, interactive displays and dressing up clothes!

This took the morning session and then we have an opportunity to eat our lunch together in a lovely covered area and have a good chat about our morning so far!

In the afternoon, we had an opportunity to look at the Anglo-Saxon village itself.  This reconstruction sits exactly where the original village sat and the buildings are all built as they would have been.  Each one has information about it and interesting objects inside.  The children really enjoyed seeing these buildings in real life!

The children were exquisitely behaved and really made all of the adults exceptionally proud!  Not only that, they had a great time and really enjoyed immersing themselves in the history of the Anglo-Saxons!

Well done, Year 4!

This term, we will be starting to hand out pen licences to children who have really worked hard on their handwriting! They will get a lovely certificate to bring home, along with a voucher from Stabilo for 10% off a Stabilo EASYoriginal pen!  

Year 4 have been exploring how letters and words are formed since the beginning of the year and their efforts are paying off in their writing across the curriculum!

Well done, Year 4!

Our work in RE this term has been about Christianity and our enquiry question was, “Where do Christian beliefs come from?” We have studied a story from the Bible and looked at the lessons that Bible stories can teach.  In order to consolidate our learning, we had a wonderful visit from Father Andrew, Vicar at Wymondham Abbey. The children came up with some wonderful questions including, “Why did you choose to become a Christian?”, “What are your favourite stories from the Bible?”, “Who or what inspired you to be a Christian?”

We really enjoyed Father Andrew’s visit, and he really helped us understand Christianity better.

This term, our year group has had the chance to visit forest school!  Each house has the opportunity to work with Jules Jackdaw and enjoy special activities they wouldn’t get to do anywhere else. This week it was Holkham’s turn.  We began the session under the shelter where everyone introduced themselves using their forest school names.  Then, the children were given the opportunity to go and explore the forest area.  Some chose to work in the mud kitchen, some chose to build crossbows, some climbed trees and some chose to do a mixture of everything and anything!  We had a lovely time and thoroughly enjoyed this amazing resource.