To celebrate Google Classroom's 10th birthday, our team is writing a special issue on computers. We interviewed Miss Palmer, our ICT lead, and Mr Siviter, the IT techni-magician who is always helping us by fixing our Chromebooks!
This week we are highlighting our views on gender equality. We learnt about the Rule of Thumb (law) from Mrs Dawes relating to history and gender. We've also interviewed children from Year 2 to Year 6 about what they are learning in school this week.
This week we are looking at farming from ancient times to modern times. Sai wrote an acrostic poem about farmers and Jan shared some fascinating news about plastic-eating fungi and bacteria!
We are happy to be back at school and writing our newsletter again! Emily, Kurusumu and Sai from 5AI wrote about "being back to school" while Jan talked about the plight of the two astronauts from Boeing's Starliner, and Zion drew us another lovely Goat Comic!
Our last newsletter for the academic year 2023-2024 where we focus on the summer holidays and summer! Sai and Jan shared some fun facts about summer. For example, in 1816, there was no summer. It was called the ‘Year without Summer’ due to the volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora in Indone...
On Transition Day, Kurusumu reports about the Bamboo school in Thailand where children are often taught by other children. Bamboo School was founded in 2009. Dina wrote about our Child Hero of the week: Orion Jean, an 11 year old who founded the Race to Kindness in 2020.
This week, Darine and Kurusumu from 4RR interviewed Miss Hemans, the Art subject leader, about Arts and its benefits. Jan highlights the recent discovery of the black room in Pompeii, a beautiful dark room with paintings of Paris and Helen of Troy amongst others. Above is a drawing Miss Hemans repro...
Darine highlights how the election is an important part of our democracy, while Emily, Chaima, Kurusumu and Tasneem interviewed the Year 2 and Year 4 children about their SATs and MTC tests. Jan reported on the discovery of a prehistoric reptile in Somerset, England back in 2020 by 11yr old Ruby.