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What's been happening in Discoverers/Voyagers.

Discoverers/Voyagers

Discoverers/Voyagers

  • Bullying is not tolerated at Bishopsteignton Primary School. We frequently discuss friendships and how to deal with problems in RHE lessons but also get involved with Anti-Bullying Week.
  • WOW! We have been blown away by the ways that children have started their multiplication and division learning for this half term.
  • The children acted out their own cooking show based on their learning so far in DT and Literacy.
  • With a cross curriculum link between Art and History, the children designed and created their own cave drawings.
  • This week, to end their learning about Prehistoric Britain, the children explored a variety of sources of evidence linked to Iron Age religion
  • The children had a fantastic (and wet) morning taking part in activities that immersed them in the lives of people from the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age.
  • This week, we learned how beliefs were shown in the Bronze Age.
  • Voyagers and Discoverers read and explored several counting poems today. Aiming to inspire a love of poetry as part of National Poetry Day.
  • This half term, the Voyagers and Discoverers are developing their tennis skills and we have been very impressed with their ball and racket skills.
  • The children bounced their hearts out to raise money for FOBS.
  • The children thought very carefully about how their words can build others up or bring them down.
  • This week, we used some historical sources to build a picture of Early Stone Age life.
  • The children showed great problem solving skills and collaboration while trying to create a complete electrical circuit.
  • The children spent their first art lesson exploring drawing with different materials.
  • Today Year 3 had a lot of fun building their own 3-D shapes from a range of construction materials including straws, match sticks, and plasticine.
  • The children were fantastic scientists when setting up their investigation to see what a marigold plant needs to survive and grow.
  • The children conducted fieldwork on Luxton's Step and around the village.
  • This week, the children have been developing their overarm throwing techniques.
  • Discoverers spent some time exploring new, exciting books in the school library and reading with Explorers.
  • The children took part in role play and posed to show snapshots from different parts of the story.
  • We created lifelike paintings of flowers by observing their features closely like real botanists.
  • Voyagers and Discoverers have created two amazing pieces of writing about the searching for specific creatures in our woodland.
  • Year 4 have just returned from our residential trip to Forest and Beach Outdoor Education Centre.
  • Voyagers and Discoverers used all their knowledge of vertebrates to help them classify their choice of creatures from the islands of the UK or New Zealand.
  • The children have been fantastic this week in Maths lessons when looking at parts of whole (decimals and fractions) and demonstrating their understanding in many ways.
  • This week in Science, Discoverers and Voyagers have kicked off the Animals topic by investigating invertebrates.
  • Wow! What incredible artists we have in Voyagers and Discoverers.
  • Today in Design and Technology we were making torches. We used our knowledge and skills from science to help us construct a working circuit, thinking carefully about conductors and insulators to help us.
  • Year 3 and 4 took part in some fantastic Science learning across the week.
  • We have loved to see the children in their wonderful outfits, celebrating their favourite books and authors for World Book Day.
  • Year 4 had brilliant forest school session in the sunshine today and it finally felt like Spring! Yet, still plenty of mud to be found!
  • Isaac Newton light spinners
  • To start of our 'Get inpsired' topic, the children have looked at sculptures of local artist Barbara Hepworth before then exploring how clay can be manipulated and the skills they may need when creating their own sculptures.
  • Year 3 and 4 have been learning about what perimeter is and how to use different calculation skills to solve perimeter problems.
  • As part of our topic: Worldwide History, we have been finding out what food the Ancient Maya used to eat and how they grew the food or hunted it.
  • In English this week, the children used many skills to research facts about the Ancient Mayas to help them write their own information page.
  • The children have been learning different types of shots used in the game volleyball. This week, they focused on learning the dig shot.
  • This week we looked at different types of loops: infinite loops and count-controlled loops.
  • Discoverers were lucky enough to spend some time exploring some amazing books in the library with some brownies, then travel to Explorers and read with the younger children.
  • WOW! Year 3 had a brilliant first Forest School session where the sun shone and they demonstrated so many of our school values.
  • The children have been using their multiplication and place value knowledge to multiply larger numbers.
  • The children celebrated the end of a brilliant Geography topic by building their own river channel on the grass outside.
  • The children in Voyagers and Discoverers have been set a challenge. They must design and build a model bridge to help Santa get across to his reindeer.
  • Voyagers and Discoverers have been learning about the ‘Trinity’ and why it is important to Christians.
  • In Voyagers and Discoverers this week, we have been using doubling to help with understanding and recall of multiplication facts.
  • As part of our Extreme Earth topic, the children have been developing their map reading skills by looking for river s in the UK.
  • This week in Art, we have explored printing techniques using various materials and tools.
  • The children had a fantastic day learning more about the Victorian period and what this looked like in Teignmouth.
  • In science, this week the children have been learning about their muscles and how they are needed to move.
  • Today, in History we learnt about different aspects of a school day for Victorian children.
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