A trip to Costa
The nursery children went on the minibus and travelled to Costa. When we were there Alex showed us whole coffee beans and ground coffee. Then we had a babyccino.
Archaeological evidence!
In a bid to discover more about what the Romans ate, Year 4 became archaeologists for a day. They rummaged through Roman organic matter to search for evidence. ( don’t…
Can you solve a Maths problem?
The Bees can! What was our secret? the RUCSAC method! To solve word problems, we had to read and understand what was written and find ways to approach them. Our…
What a start to the year for the Bees!
The Bees have started the year with the theme Transportation. We had fun activities using our listening and collaboration muscles! We have learnt the skill of completing jigsaw puzzles of…
Fireman visit
Fireman Pete came to visit, he told us about fire safety and the role of a firefighter.
Bucket filling
This half term at Downs Barn School we have been learning how to be a bucket filler. We have learnt we all have an invisible bucket which can be filled…
Lego and Stem in Year 4
Following our robot unit we finished the half term with a team design challenge. The year 4 children were challenged to use the lego to design either a moving vehicle,…
Year 4 are robot engineers
In year 4 we have been using lego and the awesome Wedo software. These are some of our designs.