Autumn Term

Basketball Festival

On Monday after an early lunch we walked to Braunton Academy for a Basketball Festival alongside Caen Primary School. We were very lucky to have Dave Roper, a basketball coach, leading the session.

He started by teaching them some basketball skills which led to some mini-games. The children thoroughly enjoyed it and learnt lots of new skills.

Move to the Beat Festival

A few children from both Year 3 and Year 4 walked down to the Parish Hall for a dance festival. They worked alongside children from Caen Primary School to learn and perform a dance. They had a fantastic time and really enjoyed this experience, as you can see from the photographs.

Remembrance Day

On Remembrance Day, following a discussion about what Remembrance Day is about and why we honour it each year, the children stood beautifully for the 2 minutes silence.

In the afternoon we looked at some art work by Georgia O'Keefe and particularly her poppies. They all produced an excellent poppy inspired by her style. Every child's piece of work is up on display either in the hall or in our classroom.

Science - Light

We have just started our new Science topic on light. We started off by finding out that in order to see we need light. Quite a few children thought that our eyes can get used to the dark and then we can see, so we started off finding out that happens in low light but if there is no light at all we cannot see. We went into the hall and they took turns doing an obstacle course whilst blindfolded. They found out that without their sight they needed to depend on their other senses.

Harvest Festival

For the Harvest Festival Year 3 made a Harvest Loaf. After our Harvest Service we left it at the church so that it could be used at a service in a local care home.

Fossil Making

After learning about fossils and how they are made over millions of years, visting Lyme Regis to find our own and learning and identifying different fossils we completed our work by making our own. Using the same principle of an animal making an impression in soil that forms a mould, we pressed a toy turtle into clay and then filled the mould with Plaster of Paris. They were delighted with the finished results!

Classroom Displays

For those of you who are unable to get into the classroom here are 4 of our displays. Hopefully they give you an idea about your child's learning environment.

Our work on The Stone Age with books and artefacts for them to access.

Celebrating some of our art work.

A Science display based on our work with fossils, with some photographs of our visit to Lyme Regis.

Our Science table that constantly changes. The books on this table are often their favourites!

Musical Talent

Last week week we celebrated the sporting success of our girls' football team. This week we are celebrating their musical talents. Some children take weekly piano lessons, others guitar lessons and some are members of the school choir or attend the music club. If anyone else is interested in their children joining in with any of these groups please ask for details.

Well done to all the children involved.

Girls Football Tournament

This week Year 3 were extremely proud of 6 of our girls that represented Kingsacre in the football tournament hosted on our school field. Competing were teams from Kingsacre, Caen, Southmead, Georgeham and Marwood. Our girls played in the Year 3/4 age group and were split across 2 teams. They both did exceptionally well but unfortunately had to play each other in the semi-finals! We ended up with a first and a third place which was fantastic and the girls were very proud of their medals. Most of the girls are new to football and so we really look forward to seeing them develop over the coming year.

Cave Paintings

As part of our learning about the Stone Age we have studied the importance of cave paintings. The school resource cupboard was turned into a cave for the afternoon and the children had fun decorating it with their own cave paintings. The most exciting part was going in with the lights off and exploring it with their flickering flame, just like it would have been!

The whole class trying to fit in the cave!

Painting Stone Age animals onto the cave walls

Examining the cave with a flickering flame!

Deciding where to paint her handprint.

Fossil Hunting at Lyme Regis

One of the favourite things we have been learning about in Science is fossils and the famous Palaeontologist Mary Anning. This learning was bought to life when we visited Lyme Regis. We were very lucky to have a Palaeontologist show us around the Museum which is built on the exact site of Mary Anning's house. He then taught the children how to find fossils. They listened to him so well that when we set off to the beach they had considerable success, which they found very exciting. I on the other hand did not have their ability!

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