Week 7
Science Day
This Friday was Science Day, and we have focused on the digestive system! The children have how the digestive system works. We dis used the function and purpose of the mouth, oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine and rectum in order to digest food to energise our bodies.
We had a practical experiment to show this! It has been so much fun!
Week 6 - Transition Week
Week 4
The children have participated in the daily mile, a great way to build their stamina for running and improve cardiovascular health! The children love this each week and really enjoy noticing the progress they make.
After, we embraced the warmer weather to enjoy readings from ‘Dare to be different’. This afternoon we read about Anne Frank and Marcus Rashford!
Week 3
Religion and World Views
The children worked in pairs to create posters about the Hindu pilgrimage to the Ganges, they explored the festival of Kumbh Mela, they added information about the Ganges creation story, blessings, prayer and why it is important to them
Week 2
‘Where would you rather live, Venice or Cleethorpes?’
Hazel class loved debating their thoughts, they wrote about pros/cons, weather, jobs, amusements, tourism, human and physical features and even named their favourite thing to do and made a travel brochure!
Week 1
This week our local PCSO visited the Academy, we had an assembly delivered by her a lady from Road Safety. We learnt about the green cross code and different types of crossings. We learnt how to cross at these different crossings safely.
Summer 2
Week 3
The children have been outside to explore both human and physical features within the natural environment, by playing eye spy.
They drew and wrote what eye thing was in which they had to guessing beginning with the letter indicated.
Week 2
BURSAR VS REYNOLDS
This afternoon our Y3/4 football team played incredibly against Reynolds Academy in an inter-school football match hosted at Bursar, winning 3-0! Goal scorers Josh, Ollie B and Finley!
Well done boys, we are all so incredibly proud of you and all the hard work you’ve put in!
GO TEAM BURSAR
Week 1
This half term we are exploring, how we can use geographical data to decide whether we would like to live in Cleethorpes or Venice.
But first we need to develop our map and atlas skills to identify these places, the countries they’re in and the capital cities!
Summer Term
Week 5
This week we took a walk to Weelsby Woods to explore the 5 senses. We had a great time investigating, discussing and sharing our findings together. This has helped to inform our writing from the stimulus 'Voices in the Park.'
Week 4
This week we have been re-introducing speech. We have been generating sentences from pictures and making sure they are punctuated correctly.
Week 3
FOUR CORNERS
During writing we have worked as an individual to gather information from our specialist stations to go back and share with the friends on our table. We looked at adverbs, conjunctions, emotions and action words to create vocabulary mats to inform and support in our writing to make it even more exciting!
Great team work this morning Hazel’s
Week 2
Happy World Book Day 2025!
Week 1
Today, we worked in small groups to act out the Islamic creation story. Each group performed a different part, showing how Allah created the heavens and the earth, the sun, moon, and stars, and the land and seas. Some of us acted as trees, flowers, and animals to represent the creation of nature, while others played the roles of Adam and Hawwa (Eve) to show the first humans. Through this role-play, we learned that Muslims believe Allah is the Creator of everything and that the natural world reflects His power and beauty.
Spring 2
Week 6
DT has been an incredible introduction to construction making a drawbridge using a pulley system to raise and lower the bridge. The children have looked at mechanical pulleys and the input, process and output of the mechanisms. We have explored using familiar toys such as cranes, garages and bridges before conducting market research about a range of bridge types. The children have been taught how to use the equipment safely and had a go at this too! The children worked in groups to design a drawbridge in a group then together used a template to make their bridge with a pulley system. They were critical, problem solved and worked fantastic together as a team. Well Done.
Week 5
The children then explored both the positives and negatives of screen time limits and thought about their own opinion around this topic. They thought carefully about their argument point and reason behind whether they support screen time limits or not, articulating this to the whole class!
Week 4
In Geography we are learning about volcanoes and earthquakes. This week we have explored the impact and next steps after 4 significant earthquakes and volcanoes including San Francisco, California 1906 and Tohoku, Japan 2011. First, we identified them on a map and then described how these places were impacted by the natural distasters.
Week 3
In Religion and World Views, we have been understanding Muslim faith and the 5 pillars of Islam. We focussed this week on Salah (prayer) the obligatory act of praying 5 times a day fcing Mecca as a direct communication with Allah.
Week 2
This week the children in Hazel class have enjoyed their PE sessions with GTFC. They have been practicing rapid reactions and learning how to sprint to catch as well as defend their designated areas. Well Done.
Week 1
MY HAPPY MIND
The children have been introduced to a new scheme within school.
My Happy Mind will support the children to understand their brains and teach the children habits to support their mental health, resilience and self-esteem.
Sessions will be taught weekly and the children will have an opportunity to journal their thoughts, feelings and ideas!
Later this week, Miss Follan will share more information with you regarding the parental app and login information that you can access at home to support your child further.
Spring 1
Week 6
This weeek during we have had Design and Technology day focussing on food technology. We made pizza! We learned the history of pizza, the food content, ingredients and even taste tested toppings! We conducted market research within our class to find out what flavour of pizza was our favourite. We learned how to chop, grate, grate and knead - all skills required in pizza making! Finally, this afternoon we combined our skills to make the pizza!
Week 5
We have planned our retell for Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause. We are focussing on the scene where Jack Frost tricks Santa into saying a specific phrase which ignites magic making Jack Frost Santa!
We have learned the skill of using an emotion first to add dramatic effect so we are using these to enhance our retell!
Well done Hazel’s you’re working very hard!
Week 4
This week we have been writing sentences beginning with an emotional followed by a comma to add dramatic effect to our writing. We used our favourite picture books to look at the characters, understand their emotions/feelings and write sentences.
For example:
Excitement bubbling, Jack Frost grinned mischievously as he handed Santa the snow globe.
Week 5
We have planned our retell for Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause. We are focussing on the scene where Jack Frost tricks Santa into saying a specific phrase which ignites magic making Jack Frost Santa!
We have learned the skill of using an emotion first to add dramatic effect so we are using these to enhance our retell!
Well done Hazel’s you’re working very hard
Week 3
We have explored solids, liquids and gases. We have looked at a range of items such as honey, shaving foam, cola, flour, ice and oil.
We have classified them and explored their differences and similarities! We discovered that some items, such as jam can be classified as a solid and a liquid based on its state of matter!
Week 2
This week we had our Hindu workshop where the children heard stories relating to the Hindu religion and the deities, learnt some dancing from their celebrations and were given the opportunity to dress up and play some music using batons. They all had a wonderful morning and even got the chance to buy their own diva souvenir!
Week 1
We began our Ancient Egyptian day by listening to the story about history of Ancient Egypt from how the pyramids were built to the different pharaohs. We then completed a quiz an Ancient Egyptian quiz using our comprehension skills to skim and scan the pieces of text to find our answers. We moved around different tables to find specific pieces of information needed to answer the questions.
After break, we looked at several different artefacts and their importance in Ancient Egypt. We looked at a heart stone which was believed to tell the God Anubis whether you have been good or bad. On the back it was scribed with hieroglyphics which translated to say ‘Please heart tell the gods all the good things I have done, but not the bad things’. We held a stone which was carved over 3,000 years ago and was used in real mummification. We also saw real mummification bandages which were 3,000 years old.
The children then played an ancient Egyptian game of snakes and ladders. We worked in pairs to race to the top of the tree with all three of our counters. We were very competitive!
This afternoon, we went to what we thought was the Pharaohs party. However, he died! This then turned into us learning all about mummification and how the brain, intestines and other internal organs were taken out of the body, but the heart was left in. We bandaged up the body to make it a money and put it into its coffin. We have learnt so much about Ancient Egypt today!
Autumn 2
Week 7
ART
This week, we have been exploring ways to block print, we have been inspired by the artist Rosalind Monks to carve insects into styrofoam and design pattern work on them. These will be used in future lessons to paint and block print.
They look great, well done Hazel!
Week 6
SPANISH
This week during Spanish we have been learning our colours! We have been speaking, listening and writing them. We used our knowledge to write sentences about our friend’s favourite colours!
Well Done!
Week 5
SCIENCE
Well done Hazel class, you have worked so hard to classify plants to a criteria. We can confidently ask and write or own questions!
Keep up all the hard work :)
Week 4
MUSIC
We have been beginning to learn to read music! We are understanding the notes, rhythm and tempo. We are learning to play a song on the glockenspiel and sing along too.
PE
Continuing our indoor athletics we have been learning forehand and backhand! We are enjoying linking lots of skills together to develop our skill and knowledge.
GEOGRAPHY
This week we have been expanding our knowledge of different cities and settlements within Europe. We have learned how satellite maps can support OS mapping to help us identify human and physical features.
Week 3
In writing this week we have been expanding our vocabulary and sentence types by introducing questions. You can see us here sharing our idea's for question sentence starters with our friends.
Week 2
We have been having a fantastic time with GTFC coaches during our PE sessions this week. We are learning so many new skills!
Week 1
The first week…
We had a super week last week, we began our Geography unit of learning all about Europe using an atlas to find countries. We had a super PE session with the GTFC coaches and spent lots of time getting to know our new routines!