Eastcombe Primary School

Year 4 Maths investigation using smarties to recognise what fractions look like and creating bar charts to show the results.  

As part of our Anglo-saxon topic children completed a DT project, in which they created their own Anglo-saxon houses using card, cardboard, clay and paint. The models are nearly complete and many just need the finishing touches.

Today we had lots of fun exploring the outdoors. The river dipping was great fun and the children enjoyed carefully scooping up creatures in their nets from the river bed, before identifying them using their sheets. We followed this up with a mini-beast exploration activity in a small wooded area, before learning a little bit […]

Maths 99 club The 99 club is a weekly times tables based Maths test, which all of the children in KS1 and KS2 take part in. Over the past two weeks we have had a spurt of children from Hedgehog class move up the 99 club. A HUGE well done to all of these children: […]

Gymnastics As part of our PE this term, we have been taking part in fortnightly gymnastics sessions at our local secondary school (Thomas Keble). During this sessions we have spent time learning different balances, jumps and rolls (so far). The children have really enjoyed these sessions and are now fine tuning their own routines (in […]

In October 2018 the whole school had an Arts week. During this week we took part in a range of activities, which included: drumming knitting clay modelling sketching

As part of cooking and nutrition in DT, we discussed the principles of a healthy, nutritious diet. We also spent time making flapjack, as well as tasty fruit kebabs. Extra thanks to parent helper Mrs Webber 🙂

As part of this topic we completed some Art work, based on Stone Age cave paintings.