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Children in Year 6 and Year 3 have been taking part in a very exciting Project this year. The ‘Erasmus + Profile Project‘, aims to facilitate learning financial literacy in EU schools. Run by the University of Gloucestershire, the project has partner schools in Italy, Croatia, and Hungary, with St Edward’s working with the project…

Year 3 have been exploring different types of lines in their Maths lessons this week. They have discovered that parallel lines never intersect, and are always the same distance apart for their entire length. They have also learnt that perpendicular lines are those which cross each other at a right angle. They worked in groups…

Mrs Dobson’s Year 3 Drama group transformed into superheroes this week! They each dressed up as their favourite superhero and used physical and vocal expressions to embody their different characters. The act of donning their superhero outfits enabled Year 3 to feel empowered and was a fantastic opportunity for the children to improve their verbal…

Year 3 have been learning about the process of ‘dissolving’ in their science lessons this week. A concept that many of the pupils were familiar with before the lesson, but that not all would have given any real thought to… until now! Gathering granular substances that are commonly found around the home (for example, sugar,…

This term, Year 3 pupils have been looking at the skeleton, in particular, the spine. To tie in to this topic Mr McKernan took both Year 3 classes for a lesson on the Farm. The lesson began with a virtual chat, which both classes joined using ‘Teams’. Mr McKernan talked the pupils through the anatomy…