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We are very lucky here at St Edward’s, to be able to offer whole-class instrument lessons. This term, it is the turn of our Year 4 pupils to pick up a violin and get playing! A notoriously tricky instrument to perfect, the children started slowly and began by familiarizing themselves with the parts of the…

As part of their science topic on Human Impact, Year 4 visited Westonbirt Arboretum this week and enjoyed taking part in a number of activities related to Woodland Management for Wildlife. The activities included looking for evidence of living things that use trees for shelter or food, a game called “Shrinking Forest” where they learnt…

Kodu is a 3D game development environment that is designed to teach children basic programming principles. Children in Year 4 have started to create their own games in Kodu, including building the terrain for their virtual world, populating it with characters and then programming their behaviours. This project builds on skills that the children have…

On Tuesday afternoon, Year 4 took part in an electrifying practical Science lesson! The children were asked to investigate a variety of materials to ascertain which were conductors and which were insulators. The children familiarised themselves with the properties that would class a material as a conductor (materials that allow electricity to pass through them…

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…

As part of their Science topic on Sound, Year 4 were set the challenge of making their very own musical instrument. It could be a string, percussion or wind instrument, and the children were asked to construct it using items they could find around the house like bottles, straws, boxes, tins and elastic bands! They…

Our Year 4 artists have been looking at the surrealist works of Salvador Dali in recent lessons. Famous for his dream-like paintings, Dali had a varied career, including working with Disney and designing the Chupa Chups logo! This week’s task involved drawing their own version of the ‘The Elephants’, featuring elephants atop long spidery legs….

Last week, Year 4 worked on their technique for drawing an eye using pencil. This week, they have been learning about Surrealism and building on their study of the eye by adding a surreal iris. The pupils were encouraged to examine their own eyes in the mirror before drawing. After sketching out the initial outline,…

Year 4 have had lots of fun learning about the states of matter in their recent Science lessons. Whilst learning about the different states, the children identified examples of solids, liquids and gasses that they were familiar with. They then spoke about the different properties of each of the different states before finding out the…

Year 4 have packed up their art materials and headed outside this week. To start their new project, they have been experimenting with various mark making techniques using graphite. The animals on the farm proved willing subjects with ‘Peppa’ and ‘Spot’ the Kune kune pigs a very popular choice. The four-legged models sparked lots of…