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Curiosity Corner

When children are healthy, happy and safe, curiosity is ignited and learning is optimised. In this section, you will find out what children in school and nursery have been learning this week.

September 2022

  • Year 1 news

    Published 29/09/22

    This week, Year 1 have been looking at the life stages of a human. We learnt that we start as a baby, turn into a toddler, next we become a child, then grow to be a teenager, next we become an adult and finally we become the elderly. Year 1 did at great job at working co-operatively to show these life stages on their timelines!

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  • Good Morning from Arthog!

    Published 29/09/22

    Good morning from all the Year 6 children at Arthog. The children have been enjoying an action packed week, we can't wait to hear all about your adventures when you return!

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  • Separating materials

    Published 29/09/22

    Y5 are continuing their learning about materials. We have been separating different mixtures of materials using a range of processes; including sieving, magnetism and decanting.

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  • Why did the Romans invade Britain?

    Published 29/09/22

    In year 4 we are learning about what happened after the Romans. Who invaded Britain? Why? How?

    Today we focused on ordering and sequencing events after AD43 onto our own timeline.

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  • Greedy Crocodiles

    Published 22/09/22

    Last week, Year 1 we're using crocodiles to understand our 'greater than' and 'less than' stem sentences. We really enjoyed using the crocodiles and now understand that they are very greedy and always want to eat the greater number!

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  • Exploring Skeletons

    Published 22/09/22

    Year 3 have been learning to identify the major bones in the human skeleton. We learnt all the scientific names for each bone and then worked cooperatively to build a model skeleton.

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  • Three Billy Goats Gruff!

    Published 22/09/22

    This week, the Reception class have been reading 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'. We decided to have a go at building bridges of our own and looked at lots of different examples of bridges to help us. The children used a range of equipment and then thought about how they could test the bridges to see how strong they were. These investigations will carry on into next week.

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  • Welly Wanderers

    Published 16/09/22

    Children have enjoyed our Welly Wanderers sessions this week in Nursery. They explored the wood, played on the swing and loved their hot chocolate at story time!

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  • Stone Age artist!

    Published 16/09/22

    Year 3 have been learning about the Stone Age. We have looked at cave paintings and used charcoal and pastels to recreate our own Stone Age art!

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  • Amazing molecules

    Published 15/09/22

    In Year 5 we have been thinking about our knowledge of states of matter, including solids, liquids and gases. We learnt how molecules behave differently depending on their state and acted as molecules ourselves!

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  • We're going on a bear hunt!

    Published 15/09/22

    This week, the Reception class have continued to explore the story 'We're going on a bear hunt'. We tried to experience all of the things that the family did on their bear hunt. The children looked closely at the swishy swashy grass, they talked about what water felt like and they made some squelchy squerchy mud! We visited the little forest school area and acted out the whole story.

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  • Digestion models

    Published 13/09/22

     

    This week in year 4 we have been curious about how we digest our food. We co-operated in teams to create a live model of how this works! We had great fun and can explain the process really well now!

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September 2022