Blog by Helen Mackie

We learnt about networks and the internet today in computing. First we went around school and found the switch and the server. We found out that we can open the same thing on different computers in school.Then we passed messages within a group and then around the whole class, using the switch to…

We had our first violin lesson today. We learnt how to pick up the violin and which string is which. We did some keeping time games.

Thank you year 4, I have had an amazing first day with you all! I’m sure Mrs Neto and Mrs Ogden will agree that you are all brilliant! We had a great time this morning playing on the new equipment on the field.

Years 4 and 5 had an amazing time at Kepplewray! Everyone worked hard and tried their best. Many children really challenged themselves and achieved much more than they expected to. A huge thank you to the amazing staff from school who went above and beyond to support the…

We had a game of cricket with a difference today. 4 people batting and running at the same time. The fielders had to return the balls to Jo to stop the batters running.

I gave the children a selection of electrical equipment; bulbs, wires, crocodile clips and batteries. I challenged them to light up the bulb.

Bowling Skills today. We had lots of fun trying to knock over the wickets.

During our cricket session with Ji today we learnt how to hold the bat properly. We took turns batting and fielding.

We used post it notes to explore area. Each shape has an area of 4 postitnotes.

We worked together to create Mythical Monsters. We all drew  head then folded out paper and passed it to the next person, who drew the body. We repeated this till we had done the whole monster.

We had an egg hunt in our classroom.

We all came in wonderful costumes for world book day. We had great fun making up silly stories. Mrs Tyson came in and showed us all the books we can get with our book tokens. We also designed book covers for out favourite books and made a book paper chain.