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  • Sycamore 2's Learning Journey

    2026-2027

    Autumn 1

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    Harvest Experience

    The children learnt all about what harvest means during our visit to the Church, learning how important it is to be giving and share what we have with others. 
     

    AYLA

    The children made a fabulous start the Archbishop's Young Leader Award and learnt all about what makes a great leader. We looked at qualities that leaders need to have and qualities the children already have. These skills include listening, teamwork, being respectful and compromising. 
     


     

    Learn and perform

    The children performed brilliantly during our Learn and Perform all about Ancient Greece.


    Robotics workshop

    The children had a fantastic afternoon learning all about robots where they got to build a Lego robot and install the programme to make it work. 
     

    English

    The children learnt how to use subheadings and paragraphs in our lesson today.

    English

    The children were visited by a robot this morning to kick off our new topic of writing about the book So Many Questions About Robots. 

    English

    The children were surprised with a mysterious chest and a letter left in their classroom. Inside the chest, there were lots of weird and wonderful things to explore. The children realised the items were left by the grandfather of our new story, encouraging us to explore Atlantis. 
     

     

     

     

    2025-2026
    Bug hunting

    Looking for bugs and creatures and thinking about how to classify them.

    Commando Joe's

    Learning about team work and respect.

    Commando Joe's

    We had to keep the balloon in the air and everyone had to touch it for the game to end. It was a tough team building task. But we did it! Good work Year 4!

    Commando Joe's

    Lots of team building activities and learning about resilience.

    Greek Clay Pots

    Commando Joe's

    Freddie Fit
     

    A hedgehog came to visit

    Commando Joe's

    Seven Acres school trip

    We had great fun on our school trip where we learnt about rivers and their features. We raced some rubber ducks to find out the speed of the river and we did some kick sampling to learn about the creatures that live in the river. It was a great day out and lots of learning and fun was had.

    Melting chocolate in science

    Which chocolate melted first?

    Making clay pots

    Commando Jo's

    Easter Service 

    Year 4 put on a lovely performance all about the Easter story. 
     


    Easter Experience

    Year 4 visited the church to experience the stations of the cross and learnt all about the Easter story.

     

    Mad Science

    The children learnt to code robots.

    Plague Doctor art

    Year 4 made an art piece about a plague doctor.

    Making a pulley model

    Year 4 made a model of a pulley-operated door

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    door.

     

    This week, all KS2 children took part in an interactive online safety assembly and then all Year 4 and Year 5 classes had individual workshops looking at how to stay safe online. 
     

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    A visit from the plague doctor

    Using materials to make a structure

    We had to make a structure using materials and decide which was the best one to use. We discovered that corrugated card was the strongest and the best to use. We found that fabric was too flimsy.

    The digestive system

    We had to make the digestive system.

    Wild Wild Science

    Some animals were brought into school this week.

    The Reindeer came to visit

    What an amazing experience to have some of Santa's reindeer come to visit school. Donna and Blitzen took the day off and came to see us at school. What fun that was.

    Ancient Greek pots

    Year 4 have been planning, designing, creating their own Greek pots. It's been a lot of messy fun, but we've learnt how to plan a panel to carve into the wet clay, we've learnt how to use the pinch pot technique and the coil technique to mould our pots, and we have learnt how to paint our design onto the pot.

    Panto - Aladdin

    The children thoroughly enjoyed watching the pantomime that came to school. There were lots of laughs, shrieks, boos, hisses, cheers and excitement.

    Festive Freddie Fit

    Year 4 trip to Eureka