Even though it has been a short half term we have still managed to pack a lot in, including playing football matches against St Andrew's and Harvington and celebrating the start of the pupil's homework presentations which has so far included fascinating talks on the eye, pandas, sports and how to draw Manga cartoons.
Welcome to Class 3!
Class 3 are taught by Mr Debenham and Miss Molloy.
Years 4 and 5 are taught in Class 3.
Class presentations
Manga drawing
The Human Eye
Sports
Pandas
Holidays
Tom Gates
Football v St Andrew's
The team photo.
Shaking hands after the match.
Church Lench on the attack.
The defence repels another attack.
Making our own switches.
Making a slider switch.
Planning our investigation.
Full concentration required.
A fabulous team effort.
Winter 2023
During the Autumn Term, after we had returned from Malvern the fun didn't stop there. We did lots of fun learning both in and outside the classroom! We went on a trip to Bishop's Wood to immerse ourselves in the Viking way of life, built electrical circuits, met a Viking storyteller, created our own music compositions and made ourselves book covers in DT. Here is a selection of photos from the Autumn Term.
Father Christmas comes to visit.
The reindeer are resting today!
The children are a little excited.
The tractor goes for refreshments!
Have you been naughty or nice?
Bubble Man
What's going to happen here?
Volunteers from the audience.
If it moves pop it!
Full concentration on the wonder of bubbles!
South and West African music
One group of dancers.
One group of percussion.
One group of singers.
And some body percussionists.
Exploring the United Kingdom.
Locating the countries...
Finding the capitals
Checking the spelling...
Perfect!
Making circuits
Let's light this place up!
Where shall we start?
Why isn't this working?
Writing up our findings.
Rock and Roll music
Rock and roll xylophone
All the little Comets!
Little Bill Hayleys!
Let's rock around the clock.
Making book covers
Perseverance to complete his cover.
Showing an interest in Harry Potter
A WW1 theme
Showing off her sewing skills.
A Viking skald arrives.
The storyteller arrives...
He looks vaguely like Mr D...
so he hides in the dark!
Identifying Viking artefacts.
Sorting the artefacts.
Searching for the descriptions.
Everything is in place.
The archaeologists celebrate a job well done!
Showing off our Viking pots
A heart-shaped pot.
She loves her pot.
The one handed display technique!
Showing off her ceramics.
Viking Experience at Bishop's Wood
All aboard the longship.
Posing in front of the longhouse.
The frames of the shelters go up.
The shelters are made waterproof.
Gathered around the fire.
We have ignition!
Look what we built!
The warrior approaches!
Row! Row! Row!
Around the cooking fire.
Another frame goes up.
We're in our house!
Welcome to our shelter.
The jeweller at work.
Making thread.
Clay pots are formed.
Autumn 2023
Welcome back! The new school year is already in full swing and we have already done lots of exciting learning. However, the highlight of theses first few weeks has obviously been the Malvern trip where the children faced their fears, worked together as a team and were complimented on being a fantastic group who were an absolute credit to the school. I was wowed by their behaviour, their manners, their bravery and the way they supported each other and it made me very proud to be leading the group. But you don't want me to waffle on...you just want to see the photos!
Summer Term 2022
Lots of fabulous activities this term including exciting learning inside and outside the classroom, trips out to go Bell Boating, a Sports Day, weekly swimming lessons and visitors coming in to give us a session of interactive Maths. We also had an exciting debate in RE, a whole day looking at The Pentecost (complete with a visit from Reverend Richard) and are working on making pop-up books in DT. We also had time to do some Courageous Advocacy - advocating for the Rainforest and were able to raise over £120 to send to the charity Cool Earth who work with indigenous tribes in The Amazon. All this and we still have a leavers' lunch and a leavers' service to fit in!
Bell Boating
Cake Sale and Soak Class 3 in aid of Cool Earth
Sports Day
Easter Holidays 2022
We have had a really busy term with a wide range of learning and lots of extra-curricular activities. It has been great to finally start to get out and about into the local community and further afield and to take our learning beyond the classroom walls.
We have visited the Hindu Temple in Birmingham, played football against Bengeworth, litter picked around Church Lench, had a visitor in from Evesham Abbey Trust and the term culminated with our Easter Service in the church which was well attended and was a credit to all the children who spoke beautifully and sang superbly.
Here are a few of the highlights of the term.
DT - Improving a Product
We started with some serious tasting of biscuits available in the shops.
Then we mixed ourselves batches of basic biscuit dough...
and cooked them in the oven.
Then more serious tasting was required!
We then cooked another batch with extra ingredients.
We displayed our final products...
with packaging, budgeting and design criteria.
And then it was time to invite the judges in!
The judging panel was made up of a range of experts!
The judges took their job very seriously!
And then we had to eat all the biscuits! Bon Appetit!
Football at Bengeworth
A mixed team of 10 boys and girls travelled to Bengeworth.
We played two games in a mini-tournament.
We picked up an excellent point against St Richards.
But sadly lost to the team from Bengeworth.
Everybody had a fabulous time despite the biting wind.
The team were an absolute credit to Church Lench - roll on the next game!
A fun term with lots of activities
We investigate how far sneeze droplets travel.
We see if a tissue helps to stop the spread of germs.
Some of the finds at litter picking were fascinating.
Getting ready to go out litter picking.
Scouring the village streets for litter.
A group shot after a satisfying time cleaning up in the community.
Using graphs to analyse data in science.
Analysis of animal size versus gestation periods.
We were visited by someone from the Evesham Abbey Trust who presented us with some books.
We practiced hard for the Easter Service.
We analysed different versions of the Last Supper on RE Day.
And we produced our own images of the Last Supper using mixed media.
A group visited St Egwins to do some tree planting.
A group practicing their dance routine in PE.
And we all love dressing up as Miss Molloy!
Spring Term 2022
The new term has started with some exciting learning including acting out the early part of 'Goodnight Mr Tom' (and then viewing the film) in preparation for our writing, discussing important issues such as appropriate behaviour in PHSE with Reggie the Monkey (you are only allowed to speak when Reggie is sitting with you) and investigating microbes in science - the classroom is currently full of mouldering fruit and bread (all carefully sealed, of course) - as we look at the effect of different locations on decomposition!
Autumn term 2021
The second half of the Autumn term was busy with a large number of activities in school and out. Children from Years 3 and 4 went to TDMS for a Quicksticks hockey tournament and everybody had an enjoyable time and one of our teams even made the semi-finals: not bad for a group of children who had only experienced playing hockey once of twice.
Later in the term Class 3 travelled to St Andrews to play the postponed football fixture from the first half term. Against a larger school we all performed very creditably and all had a wonderful day out with several star performances and a really good sporting attitude.
Back in the classroom we did some exciting learning including looking at creation stories in RE, learning about instruments of the orchestra in Music, using concrete resources in Maths and studying WW2. The highlight of the term was our visitor from Tastes of History who brought loads of artefacts from WW2 and even had us doing marching drills on the playground!
Although we weren't able to invite parents in for Christmas we were able to decorate the classroom, send each other lots of cards and rehearse and perform carols in the church. The videos of the performances are still available to watch oin Class Dojo.
Malvern Residential 2021
showing compassion and helping others
team work and perseverance
having high hopes
For With God Nothing is impossible!
enjoying friendships
We made it! Having high hopes
perseverance and resilience
As you can see from the above photos the children had a fabulous time at Malvern. They walked up hills, fired arrows, scaled climbing walls, scrambled up slippery tubes, lit fires, built shelters, solved problems, read maps and found clues, scrabbled around in the dark and sped down a long zipwire. They also made their own sandwiches (which was quite funny to watch) and attempted to put on their own duvet covers (which was really funny to watch).
I know that they have all learned skills and made memories, had fun and cemented friendships, learned to support each other and feel supported and it was a real privilege to watch them learn and grow and have fun.
Summer Term 1
We have had a busy half term of learning and we also finally got to go on a trip out of school!
In English we have been working on writing biographies and some fabulous work has been produced on the lives of Roald Dahl, David Bowie and Lewis Hamilton. Maths his involved looking at fractions and decimals and the whole class has done really well at coming to terms with this difficult concept and understanding the relationship between the two. In Science we have looked at electricity and built lots of different circuits to demonstrate how circuits work and to investigate different components. Topic has been rather taken over by our developing production of 'Romeo and Juliet' and the children are really starting to get into their roles! Here is a short selection of photos from this term, including some of our fabulous day bellboating!
We have done a bit of archery practice with a bow that a member of the class had bought from the Medieval Fair in Evesham.
Finally, here is a selection of pictures of us working on lots of other curriculum areas.
We recorded a video to show to Classes 1 and 2 telling them all about ourselves. We worked hard on some drama, did lots of PE and prepared Easter gifts for the children in classes 2 and 3 which were delivered by Mr Debenham accompanied by two of the Year 5 children. This was all part of work that we have been doing in PSHE about our school community.
We have started topic work and looked at William Shakespeare and have started rehearsing a short version of 'Romeo and Juliet' which we hope to be able to record and present next term!
Have a fabulous Easter and I look forward to seeing everyone back at school for the Summer Term.
Spring Term
Now that we are all back in school following lockdown mark 2 (or was it 3?) we have been making up for lost time by getting to know each other all again, re-forming our friendships and getting on with some work. We have done lots of energetic P.E., worked on fractions in Maths, completed play scripts in English and looked at vertebrates and invertebrates in Science. We have also continued our topic work by looking at William Shakespeare, his life and work ant tied that in to English through our plays.
Christmas
We have recently been practicing so that we can bring you a little bit of Christmas because we have not been able to do the traditional activities.
Click on the links to see what we have done...and if one of the children seems to be reading her poem floating sideways in mid-air, blame the cameraman!
Happy Christmas!
Here is the first link to our Christmas musical medley...the link to the acrostic poems, prayers and Away In A Manger should follow tomorrow. Let me know on Class Dojo if there are any issues with the link.
Apologies - I have had to take the link down and will try to put it on Class Dojo tomorrow.
November and December Learning
In Science we have been studying Animals (including Humans) and Living Things and their Habitats. Everyone was fascinated by the experiment we designed to test the effect of different drink types on teeth.
We have constructed our own food chains and also done some work on classifying animals.
In English we have analysed and written instruction texts and spent time writing some interesting non-chronological reports.
And we have also had fun exercising in the playground and running the Santa Dash dressed in our Christmas jumpers!
At the start of November the whole school came together for a (socially distanced) Remembrance event where everyone observed the two minutes silence and Mr Debenham played 'The Last Post' on the trumpet.
For video footage of the event click on the link below.