CURLEWS

We were joined today by Matt, a community banker from NatWest.  He worked with us on a ‘Fraud Scene Investigation’.  Around the classroom, 6 pieces of evidence had been placed which may have contained clues about how Caitlin may have had her identity stolen. Working in small groups, the pupils examined each piece of evidence…

We have started a new unit of work in which we will be looking at the classic poem ‘The Highwayman’. In the first lesson, after looking at the image above, pupils were asked to write a description of the character.  The following three pieces (all first drafts, so there is some editing needed on spelling) used…

We enjoyed our Christmas dinner today and, following the Cubert tradition, wore our hats which we created earlier this week. Each of the Curlew’s hats featured a joke selected by the pupil as being one of their favourites – you could say that they cracked up when reading each other’s hat! It has been a…

Our most recent Science topic has been working with Electricity. After working on the basics, such as drawing circuit diagrams and seeing what happens in a simple circuit when extra batteries or bulbs are added, the pupils took part in a couple of investigations using the electrical kit. Firstly, by setting up a parallel circuit,…

We have been watching this year’s selection of Christmas adverts and deciding which ones we like the best.  Having identified the key features of writing a review, and the seeing the importance of giving your own opinion, everyone wrote a review of the advert they were allocated. The following two reviews (John Lewis by Phoebe and Argos…

After having identified the features which make up a good argument text, we researched some of the issues surrounding the banning of single plastics.  The class used these facts and figures to compile their own argument piece of work. Here is an example from Theo who effectively used emotive language to persuade the reader to…

…it is now. After weeks of excitement, it was a bit sad waking up this morning to know that Word Mania 2018 has ended. Working as a team, Curlews played over 3,200 games. The highest score, from Olly, was a quite incredible 10,020. After being consistently at the top of the South West regional chart,…

Round 1 of Word Mania is now over.  Curlews finished THIRD IN THE WORLD. I am so proud of everyone’s hard work this week.  Well done to each and every one of you. Just look how far we were ahead of the 2nd placed school in the South West leaderboard: And what is fantastic to…

We are hard at work at the moment working our way up the leaderboard for Word Mania. By the end of school on Tuesday we were in 1st place for the South West and were 4th in the World. Keep on making those words – what a great start, but the other schools are snapping…

On Monday we were lucky to have a visit from Dr Jackson (aka Iona’s dad) who spoke to us about Darwin’s theory of natural selection. As well as handling fossils, we discovered the four main features of natural selection.  You can read about these in Noly’s report: Thank you, again, to Angus for coming to…