St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Thame
Inspired to be our best.....
Friday 17th May 2019
Exploring Colossal Cuttlebrook
On Wednesday 18th May, about three groups mixed with Year 3 and 4, went on a wild hike in Cuttlebrook.
While the rest of the school were hard at work, our classes left school to make maps using symbols. We worked in teams to build a map, step by step, of what we saw around us.
Corey said “It was awesome because of all the wild animals, and it was extremely sunny!”
By Gabe
Thursday 9th May 2019
St. Mary's Church
The next step on our tour around Thame was to St. Mary's Church. Here we learnt all about the history of this old church and how religion has changed in Thame over the last 1000 years. We took some time to look around at the church including; the stained glass windows that represent some important parts of Jesus’ life, the Saxon font and the tomb of Lord William. We also took some time to look round some of the beautiful grounds.
Thank you to our parent volunteers Mrs Evans and Mr Blayney who helped make the trip seamless. We would also like to thank Jackie from the church who helped organise our time there and Rosalie who took the time to tell us also she knew about the history and practices at the church.
Thursday 2nd May 2019
Thame High Street - 1890 to now!
We have kicked off our Local Study topic by exploring all about how our high street has changed over the years. On Monday, we started by looking at pictures from various points on the high street that go back as far as 1890 and also some pictures of the same spots in 2009. We worked in pairs to compare what was the same and what was different about these two pictures. We then decided that Thame has still changed a lot from 2009, so we decided to go out and see how these spots around Thame have changed from 2009 to now. We loved our giant game of 'spot the difference' today and took the time to discuss why Thame might have had these changes.
Monday 4th March 2019
Mummified tomatoes
Today we got the chance to look back at our mummified tomatoes that we created last term. We observed the significant changes that took place over the past few weeks and made some excellent conclusions about the effectiveness of salt as a preservative.
Friday 15th February 2019
Egyptian God Artwork
To end an amazing term of Egyptian learning, we decided to take on a group challenge, to create a life size Egyptian God. All groups worked super well throughout the day, despite facing many challenges. We loved the compliments that we received from staff around the school.
Have a look at our creations!
Tuesday 12th February 2019
The exploration of Tutankhamen’s Tomb
This term, we have been learning about the story of Howard Carter during the exploration of Tutankhamen's tomb, and the diary entries he wrote. In order to experience how it would really real to enter a 3000 year old tomb, we decided to create our own.
Tuesday 29th January 2019
What a day! We have delved into the disgusting world of mummification! For our science experiment, we are testing how much salt is needed to effectively mummify a tomato. Have a look at how we got on!
Monday 17th December 2018
To start of our week of Maths, we were set a very difficult challenge - to build a Christmas Tree out of nothing but straws and blue tac. We had to use our great teamwork to come up with a plan as a group, and then used our problem solving skills to build our tree, working through every fall and difficulty along the way. We thought we used lots of patience, resilience, listening skills and co-operation! Have a look at some of our creations!
Tuesday 20th November 2018
As part of our Science topic 'Sound', we have been exploring pitch through musical instruments. Today, we made our own pan pipes out of straws to test how the pitch changes when we blew into different length straws. We had great fun!
Friday 16th October 2018
Fossil making
Over the last few weeks, we have been learning about how fossils are formed and researching the great paleontologist - Mary Anning. We decided we were going to link our science learning to our maths by measuring all the ingredients needed to make our own salt dough. We then made imprints into our dough to create our own fossils. Have a look at some of our creations!
Tuesday 13th October 2018
Volcano Eruptions
Wow! What an amazing day! We have loved designing and building our volcanoes over the last week. Creating our volcano structures was a little challenging but we used our excellent growth mindset to keep going and we were rewarded by getting nice and messy when doing our papier-mâché. When our structure had dried, we used our best creative eye to paint our landscape onto our volcanoes.
To finish off our volcano-making project, we invited our parents in to see our 'Ring of Fire' and watch the violent eruptions of our volcanoes. Thank you to all the parents who took time out of their busy days to come and see our eruptions. We loved sharing that experience with you!
Wednesday 26th September 2018
Structure of the Earth
What a fantastic week, we really enjoyed kicking off our topic with a bang! We have started to learn all about volcanoes by looking at some famous volcanoes around the world. We then explored how volcanoes are formed by studying the structure of the earth. We made our own earth models out of play dough and then cut them open to see what layers were inside. Have a look at some of our creations!
