After a week of careful planning and immersion into Peter Bunzl’s Cogheart , today is the big day! The children have been busy writing their Hot Task - a detailed setting description of the busy, clanking mechanical workshop. It has been wonderful to see them using expanded noun phrases and atmospheric vocabulary to bring the sounds of whirring cogs and hissing steam to life on the page. In Maths, we have shifted our focus to the properties of shapes. The children have been mastering the...

It has been an action-packed week as we transitioned from local history to the mechanical world of Victorian London. Here is a summary of our learning: This week, the whole school took part in our Trust Day: Time and Place . We spent time exploring our local area of Hockley , comparing what life and work were like in the past versus today. It was fascinating to see how the jobs in our community have evolved over the generations! We have officially begun our new unit on Cogheart  by Peter...