Friday, 21 December 2012

Christmas Steel Drum Performance by Year 3

This term Year 3 have been learning how to play steel drums in their music lessons.



Yesterday, they gave a fantastic perfomance to an anticipatory Key Stage 2 audience, the amazing results can be seen in the video below.

Christmas Celebrations

Lots of extra fun things have been going on at school this week in between the usual fun learning.

The whole school had a very special visitor; Santa took time out of his busy schedule to pay us a visit here at Easton Primary School.

Santa and his Elf visit Reception

Early Years and Key Stage 1 both performed amazing Christmas Nativities for parents and the rest of the school.
Key Stage 1 Nativity

Monday, 17 December 2012

Yr 6 Topic trip to M Shed and Arnos Vale Cemetery

The Year 6 topic this term is World War Two. To enhance the learning of this topic we were lucky enough to visit two different learning locations.

M Shed gave us insight into what life was like during the second World War.

School during WW2.

Arnos Vale Cemetery allowed us to learn about and pay respect to some of the events of the war.



Quiz (please answer below in the comments box):

  1. What year did World War 2 start and what year did it end?
  2. Can you name the leader of the Allied Army in Britain - extra point for his or her nickname?

Tuesday, 11 December 2012

Yr 4 Ancient Egypt Topic Trip

Year 4 are studying Ancient Egypt this term. Yesterday both classes visited Bristol Museum to discover more about this fascinating topic.

An Ancient sarcophagus


 Quiz:
What are the above jars called, and what were they used for?


Did you know? - The Egyptians used to mummify their cats to take to the afterlife.