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Discoverers/Voyagers

  • This half term, Year 4 have thoroughly enjoyed their Forest school sessions and it has been a joy to see them demonstrate many of the Bishops' School Values.
  • Today, our Voyagers and Discoverers classes had the wonderful opportunity to take part in an immersive Egyptian outreach workshop.
  • This week in history, we have been diving into the fascinating world of Ancient Egypt by exploring the question: "How do pyramids help us know so much about life in Ancient Egypt?"
  • Voyagers and Discoverers have had many fabulous opportunities during British Science week to look at how sounds change and adapting to changes of sound.
  • This week marked the second Inter House event of the year.
  • Today, our Discoverers and Voyagers had a fantastic time applying different watercolour techniques during Art Morning!
  • Today, Voyagers and Discoverers took part in Safer Internet day by looking at the theme 'Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online'.
  • On Wednesday, our Year 3 children had a fantastic afternoon at Forest School, filled with adventure, creativity, and teamwork.
  • Voyagers and Discoverers had a challenge set to produce an interactive page with a complex moving mechanism.
  • This week in Art, the children explored the fascinating world of surrealism in preparation for creating their own surreal paintings inspired by the work of Salvador Dalí.
  • In Voyagers and Discoverers, we have started to learn about the linkages and levers that are used in moving picture books. We will eventually making our own moving picture page.
  • This term in RHE the focus is Health and well-being and we started of our learning by looking at Mental Health and the steps you can take to have positive mental health.
  • What a fantastic time we had at the Christmas craft morning in school!
  • Discoverers and Voyagers looked at a challenging topic, focusing on how and why food and minerals are distributed around the world.
  • Voyagers and Discoverers have been learning about the internet this half term. They have learnt so much about how the internet works and how to stay safe online. Well done!
  • Discoverers and Voyagers kicked off our first competitive Inter House event of the year.
  • Today at Bishop, we were extremely lucky to have professional gymnast, Courtney Tulloch visit our children.
  • This week, in DT, we learnt some useful cooking skills such as how to hold a knife correctly to chop vegetables and how to use a stove, before applying these skills to cook a tasty paella.
  • Bullying is not tolerated at Bishopsteignton Primary School. We frequently discuss friendships and how to deal with problems in RHE lessons but also get involved with Anti-Bullying Week.
  • WOW! We have been blown away by the ways that children have started their multiplication and division learning for this half term.
  • The children acted out their own cooking show based on their learning so far in DT and Literacy.
  • With a cross curriculum link between Art and History, the children designed and created their own cave drawings.
  • This week, to end their learning about Prehistoric Britain, the children explored a variety of sources of evidence linked to Iron Age religion
  • The children had a fantastic (and wet) morning taking part in activities that immersed them in the lives of people from the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age.
  • This week, we learned how beliefs were shown in the Bronze Age.
  • Voyagers and Discoverers read and explored several counting poems today. Aiming to inspire a love of poetry as part of National Poetry Day.
  • This half term, the Voyagers and Discoverers are developing their tennis skills and we have been very impressed with their ball and racket skills.
  • The children bounced their hearts out to raise money for FOBS.
  • The children thought very carefully about how their words can build others up or bring them down.
  • This week, we used some historical sources to build a picture of Early Stone Age life.
  • The children showed great problem solving skills and collaboration while trying to create a complete electrical circuit.
  • The children spent their first art lesson exploring drawing with different materials.
  • Today Year 3 had a lot of fun building their own 3-D shapes from a range of construction materials including straws, match sticks, and plasticine.
  • The children were fantastic scientists when setting up their investigation to see what a marigold plant needs to survive and grow.
  • The children conducted fieldwork on Luxton's Step and around the village.
  • This week, the children have been developing their overarm throwing techniques.
  • Discoverers spent some time exploring new, exciting books in the school library and reading with Explorers.
  • The children took part in role play and posed to show snapshots from different parts of the story.
  • We created lifelike paintings of flowers by observing their features closely like real botanists.
  • Voyagers and Discoverers have created two amazing pieces of writing about the searching for specific creatures in our woodland.
  • Year 4 have just returned from our residential trip to Forest and Beach Outdoor Education Centre.
  • Voyagers and Discoverers used all their knowledge of vertebrates to help them classify their choice of creatures from the islands of the UK or New Zealand.
  • The children have been fantastic this week in Maths lessons when looking at parts of whole (decimals and fractions) and demonstrating their understanding in many ways.
  • This week in Science, Discoverers and Voyagers have kicked off the Animals topic by investigating invertebrates.
  • Wow! What incredible artists we have in Voyagers and Discoverers.
  • Today in Design and Technology we were making torches. We used our knowledge and skills from science to help us construct a working circuit, thinking carefully about conductors and insulators to help us.
  • Year 3 and 4 took part in some fantastic Science learning across the week.
  • We have loved to see the children in their wonderful outfits, celebrating their favourite books and authors for World Book Day.
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