Bishopsteignton Primary School

News Stories

• Exploring light
  Inventors and Pioneers spent an afternoon this week exploring how light travels in straight lines.
• Making Habitats
  At Forest School this week we learnt about habitats. We looked at some habitats of the creatures that lived in the woods and then we had a go at building nests!
• Who Am I?
  The Explorers loved guessing who the babies were in the photos!
• Victorian Lessons
  In today's Topic lesson, the children took part in Victorian role play activities. We had English lessons where we used slate (and some black paper with chalk) to write on as well as practising chanting poems at the same time.
• Chinese New Year Celebrations
  Today we made a stir fry. We used knives and peelers to prepare the vegetables, later we used the microwave to cook the noodles.
• Words Hoops
  Today in phonics some of the Explorers played a physical reading game.
• Writing Digraphs
  We are becoming brilliant readers and writers. We have been learning how to recognise our digraph sounds (two letters holding hands and making one sound) in words and captions.
• Exploring 8
  Today we found out about the number 8.
• Design Technology
  In our Design Technology lesson this week, we studied Roman aqueduct design.
• Dragon's Den
  We have been learning about Victorian inventions. We found out about the problems that were solved by these inventions.