Boothferry Primary School
On Monday 25th January, PC Day from Humberside Police force spent the morning with Year 5 and Year 6 as part of our health studies. He spent time explaining that Drugs fall into 3 categories. Those that stimulate, those that depress and those that cause hallucinations. All drugs are chemicals and change the way our
We have been using the Chocolate Room from Charlie and The Chocolate Factory to improve our descriptive writing. We were using fronted adverbials and similes.
For the entrance of the new Year 4 topic we invited chocolate by design to come and share their expert information with us. They told us all about where chocolate came from, how it is made, how to find the healthiest chocolate and most excitedly we tempered chocolate. They created a Chocolate Pizza Bake Off,
This week in Year 1 we have been reading "Aliens love underpants save the world". We retold the story in our own words, thinking carefully about the structure of our writing. On Wednesday, the Aliens visited us, leaving behind a trail of socks! We followed the trail to the school field where we found a
The first day back at school after the Christmas holidays, we came dressed as characters from myths or legends . We did a fashion show with a catwalk and everyone showed off their fabulous costumes. There was posing, we introduced our characters and shared some facts, such as where the story originated. We had lots
It was smiles all round for Mrs Marwood as she was awarded her 25 year service award by Mr M Harrington, a senior figure from the local authority. Having reached her milestone last term, she was the guest of honour in our Monday assembly. Mr Harrington remarked that hearing the children say please and thank
Year 3 have blasted back into the new term with the topic 'Active Planet'. When they entered the classroom on Tuesday, there was a giant earthquake crack down the classroom. They got straight to work investigating what had happened making their own news clips. The children also learnt first aid techniques and had fun with
On January 6th, the Year Five turned a classroom into a bike workshop. All the pupils learnt how to identify and mend a puncture, an essential life skill, particularly as we head towards 'The Big Peddle' and 'Goole's Big Bike day'. There are further maintenance sessions planned in the future. The following tutorial was created
As part of our Land, Sea and Sky topic, we used owl pellets to learn about food chains and what an owl eats. We had to wear a lot of safety equipment because owl pellets are made up of all the parts of an animal that an owl cannot digest and we needed to keep
To launch Year 4's new topic of Chocolate we spent our first day back at school in Willy Wonka's Chocolate factory. We have created chocolate play dough, designed factories, created our own characters, made board games, created a model factory using modrock and most excitedly... Tasted different chocolates!
