In history, the class learned about Skara Brae, the remarkable Stone Age settlement uncovered in Scotland. We explored how its discovery offers insights into how Stone Age people were beginning to change their ways of living. The children put on their journalist hats to write and present their own TV news reports. They tackled the history of Skara Brae with enthusiasm, transforming Oak Class into a bustling newsroom! We recreated the excitement of reporting live from the sce

In English, we are nearing the end of our story The First Drawing and have been retelling it through a “slow write,” taking extra care with our grammar. On Thursday, the children were incredibly proud to read their work aloud to the class.

In History, the class became archaeologists for the week! After learning about the Cheddar Man and exploring the UNESCO site of Skara Brae, they carried out their own excavation of a piece of “prehistoric rock,” discovering a sabre-toothed tiger tooth and ancient shells.

In DT, we are getting ready to make our real cushions. On Friday we have been honing our sewing skills—threading needles, practising different stitches, trying applique, and sewing on buttons. Today, we began putting all these skills together to start making the final cushions.

Friends of Swainswick put on a wonderful Christmas Fair on Saturday. There was a popcorn machine, bric-a-brac, a teddy tombola and Santa even set up a beautiful grotto! Lots of children were able to chat with Santa about the big day! Thank you to everyone who arranged, supported and attended this event - it was lots of fun.

It’s been great to welcome families into school this week for our parents evenings, and share with you the brilliant learning the children have been doing this term. Thank you for joining us. This week in assembly, we continued our discussions about this term’s value of thankfulness. We thought about things which gifts or items which are precious to us and how we might feel if we lost them. We then watched a video retelling of the Bible story, ‘The Lost Coin’, and considered

Apple class have been creating algorithms using J2code. We have learnt that algorithms are a set of instructions which we can use to make a 'sprite' move around. We used different templates for our algorithms and began to learn how to debug our codes. Our next change will be to add more sprites and try the advances mode!