Wonderful writing

A selection of Lion King recounts from our 'Wonderful Writing Wall'.

Making a Roman oil lamp

As part of our history topic on the Romans the Year Four children have learned this week how to make roman oil lamps from clay. We saw two thousand year old oil lamps on our visit to Verulamium last week and now the children have designed and made their own.  Next week we will be asking the children to be the teachers when we open Year Four to parents after school and the children share their new skills by teaching mum, dad or their grandparents how to make an oil lamp of their own.

Year Four visit the Lyceum Theatre in London to see the Lion King

What a busy time Year Four are having at the moment. This week we have been to London's Lyceum Theatre to see the Lion King. The children really enjoyed the spectacular show from our amazing seats in the Grand Circle. The music, costumes, dancing and ever changing sets were all spoken of as favourites when we spoke to the children after the performance. Recounts of the visit will be written by the children later this week and they will be displayed on our 'Wonderful Writing Wall' in Year Four. Thank you so much to our fantastic parent helpers and to the Parent Teacher Association who generously contributed to the cost of the trip.

Verulamium

Verulamium Museum was a fantastic setting to learn all about how the Romans lived in Britain. The four Year Four classes attended workshops where they could handle objects that the Romans left behind over 2000 years ago. In the museum galleries we looked at real roman mosaics from the villas of Roman St Albans so that we can later make our own at school. Visiting the roman hypocaust in the afternoon gave all of the children a great glimpse at one of the oldest surviving central heating systems in this country.