Here you will find out about all of the exciting things we take part in at Lydiate - both in and out of school hours.

• Sycamore trying their hand at Anglo Saxon building techniques

  Thu 05 Mar 2020 Mrs F.
  

• Rowan class measuring their books for World Book Day!

  Thu 05 Mar 2020
  Today for World Book Day we had to use all of our measurement skills so far. We had to measure our books in length and also mass to see who had the longest book and who had the heaviest book!

  

• Rowan and Sycamore reading together during World Book Day!

  Thu 05 Mar 2020
  

• World Book Day

  Thu 05 Mar 2020
  What a super day we're all having, celebrating the wonderful world of books and some of the amazing characters that come out of them. Thanks to all parents/carers who helped make and choose fantastic costumes for the children - they look amazing!

  

• World Book Day: Birch and Maple Shared Their Books

  Thu 05 Mar 2020 Mr Hannaford and Mrs Foulkes
  

• Birch Class Went On A Caterpillar Hunt

  Thu 05 Mar 2020 Mr Hannaford
  In Birch, we have been exploring evolution and adaptation. Each group was given a different coloured caterpillar (string) and they had to place it in a suitable habitat. All children chose a habitat that camouflaged their caterpillars. This meant that the predators could not find their prey.

  

• World Book Day - Elm

  Thu 05 Mar 2020
  There are some fantastic costumes on show and some brilliant explanations of who the characters are and their actions. 

  

• Place Value Practise - Elm

  Wed 04 Mar 2020

  In preparation for assessment week Elm have been recapping our place value, as well as column addition and subtraction.  After smashing our 3 digit addition earlier in the week, we used base 10 to practically demonstrate and practise how we exchange and regroup our tens and ones in column subtraction.  We used a poem to remember the important rules:

   

  More on top? No need to stop!
  More on the floor? Go next door and exchange 10 more! 
  Numbers the same? Zero is the game!

   

  Using a guided exercise on the board, we beat all of the calculation challenges showing our brilliant knowledge. Next, we will apply our knowledge to conquer 3 digit column subtraction. 

  

• Putting some muscle into it - Elm

  Wed 04 Mar 2020

  Elm have been learning about the function of muscles.  We started by writing questions we wanted to know about our muscles and explored the answers through fact cards.  We discovered voluntary, and involuntary muscles and which of our organs are a mix of different tissues.  We then demonstrated how muscles contract and pull our bones to help move our bodies. 

   

  After this we predicted which muscles we would use when we ran, spent our whole break running and then felt which of our muscles ached to see if our prediction came true!

  

• Oak class golf lessons today! Negative numbers galore...

  Wed 04 Mar 2020