Bishopsteignton Primary School

News Stories

• Science
  Isaac Newton light spinners
• Experimenting with clay
  To start of our 'Get inpsired' topic, the children have looked at sculptures of local artist Barbara Hepworth before then exploring how clay can be manipulated and the skills they may need when creating their own sculptures.
• Fantastic perimeter learning
  Year 3 and 4 have been learning about what perimeter is and how to use different calculation skills to solve perimeter problems.
• History
  As part of our topic: Worldwide History, we have been finding out what food the Ancient Maya used to eat and how they grew the food or hunted it.
• Volleyball skills
  The children have been learning different types of shots used in the game volleyball. This week, they focused on learning the dig shot.
• Preparing for our non-chronological reports
  In English this week, the children used many skills to research facts about the Ancient Mayas to help them write their own information page.
• Computing - Different loops
  This week we looked at different types of loops: infinite loops and count-controlled loops.
• Discoverers reading reward
  Discoverers were lucky enough to spend some time exploring some amazing books in the library with some brownies, then travel to Explorers and read with the younger children.
• A fantastic forest school.
  WOW! Year 3 had a brilliant first Forest School session where the sun shone and they demonstrated so many of our school values.
• Magnificent multiplication
  The children have been using their multiplication and place value knowledge to multiply larger numbers.