🌍Worldly Wise: Did you know that Ancient Roman soldiers used hopscotch in their training?

Worldly Wise Curriculum - a part of our curriculum entitlement

 

The Roman soldiers would have been dressed in full battle armour and trained to hop up and down a 100 foot-long series of squares that had been scratched into the ground to improve their strength and agility.  

These sort of interesting facts are what the children learn about in our Worldly Wise Assemblies.

Every week, pupils attend an interactive 'Worldly Wise' assembly where they build and grow their own body of general knowledge.  By knowing a little about a lot they will be able to place events and ideas in context in a variety of different situations.

This half term we will continue to explore 'playground games'.

We believe that education is about more than academic progress: it is about empowering every child to thrive in an ever-changing world. 

Children are encouraged to go home and do some research themselves, write an interesting fact down and give it to their teacher.  This will then be shared in assembly; they will be awarded with a certificate and become a true 'Fact Hunter'.

Fact Hunter

This award is in recognition of your insatiable appetite for knowledge and your ability to sniff out amazing facts.

Summer - for her facts about hamsters.

Fact Hunter

Well done for finding amazing facts.

Isabelle Curtis-Rich, Nina Joshi

Both of these young ladies found interesting facts about snails. 

Fact Hunter & Maths Challenge

These pupils have used their ability to think both mathematically and creatively to solve maths challenges.

Tilly Butler, Hannah Wellings, Gracee-May Coble

These children have demonstrated a thirst for knowledge by hunting for interesting and unusual facts.

Courtney Simpson, Daniel Kalusha, Oliver Pinnell, John Olatunji, Indie Sale, James Olatunji

Fact Hunter & Happy Teacher

These pupils have demonstrated their thirst for knowledge and are awarded fact hunter certificates.

Summer Baker, Sam Middleton, Courtney Simpson, Daniel Kalusha

These pupils are making sure that their teachers are smiling all week through.

Ellis Curtis-Rich, Sequoia class for their fabulous Sharing Assembly!

Fact Hunters, Happy Teachers & Rock Stars

Fact Hunter

Sienna Watson has demonstrated her thirst for knowledge and is rewarded with a fact hunter award.

Happy Teacher

These children have been making sure that their teachers are smiling everyday in school.

Connor Peppitt, Micayla Smith, Summer Wingrove

Rock Star Maths

These children have earned a reward in recognition of their tables thrashing, maths moshing and sum shrieking achievements.

Callie Rose Barnett, Timi Adelowo, Megan Robinson, Kabey Stevens

Fact Hunters

Ethan Himuyandi and Summer Baker have been awarded the prestigious fact hunter award for their constant thirst for knowledge and collection of amazing facts. Well done guys!

Fact Hunter

In recognition of their insatiable appetite for knowledge and your ability to sniff out amazing facts.

Frankie Woolnough, Sofia Raif, Kara Middleton

Learning Challenge

Well done to Finley, Archy and Cruz who have been creating their very own football infographic. Based around the footballing achievements of their two heroes (Ronaldo & Messi) the boys collected a range of facts and figures.

Amazing Ronaldo Facts:
Did you know that Ronaldo...

• is Portugal's all-time top international goalscorer?
• is the winner of the Ballon d'Or, footballer of the year award, four times (2008, 2013, 2014, 2016) and the European Golden Shoe four times (2007-08, 2010-11, 2013-14 and 2014-15)?
• paid for the brain surgery of a 10-month-old boy?

Fact Hunter

These children have been awarded a fact hunter award in recognition of of their insatiable appetite for knowledege and their ability to sniff out amazing facts.

Yazmin Satti, Kaitlyn Smethurst, James Wise, Lilly Reynolds, Frankie Woolnough, Isabelle Munford, Ella Nash, Kara Middleton, Sofia Raif, Deniz Huseyin, Maliat Bakreen, Olivia Wheal

Fact Hunter

These children have been awarded a fact hunter award in recognition of of their insatiable appetite for knowldege and their ability to sniff out amazing facts.

Ramone Holme-Slater, Daniel Kalusha, Kaitlyn Smethurst, Fayo Ayodola, Yazmin Satti, Arya Shah, Henry Cruz Kokonchev, Chiwendu Nwaokolo

Fact Hunter

These children have an insatiable appetite for knowledge and an amazing ability to sniff our amazing facts.  

Jessica Butler, Maliat Bakreen, Gavin Butler, Paige McGeoghan

Year 3 Patterns Artwork

Our Year 3 pupils have been studying patterns in their latest artwork project. They linked this to their study of animals and looked at how some are able to adapt to their surroundings for protection as well as to help hunt their prey.

Can you spot any creatures lurking in the images below?

Some of our pupils then went on to find out more facts about the animals that inspired them:

Did you know that the chameleons tongue can reach its prey in just 0.07split seconds, with the projectile acceleration reaching over 41 g's of force. Chameleons usually eat large insects such as locusts, grasshoppers, crickets, and stick insects, some bigger species also eat other lizards and young birds.

Adam Abubakr

Bobby's Amazing Facts

Bobby has been using his independent learning time to find out a whole host of facts about a very interesting creature... The Vampire Squid!

I have really enjoyed finding out about this animal. Here are five interesting facts about them:

1. Despite their scary name, they aren’t very big (or dangerous). In fact they only measure about 30 cm long, including their arms.
2. Vampire squid have the largest eyes in the animal kingdom compared with their size. Their eyes are about an inch long.
3. They are very unique animals and are the only surviving member of their order, with attributes of squid and octopuses. They also feel more like jellyfish.
4. When threatened, they are able to turn themselves inside out. They are entirely covered in light-producing organs that they use to disorient potential predators. They can turn these lights on and off, making them almost invisible in the dark waters of the deep. Instead of the ink that normal squid use, vampire squid shoot out mucus at predators. This mucus can glow in the dark for almost 10 minutes, further confusing their predators.
5. They live in very deep, cold water in oceans around the world between 600-900 metres below the surface where there is very little oxygen in the water.

Fact Hunters

Congratulations to our latest Fact Hunters: Vinnie & Isabelle! 

Vinnie O'Leary

Did you know that most sharks species will drown if they stop moving? Great white, mako and salmon sharks don't have the muscles they need to pump water through their mouth and over their gills. As long as they keep swimming, water keeps moving over their gills, keeping them alive.

Fact Hunters: Butterflies & Black Holes

Armani Peek

Did you know that butterflies can't hear, but they can feel vibrations? I was also amazed to find out that butterflies taste with their feet!

Martina Rensch

In my research I found out that butterflies don't have lungs. Instead they are able to breathe through openings on their abdomen called 'spiracles'.

Sascha Raif
Did you know that black holes are massive objects – collections of mass – with gravity so strong that nothing can escape, not even light? The most common types of black holes are the stellar-mass and supermassive black holes.

 

Fact Hunters: Turtles & Pandas

This week we have had a tremendous number of interesting facts being shared by the children. Congratulations to the following children who have amazed us with their ability to hunt out interesting snippets of information:

Evie Cottam
Sadly urgent action is required to prevent an endangered turtle that breathes through its bottom from being wiped out. The white-throated snapping turtle was recently listed as critically endangered by the Australian government.

Emily Russell
Worryingly there are only 1864 pandas left in the wild and just 300 in captivity!

Plamen Vasilev
Amazingly Romans used to bleach their hair using a combination of salt, vinegar and urine!

Megan Mae Burnett
Did you know that Novak Djokovic was once offered £100,000 to lose a match deliberately?

Fact Hunters: Birds & Jaguars

Evan Andrews
Believe it or not there are over 9,500 species of bird around the world.

Alffie Pilcher
Did you know that the Jaguar gets its name from the Native American word yaguar, which means "he who kills with one leap”?

Martina Rensch
Did you know that butterflies are able to produce a special type of glue that allows them to stick their eggs to leaves.

Armani Peek
Did you know that butterflies can't hear, but they can feel vibrations?

Fact Hunters

This week we have had a tremendous number of interesting facts being shared by the children. Congratulations to the following children who have amazed us with their ability to hunt out interesting snippets of information:

Jessica Sampson
Incredibly the River Amazon holds more water that the other three longest rivers put together!

Isabelle Munford
Did you know that the name for the first type of humans was Australopithecus - which means Southern Ape. However the skeleton that was found was nicknamed Lucy!

Fact Hunters

Congratulations to our latest group of Fact Hunters.

Sky Griffiths

Did you know that the longest known case of hiccups took 68 years to cure?