Year 4 visited the Roman Baths today as part of their Roman Britain history learning! They made mosaics, looked at artefacts and replicas and even met a Roman in the Great Bath! @RomanBathsBath@PalladianTrust pic.twitter.com/b82PjUIaXf
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October 7th 2024
This afternoon in PSHE, year 5 explored collaborative behaviours that contribute to positive group work through the challenge of building a newspaper tower! We discussed top tips for working in groups and added these to our class charter. @PalladianTrust pic.twitter.com/Xmos33ouJf
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October 7th 2024
Today in maths, year 5 enjoyed using our brand new place value counters to flexibly partition and decompose numbers with hundredths. Using manipluatives helps all of our children to gain a really secure understanding of this process. @PalladianTrust@NCETM pic.twitter.com/JPf35Ribio
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September 28th 2024
We are scientists! Last week, Year 6 proved that light travels in straight lines. This week, we worked out that it is possible to see round corners... by reflecting light using mirrors! @PalladianTrust pic.twitter.com/HAhfsl25ii
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September 27th 2024
Year 5 had a fantastic afternoon visiting Bath Children’s Literature Festival and hearing Katherine Rundell talk about her wonderful books. The children were so engaged and couldn’t wait to get to the park to read their signed copies of her latest book! @PalladianTrust pic.twitter.com/91PAkR5tOV
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September 23rd 2024
Classes across our school are using @voice21oracy strategies to generate ideas and learn through talk. Here is the ‘traverse’ technique in action during year 5’s class worship this morning. @PalladianTrust pic.twitter.com/42gX3GYYAG
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September 23rd 2024
Wet play has put a stop to outdoor OPAL today! But…our creativity during play never stops and year 5 have set up a Combe Down fish and chip shop including a computer, food, menu and fake money! @PalladianTrust@OPAL_CIC pic.twitter.com/wabYa0KfLS
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September 20th 2024
Year 2 have enjoyed using their @voice21oracy talk tactics to discuss rights and responsibilities during PSHE! @PalladianTrust pic.twitter.com/PhxRElmT2M
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September 20th 2024
Year 5 enjoyed leaf cutting, printing and tyre transportation during forest school this week! We were briefly interrupted by some thunder and lightning which led to lively discussions about what a lightning conductor is! @PalladianTrust pic.twitter.com/eu9OS6Jm7r
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September 20th 2024
Year 5 and 6 have put their code to the test today by sharing their board games with year 4 pupils! Overall, our coding was mostly bug-free as the year 4s were able to understand and enjoy our games! @PalladianTrust#NationalCodingWeek pic.twitter.com/5sYZzeHPPz
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September 20th 2024
Year 5 have been working scientifically and completing comparative tests to test the hardness, transparency and magnetism of a range of solids this week. We made predictions, recorded our results and reached conclusions. We are scientists! @PalladianTrust pic.twitter.com/Hp5XNPPkQM
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September 19th 2024
During SLT, one of our inspiring Assistant Heads talked passionately about teaching climate change #curriculumdrivers@PalladianTrust pic.twitter.com/fYcA6U6tpk
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September 18th 2024
An incredibly inspiring PDM looking at our next steps with @voice21oracy and how we can build on our oracy foundations to elevate learning through talk! @PalladianTrust pic.twitter.com/FEcMlnHfkJ
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September 17th 2024
Year 5’s #nationalcodingweek challenge was to write the sequence, conditions and properties for their own twist on a Snakes and Ladders game! We will identify bugs in our code when we test it with year 4! @PalladianTrust pic.twitter.com/uhn3csehbi
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September 17th 2024
Year 4 explored which electrical components make a working circuit in Science today! @PalladianTrust pic.twitter.com/E2dCYQctvB
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September 16th 2024
Our EYFS children had lots of opportunities to practise the sound ‘s’ today after their first phonics lesson. We are so proud of them! @PalladianTrust pic.twitter.com/03Gw6ToHmB
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September 16th 2024
Our computing lead Mr O’Neill has launched national coding week during assembly today! The children can’t wait to get stuck into their coding challenges and share them with other classes later in the week! #nationalcodingweek@PalladianTrust pic.twitter.com/eAq6Qrdunc
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September 15th 2024
The Year 3s have been busy in Forest School celebrating the autumn equinox, leaf cutting and using the cut leaf patterns for hapa zome. They made some really beautiful creative work and enjoyed a bit of autumnal sunshine! @PalladianTrust pic.twitter.com/tiZGg6Jc7a
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September 13th 2024
Year 1 have been busy with activities inspired by our Lost in the Toy Museum book! @PalladianTrust pic.twitter.com/utV1LlkyOA
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September 13th 2024
Today was House Captain Election Day! Our courageous candidates delivered some amazing speeches, proving that we have many inspirational young leaders here at Combe Down. The KS2 electorate embodied our value of respect and individual liberty wonderfully! @PalladianTrust pic.twitter.com/ZUQEu4pOIu
