The Ancient Unknown as discovered in Northgate Garden!

 

Year 3 were very excited to have a 'deep excavation' appear in our garden. It was sectioned off into small areas and all year 3 spent part of their day digging like archaeologists, looking for any Egyptian artefacts buried beneath the soil.

 

Year 3 used their knowledge of stone age excavations back in the Autumn to ask and answer questions. In doing so they made discoveries of Egyptian sarcophagus, canopic jars, Pharaoh models, metallic jewellery and a papyrus based picture.

 

Children photographed their findings, sketched the artefacts and used their historical enquiry  questions and answers to formulate what the artefacts were, who they belonged to and what they might have been used for.

 

All very exciting and Year 3 were brilliant historical detectives!

On Friday 23rd April, award-winning children’s writer Vashti Hardy will be talking to Northgate children in Year 4 about her brilliantly inventive new book ‘Harley Hitch and the Iron Forest’,  

‘Harley Hitch and the Iron Forest’ is a fast-paced, engagingly illustrated fantasy adventure story about a feisty young girl

inventor, the first in a great new series for younger independent readers, aged 7-9. Join Harley, her robot dog Sprocket and best friend Cosmo for problem-solving adventures and mysteries in Inventia, a world where science rules, and technology grows in the forest 

 Vashti’s debut novel ‘Brightstorm’ was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s

Book Prize 2019 and her second novel, Wildspark, won the Blue Peter Book Award 2020. Both perfect for readers aged 8-11. She has also published ‘Darkwhispers’; a follow-up to ‘Brightstorm’, and ‘The Griffin Gate’; a shorter novel for reluctant / dyslexic readers. 

 

This virtual tour has been jointly organised by The Steyning Bookshop and Scholastic Publishers. 

Several of our children are fasting for Ramadan this year, they are doing amazingly well keeping up with their learning in school. 

 

We look forward to celebrating 'Eid' with them as a school on 17th May. 

This week 'Rainbow Theatre' company came to visit our Nursery and Reception children to perform some of their favourite Fairy tale classics!

 

They huffed, and puffed and blew the house down! 

 

The children had a lovely time and it was warmly received by all who took part.