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This afternoon, Y6 enjoyed a drama taster session. We could show off our speaking and acting skills.

Year 6 took advantage of the sunshine this morning, to revise their SPAG knowledge in preparation for next week’s SATs. As well as practising our grammar and punctuation, we also got to work on our map-reading skills and had some exercise at the same time!

We enjoyed using our voices and exploring poems. 

We enjoyed measuring capacity using cubes, soil and water.

We had fun measuring the mass of objects and comparing them.

This afternoon, we were investigating axels for our new DT topic on vehicles. The children were given some materials and had to work out how to make a moving vehicle. It was tricky but we managed to make some good ones. We will use this knowledge to design and make our own vehicles later this…

We had a fantastic history day today learning about the Ancient Egyptians. All morning we had a workshop with Professor Tuesday, who is an expert in Egyptology. She told us about the importance of the River Nile, some of her favourite pharaohs, the timeline of Ancient Egypt and, of course, all…

We have had a really fun afternoon learning all about the ancient Greeks. Professor Tuesday told us all about the different city-states and we acted out key parts of each one. We also made a human timeline showing the main periods of history during the Ancient Greek times. She then gave us lots of…

 The children looked outside for things that grow. They found lots of plants and flowers and used the IPad to take their own photos.

Our new topic is all about things that grow. We are learning the rhyme “Mary, Mary, quite contrary.” We used natural materials to make a garden we would like to grow.

On Monday we had a lovely afternoon with our Year 5 buddies. Lambs came to visit us at school, we got to feed them some milk and learn all about them. 

Our first day in summer at the field! For our second lesson of athletics we walked down to the field to practice our long distance running, jumping and push throwing!