Blog Author: Mrs Redmayne

We have been investigating The Highwayman poem in literacy and discussing who was to blame to the death of Bess the landlord’s daughter. Our chief suspects are Tim the ostler, The Highwayman, Bess herself and the Red-Coat soldiers.  In groups we wrote formal, persuasive speeches to try to persuade…

In Year 4 we have been learning about the Roman invasion of Britain in 43AD. We worked in groups of “Celts” to “spy”on the Roman army and report back to our fellow Celts. We looked at their armour and also the way they trained and practised battle manoeuvres. They looked pretty…

We have been learning about Jesus as a teacher and in particular the stories he told. Today we looked at different parables in our groups and acted them out for the rest of the class. We looked at the Parable of the Great Feast, the Parable of the Prodigal Son, the Parable of the Unforgiving…

We have been exploring the classic poem The Highwayman in both literacy and dance. Today we focused on the character of the Highwayman himself and used dance to communicate his journey across the dark, windswept moors.  We have been working hard to include different dance elements such as travel,…

We have been exploring different characters from The Highwayman poem.  Today we had the chance to interview both Bess and The Highwayman himself!  He was quite a charming and funny character, and we learnt a lot about his past...

In Year 5, we have been exploring Alfred Noyes' famous narrative poem The Highwayman.  We have enjoyed acting out some of the scenes using freeze frames. Today we planned a retelling of the poem from the point of view of one of its characters. We tried to use vocabulary from the poem to create a…

In geography have been learning about the physical and human features of different countries.  In pairs we chose a country and researched it using books and the internet. We had to show the flag of each country as well.  We presented our information for a display.

In our history this half-term, we have been learning about the amazing Maya civilisation and this week we have been investigating primary sources and artefacts. Today we tried to trick our classmates in a game of Call My Bluff! Each group was given an artefact to investigate and had to write…

In RE we have been investigating the Christmas story.  We drew pictures of all the things and people we thought might have been at the first Christmas. We then investigated the Bible sources in the gospels of Matthew and Luke.
 

Can you work out which things from our list were mentioned in the…

In maths we have been learning about different types of numbers - ask anyone in Year 5 if you fancy hearing the famous Prime Number Rap!  Today it was... cube numbers.

We had lots of fun making the different cube numbers out of multilink. 1x1x1 was quite easy (needing only 1 multilink!)…

We are learning the names of fruits in French and then we will learn how to describe the fruits and give our opinions of them.  Today we played a dice and counter game linked to fruits.  We had to speak in French all the time.  It wasn't easy but we had fun!

In Year 5 we have been investigating persuasive writing.  We have read lots of examples and written our own persuasive leaflets.  Now we are preparing for a class debate.  Today we were given the topics for our debates:   

        It is wrong to spend billions of pounds on space…