29 Sep

Geography Field Work

Today Year 4 braved the weather (we had rain, wind, sunshine and a bit of hail!) to do our geography!  We have been learning about field work and today we did some of our own linked to our topic of "The Local Area".  We learnt that geographers carry out surveys to get information and so we did a…

27 Sep

NISCU Big Bible Lesson Year 5

Today Debbie from NISCU came to teach us about the Bible using her very own Big Bible!  It was full of things to help us understand why the Bible is so important to Christians.  We thought about lots of different stories and characters in the Bible (well done Henry and Reuben who thought of some…

16 Jul

Sports Day with Year 6

We had a gloriously sunny day today for our Year 5 and 6 Sports Day at the field.  We held a variety of races: sprints, hurdles, egg and spoon and, of course, the infamous long-distance!  There was a fantastic atmosphere of excitement and competitiveness but we were most impressed by the way that…

14 Jun

Creating Vomit in Science (Trigger warning!)

Today we learnt all about the digestive system and in particular the stomach.  We learnt that sometimes the stomach needs to get rid of food that could be harmful to the body.  Trigger warning!  Do not watch the video if you are squeamish!

 

 

25 May

Visit to Beacon Fell (or was it to Kensuke's Kingdom?)

Today we went on our first class trip since the COVID outbreak.   Hurrah!!  We travelled to Beacon Fell and learnt all about how to survive in the wild.  We have been reading Kensuke's Kingdom in school and had already picked up some great survival tips from that.  We found out more about how best…

20 Apr

Play Leaders!

Today we had our final session of Play Leaders Training with Scott and Greg. We have been learning about how to teach younger children to play new games at breaktimes and lunchtimes and we cannot wait to get going now.  We have learnt how to organise and manage different games and have had to…

19 Mar

Place Value Jewellery in Year 5!

We have been learning about decimal place value this week.  We cut up a straw (our "whole")  into tenths to make necklaces.  We then cut up a tenth piece into hundredths to make hundredth bracelets, and a few of us managed to persist with dividing a hundredth into thousandths to make earrings! …

15 Mar

World Book Day Fun in Year 6

We had a great week back together celebrating World Book Day.  Here we are in our costumes!  Can you work out which book characters we were dressed as?

 

 

15 Mar

World Book Day in Y5

We had a great time when we celebrated World Book Day in school.  Can you work out which book characters we are from our costumes?

 

 

3 Dec

Maya Artefacts Workshop

Today we had a historian from the museum service who taught us all about Maya artefacts.  We got to handle and discuss the objects and tried to work out what they were, what they were used for and what they taught us about the Maya people. 

 

 

5 Mar

African Batiks

As part of our Africa topic we have designed and made batiks using images from African animals. First of all we painted melted wax onto cotton squares and then painted on our colour dyes. They look great! 

 

3 Mar

Year 6 World Book Day

On Tuesday 3rd March, we celebrated World Book Day.  Can you work out which book characters we came as? We started the day with an assembly and then designed our own book feet for a whole school display. We began to decorate our classroom door as the cover of the book we have started reading, The…