Blog Author: Mrs Dowson

Today we started our new topic in geography: Europe! We looked at the countries in each part of Europe (Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western) and tried to memorise some of their names and locations. Some, like Italy and Greece had very obvious shapes but others were much harder! We also learnt…

We worked with Mikey and Jenny to learn about our Lancashire Heritage using music and dance. We danced the jig, the reel, the horn pipe, the waltz and the march. We had lots of fun. 

Today we have been learning to dance to traditional Lancashire music played on a fiddle. 

Today in Art we looked at the work of Frida Kahlo, a Mexican painter who is famous for her self portraits. We found out a little about her life and learned how hard it had been. 
We tried to find adjectives to describe her painting, Self-Portrait with Monkeys,  before creating our own monkeys as…

Today we made and evaluated our musical instruments to complete our DT topic. 

We used our plans to create our instruments. We helped each other out and had lots of fun. Our instruments all made a sound and some of us even managed to create an instrument that we could change the pitch of, this…

Ladybirds are looking for somewhere warm to spend the winter.

Today in Science we have been investigating how to make the perfect string telephone. 

We used different sized cups, made from different materials and then tested wool, string and thread in different lengths and thicknesses. 

In pairs, we decided which of our string telephones was the best…

Today we met with our Reception buddies to read, sing, sign and act out Nursery Rhymes to celebrate National Poetry Day. We had a lot of fun even though the weather was miserable.

Today, Debbie from NISCU brought her very large bible to school to talk to us about all the different things the bible contains.

This week the finals of The Great Scotforth Bake Off took place in Year 5. The challenge - to design and make their own showstopper bread roll.

Unfortunately Paul and Mary were unavailable so judging was passed on to Miss Huddleston.

Paul Hollywood has nothing on Year 5! We have been baking bread as part of our Design and Technology work.