15 Jun

Year 6 Bakery!

Year 6 classroom was turned into a bakery this afternoon, as we all worked on our pastry making skills. We measured out our ingredients then learnt how to rub the fat into the flour to create short crust pastry. Ideally, pastry should be made in cool conditions but it was certainly not cool in our…

14 Jun

Painting our Clay Flowers

We enjoyed painting our clay flowers today. 

14 Jun

Great Fire of London Art

Just look at the fabulous artwork that we have created inspired by the Great Fire of London.  We worked hard over several weeks to slowly build up these dioramas.

14 Jun

A few more Great Fire of London dioramas

Lots of time and effort went in to create this fabulous artwork.  Well done Year 2!

14 Jun

Composing

This afternoon, we went out into the playground to do some composing.

 

14 Jun

Investigating micro-habitats

In science we are learning about living things and their habitats. Last week we learnt about the characteristics of all living organisms by meeting ‘MRS GREN’ (Movement, Respiration, Sensing, Growth, Reproduction, Excretion and Nutrition). We also made our own sorting diagrams using categories…

13 Jun

Year 4 English

Year 4 children were practising their play script Atishoo in the shade. It was so hot in the classroom so we tried to find a little bit of breeze! After learning about the features of a play script and comparing these to a novel the children started rehearsing. The first scene involves two…

12 Jun

Anyone for Cricket?!

Today 10 of us from Year 5 took part in a school cricket tournament at Torrisholme Cricket Club.  Although it was a very hot day everyone was full of energy and enthusiasm throughout.  We had not played cricket together as a team before and so it was a brilliant opportunity to develop skills such…

12 Jun

Year 6 climb high at Salt Ayre

Year 6 spent the afternoon at Salt Ayre Sports Centre, having a go on their exciting indoor climbing wall, alongside some other activities in the sports hall. A great time was had by all!


 

9 Jun

Investigating Shadows

Using a torch as our Sun, we recreated a day and worked out where our shadow would be and what size our shadow was. 

 

9 Jun

Learning about polygons

In maths, we have been learning about the properties of a polygon and then sorting them further into regular and irregular polygons. We have worked practically making polygons using up to 10 matchsticks. We were then set a task of using only 6 equilateral triangles to make a quadrilateral, a…

9 Jun

Movement of the Earth, Sun and Moon

In Science we have been learning about the movement of the Earth and the Moon around the Sun. We found out that the Sun stays still and does not move. The Earth orbits the Sun in an anti-clockwise direction. At the same time as it is orbiting it is also spinning on its own axis. The moon orbits…