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Today we started our Bible Explorer sessions with Sutty and Ruth from ‘Sports Reach’ and ‘Walk Through the Bible’. As part of our Bible topic in RE, they are teaching us some of the key stories from the Old Testament. Today we learnt about the story of creation, Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden,…

Having missed out on their Bible Explorers sessions last year due to COVID, Year 6 welcomed Richard and Ruth from Sportsreach into class today, to begin their 5 week walk through the Old Testament. Beginning in Genesis with creation, we acted out some of the stories and learnt some simple signs…

After being rained off at the end of last term, Year 5 and 6 managed to hold their Intrasports competition this afternoon. The event was planned and run by our Sports Captains and involved using the skills we had learnt in our PE lessons last term. The activities included rugby passing skills,…

The First Aid training is well underway.

We made plasticine reliefs of our faces in art this week.  Do you think they look like us?

Today we were investigating whether gas weighs anything. We had a selection of fizzy drinks and we weighed them. Then we shook them to make them go flat and released the gas out of them, which is called carbon dioxide. We weighed them again to see if they were lighter and they were, which proved…

We have been discussing what makes drinks fizzy and learnt that a gas called carbon dioxide is added to drinks. A man called Joseph Priestley invented the carbonation process to create fizzy drinks. We put raisins into a glass of lemonade and watched them dance. Bubbles of carbon dioxide…

Following our work on the artist Arcimboldo, we used real fruit to make fruit faces. 

We have enjoyed exploring the sense of taste this week. We had to guess the range of fruit and vegetables and whether we liked it or not. It was lovely to see the children trying different foods and some children found out they actually liked it ! 

We have been discussing the artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo. We have been looking at his work and recreating it. Then we had fun making our own !