This week we have been celebrating ‘Outdoor Classroom Day’ and thinking about how nature can improve our mental health. The whole school have had a taster session of Forest School. Everyone enjoyed being outside in nature and we have done a range of activities outdoors, despite the rainy weather. Some Read more…
Year 5 had their 5th forest school session today! The children explored the area and found and identified a range of minibeasts. We found snails, worms, centipedes and millipedes. We then discussed how we can improve the area for the fauna and for ourselves. The children then used the skills Read more…
Year 5 had a fantastic time at Forest School today! We showed off our knowledge of the area by playing a game where we had to name the flora in the area. We also learnt about a Ghillie kettle and how they can be used to heat water using fire. Read more…
Year 5 enjoyed their forest school sessions today, despite the wet weather. We started the session by discussing the flora and fauna in the area. Everybody was given a piece of flora and kept it hidden. We then used our language skills to describe the piece of flora to try Read more…
Year 5 had a fantastic time in the forest today. First we used our imaginations and found ‘not sticks’. We had magic pens, broomsticks, bow and arrows, wands, teleportation sticks and many more. The children then made up some fantastic stories to go with their ‘not sticks’. We then found Read more…
Year 5 had a fantastic time on their first forest school session today. We explored the area and discussed the flora and fauna in the area and completed a scavenger hunt. After this, our skill activity this week was using a bow saw and drill to create a forest school Read more…
Thank you for your lovely artwork celebrating World Religion Day 2021. I hope you enjoyed finding out about different religions. You are all so creative and it was so difficult to choose one winner so we chose three. Well done to Logan in Year 6, Autumn in Year 5 and Read more…
World Religion Day is celebrated every January on the third Sunday of the month. The aim of World Religion Day is to promote understanding and peace between all religions, encouraging people to learn about other faiths and their followers. If we were in school, we would be celebrating the religions Read more…
Year 5 have had a fun-filled week this week. At the beginning of the week we had a zoom call with the author and illustrator of a book called ‘Look Up’. The book is about a girl called Rocket, who is fascinated by space and convinces her family to spend Read more…
Year 5 have made some fantastic calendars during art lessons this week. First we thought about warm and cool colours and which colours we associate with different seasons. We then used watercolour paints to create the backgrounds. After this we used lines and patterns to draw symbols of the seasons.