Coding

Today in Year 5 Pine we had a live computing lesson in which we had to follow along from the screen to create a conkers game using coding. We had some technical difficulties with our firewall, however our children demonstrated great resilience as well as excellent listening skills to get Read more…

Computing

Year 5 Pine have made an excellent start to our computing lessons this year. We have been exploring the 2Design and Make function of Purple Mash. Yesterday we designed cars.

Animal research

This week in English we have been using the laptops to help us research our chosen animals ready to write a non chronological report. We have a wide range of animals chosen, from mudskippers to gorillas. The children have spent lots of time finding out interesting facts ready to create Read more…

Arty architecture

This half term Year 5 will be studying architecture. This week our focus was was observational drawing. We used our observational skills to sketch basic house shapes. We had to look closely at the details and we learnt how to use our pencils to help as a guide for size Read more…

Forest school

This week the children really enjoyed the return of our forest school sessions. They had a fun, and very muddy, afternoon exploring the forest school area. They created their own artwork and found the biggest worm we have ever seen 😄