In todays RE lesson we investigated the betrayal of Jesus in the Easter story. We discussed what betrayal means, how it might make us feel and examples of betrayals that we might have experienced. The children discussed the role of Judas and how he wasn’t a good friend to Jesus. Read more…
This week for careers week we have linked our English lessons with our history topic of ‘Changing Britain’. We have investigated the life of a local hero, Emmeline Pankhurst. The children have had brilliant discussions about the impact Emmeline’s actions have had on Britain and future generations of women and Read more…
This half term we’re learning about installation art. During todays lesson we investigated the explosive artwork of Cai Guo-Qiang. We looked at the techniques used to create the explosive effects he used and created our own scaled down version of an art installation. We used mixed media such as paint, Read more…
Today Year 5 completed our stuffed toys. The children have worked ready hard during this unit and and created some brilliant toys. Lots of the children initially found the sewing aspect difficult but persevered and should be very proud of themselves. Well done Year 5!
This half term we are designing and creating our own stuffed toys. The children have been working really hard on deciding the theme and shapes they will need and choosing and cutting the right fabrics pieces. This week we have practised using a blanket stitch. Next week we will be Read more…
This half term we are answering the big question ‘If God is everywhere, why go to a place of worship?’. During todays lesson we investigated Hinduism and the similarities and differences between worshipping at home or at a Mandir. The children really enjoyed learning about a different religion and looking Read more…
This half term Year 5 Juniper have reached their 500 dojo target (we actually doubled this) and so deserved a treat. Today we spent the afternoon in Queens Park having fun and drinking hot chocolate which was kindly donated by Queens Park Cafe. The children had a great time. We Read more…
This week in RE Year 5 have been discussing what it means to be generous. We listened to the story of Jesus and Zacchaeus and discussed how Jesus was able to turn Zacchaeus into a generous person. The children discussed how generosity isn’t just amount how much money a person Read more…
This week was our last week for Cookery Club so we’ve ended with a Christmas Rocky Road. This was really easy and lots of fun to make and of course tasted delicious. The children enjoyed sampling the sweets and chocolates whilst they were making the rocky road too.
This week may be the favourite week yet. We have made sausage rolls using: sausage meat, apple sauce, sage, egg, poppy seeds and pastry. The children had fun squeezing out the sausage meat then stirring in the apple and sage. We shaped the sausagemeat into a log across the pastry Read more…