In English today, we moved onto our new topic which is surrounding biographies and non-chronological texts. The first text we looked at today was a biography written about Jane Goodall and her journey through her life from getting her first chimpanzee teddy, to working with primates in the jungle. The Read more
Today in our Art topic, Year 5 Juniper created their own installation art pieces. Installation art is using three dimensional art that aims to transform a particular place. The children used items within the classroom to create their own pieces. We had a variety of different artworks created including a Read more
In our Science topic for this half term, we are looking at Earth and Space. In last weeks lesson, the children were really interested in finding out about our planet and our solar system. For lesson 2, we started by looking at the celestial bodies of our solar system and Read more
For week 2 of STEM Club, we were making and testing toothpaste! The children were sent a letter from The Bright Smile Toothpaste Company asking them to make and test their new recipe of toothpaste. The children followed their recipe and mixed their ingredients together well, adding colouring if they Read more
The children had their first brass lesson last week with Mr Lewis. The children are learning to play a cornet and had their introductory session. They really enjoyed it and are already looking forward to their next session! We have some fantastic musicians ready to flourish in these lessons! Well Read more
Year 5 Juniper had their forest school session yesterday with Miss Brown. They explored the forest and carried out different exercises. These included a trust exercise where they had to form groups of 6 and work together creating an assault course. They had to walk through the course to get Read more
Year 5 enjoyed their end of the year Christmas party today. The children had lots of fun enjoying playing games in the hall with Pine class – we played heads shoulders knees and cups, musical statues, best dancer, pass the parcel. After the activities in the hall, Juniper had a Read more
In our science topic this half term, Year 5 have been looking at the properties of materials. In our final lesson of the topic today, we carried out an experiment to see if we could create an irreversible change and create a new material. We filled plastic bottles with different Read more
Throughout the day today, the children have taken on a challenge! They have to create a new society on a different moon – Operation Moonbase. The children were able to use all of the skills from our skills builder program to get to their end result. Session 1: Lift off Read more
In our science topic, we have been looking at properties and changes. Year 5 carried out an experiment to test thermal conductivity. The children had 4 cups per group and wrapped each one in a different material – aluminium foil, bubble wrap and newspaper. The children’s cups were then filled Read more