We have been working hard to design our Christmas cards. We know it is early but on Wednesday 20th October the Christmas card designs will be sent home. These designs can then be made into cards, gift labels, mugs, wrapping paper, or books. You will have up until the 1st of November to place your orders at home and return the orders form and designs to school. Only parents who have placed orders need to return the Read more
We used a paper plate to recreate our own designs of Clarice Cliffs ‘Circle Tree’ plate, we used bright colours to paint circles and finishing by using black paint and a straw to blow a tree design.
This afternoon, Maple have been learning about the digestive system. We watched Mrs Grindrod show us how our teeth and saliva mashed up some banana and biscuit. We learnt how the food travels down our oesophagus and into our stomach. Read one of our letters to ‘Mr Toilet’ to find out what happens next!
On Friday, the whole school recognised and celebrated World Mental Health day by taking part in Hello Yellow to raise money for the fantastic Young Minds charity. The children came to school dressed in yellow, listened to assemblies that taught them about mental health, and took part in a range of activities to support good mental health. Many of the activities linked to the ‘5 ways to well-being’ which are Connect, Be active, Give, Take Read more
During our Art lesson we used a compass to draw the flower of life.
Year 5 had a fabulous time at forest school this week. First we thought about how science is all around us and we thought about the amazing job that scientists do. We thought about environmental scientists and the jobs they do to protect our planet. We then explored the area and invented tools that would help environmental scientists. After this some children created their own mixtures using natural resources and then challenged each other to Read more
Maple have been learning about the art of persuasion in English! We began by reading a letter addressed to David Walliams, which was trying to convince him to visit our school and help us with our reading. We worked really hard to pick out all of the persuasive language and persuasive features of the letter. We organised the text and matched it with the correct features.
In history, we have been leaving about Christopher Columbus. We had to ‘explore’ the playground to find out facts about his life. We had to search for pictures of his ship to help answer questions. We worked really well together to find all of the answers.
Since returning to school, Year 5 have been producing some fantastic writing based on an animated clip named ‘The present’. So far in our writing, a computer game obsessed Ben, has just received a special gift from his mum. When Ben opens the gift he is surprised to find a puppy. To help us with our vocabulary, including boomtastics and fantastics, we have had various experience sessions. We played computer games and outdoor games and Read more
In Art today, the children had to trace an imagine from our current English book ‘ The Incredible Book Eating Boy’ into one square of a quadrant, they then continued flipping and tracing into the next square of the quadrant until the ‘flip pattern’ was complete. The results looked amazing!